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Comanity - Privacy Policy
At Comanity, we are committed to protecting your privacy as
described below. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") discloses
the privacy practices for the Comanity website, located at www.Comanity.com.
Except as otherwise discussed in this Policy, this document
only addresses the collection, use, and disclosure of information
that we (i.e., Comanity and its agents) collect from you on
this site. Other sites that are not owned or controlled by Comanity
may have their own privacy policies that apply to those sites.
In addition, certain third-party offerings that are made via
the Comanity website are subject to the terms of third-party
privacy policies and the terms of this Policy shall not apply.
We encourage you to ask questions, to review the privacy policies
of other sites, and to be very cautious before you disclose
your personally identifiable information to other sites.
For a fuller discussion of our privacy practices, please see
the Frequently Asked Questions ("FAQ") below. This
Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of our
Terms of Use Agreement and is subject to modification at any
time without your prior consent. You are responsible for reviewing
the Policy each time before using our website or providing any
personal information. If you have questions or concerns regarding
this statement, please contact us via e-mail at company@Comanity.com.
If you believe we have violated the Policy, please notify us,
and we will promptly investigate and try to remedy the problem.
Listing and Links to Frequently Asked Questions
1. What information do we collect from you?
2. Where do we collect information from you?
3. How do we use the personal information we collect
from you?
4. Who is collecting information?
5. With whom do we share your information?
6. What are my choices regarding collection, use,
and distribution of my information?
7. How can I update, correct, or delete my personally
identifiable information?
8. What security precautions are in place to protect
the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
9. What about the privacy of visitors who are 13
and under?
10. What are cookies and how do they collect,
use, and distribute information?
11. Where can I find any changes to the Privacy
Policy?
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What information do we collect from you?
We collect information via the website that falls into one of
two categories: personally identifiable information and aggregated
information. Personally identifiable information is information
that is actually used to identify you. We collect personally
identifiable information whenever you voluntarily submit it
to the website, including your name, e-mail, company, mailing
address, title, area of expertise, telephone number, and credit
card information, plus your preferences regarding Comanity products
(collectively, "personally identifiable information").
Aggregated information is information that is not directly tied
to a specific user, such as the number of people who visit the
website from various states. We collect and store statistics
and other information about the online activities of our visitors
on an aggregated (i.e., collective) basis. For example, we track
the number of people who view each page, the order in which
pages are viewed, and other information to learn which features
are the most popular and to refine our design and marketing
efforts. Aggregated information also includes information that
indirectly (i.e., combined with information collected about
you off the website) could be used to identify you, but in practice
is not
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2. Where do we collect information from you?
Comanity gathers information in the following ways:
Software
Downloads: When you download any of our free software from
our website, we may collect and use certain personally identifiable
information (e.g., the software you selected, your planned use
for the software) for use by Comanity.
View
a Video: When you view a video, we may keep a record of
what videos were viewed for use by Comanity.
Purchases:
When you make a purchase, we keep track of what you bought,
along with other personal and product information (such as payment,
shipping, and warranty data).
Newsletters
& Promotional E-mails: From time to time, we may offer
free electronic newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service
to our registered users, based on a voluntary subscription.
If you sign up, we will send you newsletters and e-mails periodically
listing industry news, industry events, product information,
and other promotions. You will only receive a newsletter if
you have requested it during registration or directly from our
signup form. To stop receiving our newsletter, send an e-mail
to us at company@Comanity.com.
Webmaster
Lists: If you are a webmaster and send us an e-mail, we
will collect your e-mail address.
Chat
Rooms and Bulletin Boards: From time to time, we may make
chat rooms and bulletin boards available to registered users.
Please remember that postings to bulletin boards and chat rooms
become public information; thus, you should exercise caution
when deciding to disclose personally identifiable information
within such forums, as it may be collected and used by third
parties.
Search
Terms: From time to time, we may offer the ability for you
to search our website for information that interests you. We
may save those search terms and display certain banner ads tied
to your search term.
Online
Surveys and Polling: If you participate in an online survey
or interactive poll, we may ask you for your e-mail address
and your preferences in order to track voting.
EEE-Postcards:
From time to time, we may offer you the ability to send an e-postcard,
or e-mail, to your friends containing content or links to our
site or to content that you think your friends would find interesting.
In order to do this, we must collect the user names and e-mail
addresses of your friends.
Contact
Information & Third-Party Data: If you contact Comanity
by e-mail or letter, we may keep a record of your personal correspondence.
