Privacy Policy
Overview
Every time you use our products or visit our websites some information about you may be collected. Please review the following Privacy Policy for our products and websites.
Information We Collect
When using our products and/or when visiting our websites, some non-personally identifiable information may be collected. Examples of this information include the internet address from which you are connecting and the type and version of the operating system and web browser you are using.
When signing up on our websites and/or when you participate in our dicussion forums, we may also collect personally identifiable information. Examples of this information include your name and email address.
Other forms of personally identifiable information that we may collect include information you send to our servers. An example of this type of information include your postings in our discussion forums.
Both the non-personally identifiable and personally identifiable information are together referred to as 'collected information' in the remainder of this privacy policy.
How We Use this Information
We may use the collected information about you to improve our products and websites and to help us provide a better user experience. This information, when combined with the information of our other users, in the aggregate, will allow us to analyze product and website usage.
We may use your internet address, along with your screen name to show your regional location on a publically-accessible map of the world. The location information disclosed to the public is limited to the estimated city, state, and country where your internet connection originates.
We may use the collected information to contact you. This could occur for many reasons, such as when we respond to your product or website inquiry. This could also occur when we need to notify you about product changes, system outages, or security-related events that we believe may be of interest to you.
We may disclose this collected information in response to legal processes, for example, when directed by a court order or subpeona. This information may also be disclosed to law enforcement officials when requested, or when we feel doing so would assist in the prevention of illegal activities, physical harm to people or animals, or violations to our product licenses or terms of use.
We may transfer this collected information if one or more of our business units is acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company. However, that company must also protect this collected information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We will not transfer or disclose your personally-identifiable to other companies for their marketing or other business ventures, except as when noted otherwise in this Privacy Policy.
While we will take appropriate measures at preventing unwanted disclosure of this collected information, we cannot assure you that this collected information will never be disclosed in such a way that this Privacy Policy is violated.
Cookies
Our websites use "cookies" to store information onto your computer. This information may contain collected information that you have already provided to us. Generally, only users that signup with an account on our website will have personally-identifiable information stored in the cookies.
Cookies are used to provide a better website experience and in some circumstances may eliminate the need to login to our website during return visits.
Most web browsers provide a method for removing cookies from your computer.
Third-Party Sites
Our products and websites may contain links to third-party websites, such as advertisements from our sponsors. While these third-party links show up in your browser and appear to be part of our website, they are not ours and do not originate from our servers. These third-party websites may collect information about you, may store cookies on your computer, or may use other methods to collect and/or store information about you. These third-party sites have their own privacy policy and are not covered by our Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy you can contact us at [email protected].
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review this Privacy Policy often.
Last Revised NOVEMBER 2016