Thus, if you report a problem with our website, we may collect
such information in a file specific to you. Moreover, if you
contact us through our feedback area, we require your name and
e-mail address in order to send you a reply. Additionally, if
other users or third parties send us correspondence about your
activities or postings on our site, we may keep the information
in a file specific to you.
Browsing:
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to
your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web
servers and ad servers to identify your computer. Comanity collects
IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to gather
broad demographic information, to enable ads to be served on
our site, to report aggregated information to our advertisers,
for security purposes, and to monitor the level of activity
on our site.
Cookies:
Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a computer
serving our web pages or ads to your computer during a browsing
session. The cookies are typically stored on your computer's
hard drive and are used by websites to simulate a continuous
connection to that site. To learn more about our use of cookies,
click here.
Clear
GIFs: Clear GIFs, which are sometimes called "web bugs,"
are invisible graphic images embedded in one or more web pages
on this site. Comanity (and in the future, its banner ad servers)
use clear GIFs to get a better idea of the types of users who
visit our site and their personal preferences. When you access
a page with a clear GIF, a message is sent to our server, the
server of one of our banner ad servers, or the server of a consultant
who does data analysis for Comanity. The message identifies
the IP address of the computer that fetched the clear GIF, the
URL of the page where the clear GIF is located, the URL of the
clear GIF, the date and time the clear GIF was received, the
type of browser that fetched the clear GIF, and a previously
set cookie value.
Banner
Advertisements: In the future, we may include banner advertisements
on our website. If you click upon a banner advertisement displayed
on our website, you will leave our website (unless, of course,
the banner is to another page of our website). In cases where
clicking on a banner takes you to a third-party site, if you
later disclose personally identifiable information on that site,
the third party may be able to tie that information to the banner
ads and pages you were viewing on our website.
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3. How do we use the personal information we
collect from you?
Operation of the Website and E-mail: The aggregated and personally
identifiable information we collect from you is used to operate
and enhance our website. We collect personally identifiable
information in order to learn more about you so we can provide
you with content, products, and advertising that you are more
likely to find interesting. Comanity also uses registered user
information to contact users when necessary and to send promotional
e-mails.
Tracking Website Pages Viewed: Demographic and profile data
is also collected via our website. We monitor the actions of
visitors to our website to determine what our users find interesting.
Comanity does research on our users' and visitors' demographics,
interests, and behavior based on the information provided to
us during browsing, upon registration, during a promotion, from
our server log files, or from surveys. We will use this data
to tailor the visitor's experience on our website, to improve
our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze website usage
patterns, to improve our content and product offerings, and
to customize our website's content, layout, and services.
Advertisements: From time to time, we may display advertisements.
Aggregated information is used to sell and deliver advertising.
We may disclose aggregated information about our website to
third parties, including informing our advertisers whether their
advertisement was effective. By knowing a little about you,
we will be able to deliver more relevant advertisements and
content to you in the form of targeted banners, industry event
and news services, and e-mail promotions. For example, advertisers
may give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience
they want to reach (e.g., computer programmers with expertise
in Java™ applications). We could then take the advertisement
and display it to users and visitors who meet those criteria.
In this process, the advertiser will not have direct access
to individual account information; only we have access to individuals'
accounts. We may share this aggregated data with advertisers,
but we will only develop summary reports (not about individuals)
for our advertisers.
Agents:
We also may share your personally identifiable information with
third parties for the purposes of providing services to our
website or to Comanity itself.
Merchants:
Except as disclosed in this Policy, we will not share personally
identifiable information about our users with other merchants
and third parties without your permission.
E-mailings:
We will send registered users e-mail containing information
we think they will find interesting, such as information about
news, new products and services from our selected partners.
It is our policy not to send messages to members who have asked
us not to do so. By using our website, you expressly agree to
receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these
communications, you have the ability to opt out. Please see
the "What are my choices regarding collection, use, and
distribution of my information?" section below.
Cookies:
Our website and third-party ad servers use cookies for marketing
purposes in order to make sure you do not see the same ads repeatedly
and to track in the aggregate the pages on our site visited
by our users. We also use a shopping cart cookie to keep track
of items you selected until you check out or delete the items.
To learn more about our use of cookies, click here. Clear GIFs:
Our website and third-party ad servers use clear GIFs for marketing
purposes in order to make sure you do not see the same ads repeatedly
and to track in the aggregate the pages of our site visited
by our users, as well as the types of users visiting those pages.
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4. Who is collecting information?
Co-branded Services: When you are on the Comanity website and
are asked for personally identifiable information, you are sharing
that information with us alone, unless it is specifically stated
otherwise or as discussed in this Policy. However, some website
services are offered in conjunction with a partner company.
In order to provide a co-branded service to you, it is necessary
for us to share your personally identifiable information with
our partner company. If you do not want your data to be shared,
you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using our service.
Promotions, Contests, and Sweepstakes: Promotions that run on
the website may be sponsored by Comanity and another company.
Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared
with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified
prior to the time of data collection or transfer (for example,
in the terms and conditions of a contest). You can decide not
to participate in the promotion if you do not want your data
to be shared.
Links and Banner Ads to Third-Party Sites: Please be aware that
sites on our website may contain links to other sites on the
Internet that are owned and operated by third parties. The information
practices of those websites linked to our website are not covered
by this Policy. These other sites may send their own cookies
to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. Additionally,
other companies or ad servers that place advertising on our
website may collect information about you through the use of
cookies or clear GIFs when you view or click on their advertising.
We cannot control this collection of information. You should
contact advertisers directly if you have any questions about
their use of the information they collect.
Ad Servers: From time to time, we may use third-party advertising
services to serve banner advertisements on our website. In order
to ensure you do not see the same advertisement repeatedly,
for any page on which we display banner ads, they may place
a cookie on your computer's hard drive. Your computer will receive
these cookies, which contain a unique but anonymous tracking
number, unless you set your browser to refuse them. They will
collect information from visitors to our site regarding the
URLs from which they came; their IP addresses; domain types
(e.g., .com); browser type; operating system; the country, state,
and telephone area code where their servers are located; the
products and pages of our site that visitors viewed during their
visit; time and date particular ads were served; and banner
ads clicked upon. To learn more about the information our ad
server collects, click here link to no. 10
Framing/Windows to Third-Party Sites: In addition to providing
links to other websites, we sometimes window third-party sites
for your convenience. If you click to learn more information,
a window or frame containing the third party's site may appear.
Any time you are in a window (unless the window is another part
of the Comanity website), you should assume your personal information
is being collected, used, and disclosed in accordance with the
windowed site's policies.
Chat Rooms and Bulletin Boards: Except as otherwise expressly
discussed in this Policy, this document only addresses the use
and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you participate
in chat rooms or message boards, your user name will be displayed
with your comment or posting. Information you provide while
using services such as website chat rooms and bulletin boards
is available for all to see; discretion should be used in disclosing
personally identifiable information within such forums, as it
may be collected by third parties. We encourage you to ask questions
and to be very cautious before you disclose your personally
identifiable information to others.
Surveys and Polling: From time to time, we may use a third party
to conduct surveys about our website or polls about a particular
issue. If we do, we will either tell you in advance who that
third party is, or obtain their promise that personally identifiable
information will not be used or further shared with anyone outside
of Comanity.
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5. With whom do we share your information?
Merchants: Other than as disclosed in this Policy or with your
permission, we will not share your personally identifiable information
with merchants. If you do give permission to share your information,
you should know that once your personally identifiable information
is shared with third parties, we cannot control how it is used
or who else it may be shared with.
Fulfillment: Some online activities necessarily lead to disclosure
of your personally identifiable information to third parties,
such as when you include your name and e-mail address in an
e-mail to a third party or when you order merchandise in the
shopping areas of our website for direct shipment to you. For
example, in order to fulfill certain product orders, we must
share your information with the product manufacturer, payment
processor (e.g., credit card companies), and shippers.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected through the
website may be provided to an outside company for the purpose
of analysis. This analysis is to help us to improve our sites
and services to you, and to notify you of special offers that
may be of interest to you.
Chat Profile, Chat Rooms, and Bulletin Boards: It is important
to note that information you provide as part of your chat profile
is not confidential and is accessible by the public. Similarly,
any information you provide in chat rooms, message boards, or
other public forums is not confidential. For such activities,
a separate warning may not be provided. Your choice to disclose
personally identifiable information in these cases is voluntary.
Ad servers and Advertisers: Our ad servers will have permission
to use their cookies' identification numbers to serve ads on
our site and to collect aggregated information to create statistics
about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site
information to third-party advertisers. However, these statistics
will not include personally identifying information.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Although
it is unlikely, we may be required by law enforcement or judicial
authorities to provide personally identifiable information to
the appropriate governmental authorities. If we receive such
a request, without prior notice to you we will disclose personally
identifiable information upon receipt of a court order subpoena,
to investigate hacking attempts, or to cooperate with a law
enforcement investigation. If we receive a subpoena as part
of third-party civil litigation, we will attempt to provide
you with electronic notice (i.e., via e-mail) fourteen (14)
days prior to disclosure of personally identifiable information.
Moreover, we may release account information without notice
to you when we in good faith believe such release is reasonably
necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Service Agreement
or to protect the rights, property, computer security, and safety
of our website, our users, or others.
Sale of the Company: You agree that we may assign, sell, license,
or otherwise transfer to a third party your name, address, e-mail
address, member name, and any other personally identifiable
information collected by us via the website in connection with
an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition
of a portion or all of the assets or stock of Comanity or its
affiliated entities.
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6. What are my choices regarding collection,
use, and distribution of my information?
E-mail and Promotional Mailings: We may from time to time send
you e-mail or other communications regarding our products and
services. If you do not wish to receive these promotional mailings,
the website provides users the opportunity to opt out of receiving
these communications by sending an e-mail to company@Comanity.com.
After that, Comanity users will not receive future communications
or mailings.
Cookies: If you are uncomfortable with the idea of cookies,
we recommend disabling cookie support in your browser. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits;
however, if you do, you may not be able to use certain services
or take advantage of the personalized features of our website.
Additionally, it is possible that some areas of the website
will not function properly if you set your browser to refuse
cookies. You will need cookies for customizable areas of the
site, such as message boards and chat rooms. To learn more about
our use of cookies, click here.
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7. How can I update, correct, or delete my personally
identifiable information?
Website Services: Comanity provides you with a limited ability
to access and edit the personally identifiable information you
have provided to us. Following registration you can review,
change, or delete the information you have submitted. We encourage
you to update your information promptly if it changes. To change,
modify, or delete the information you previously provided, visit
the registration page on our site or send an e-mail to company@Comanity.com.
Chat and Bulletin Board Postings: You cannot change or remove
any public postings made on our bulletin boards.
E-mailing and Newsletters: The website also gives users options
for removing their information from our database so they will
not receive future communications or receive our service any
longer. Users can send an e-mail to company@Comanity.com.
Reviews/Correct/Update: We provide users the ability to reviewing
and modify information previously provided by the creation of
a new user profile and deletion (unsubscribe) of the incorrect
profile.
No Comprehensive Deletions: We will retain in our files information
you have requested to remove if that information is necessary
to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, or enforce our Terms
of Service Agreement. Except as noted, upon request we will
delete your information from our databases. However, due to
the fact that we "back up" the data stored on our
systems, such prior information is never completely removed
from our databases. Therefore, you should not expect that all
of your personally identifiable information will be completely
removed from our backed-up databases in response to your requests.
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8. What security precautions are in place to
protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
You can be assured that your personal and account information
is reasonably secure on our website. We employ encryption technology
in all parts of our website that require you to provide your
financial or credit card information. The personally identifiable
information we collect is stored in secure operating environments
that are not available to the public. Credit card information
is encrypted. All the information we collect and store is protected
by our firewall. Also, any information we store at our business
is kept physically secure, and only designated employees may
obtain access to it. However, "perfect security" does
not exist on the Internet.
While we strive to protect your personally identifiable information,
we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us or from our online products or services,
and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
we make reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
We cannot fully ensure that your private communications and
other personally identifiable information will not be inadvertently
disclosed to third parties. We may be forced to disclose information
to the government or third parties under certain circumstances,
or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions
or private communications. If we need to investigate or resolve
possible problems or inquiries, we can (and you authorize us
to) disclose any information about you to private entities,
law enforcement, or other government officials as we, in our
sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.
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9. What about the privacy of visitors who are
13 and under?
If you are under the age of 13, you do not have permission to
use our website. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose
personally identifiably information about users who are under
the age of 13. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor
under 13 years of age and believe they have disclosed personally
identifiable information to this website, please contact us
at company@Comanity.com
so that we may delete the minor's information.
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10. What are cookies and how do they collect,
use, and distribute information?
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers and
stores to your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes.
Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information
about your preferences on a particular site, so that you do
not have to reenter them each time you visit a site.
We use cookies or IP addresses for a number of tasks, including
helping us to tailor a website or a marketing message to better
match your needs and interests and allowing us to better understand
how visitors use our website. Comanity and its ad servers use
cookies to assign your Internet browser a unique random number,
a sort of anonymous user ID that is stored in a file on your
computer. This unique identification number automatically identifies
your browser - but not you - to our computers whenever you interact
on our website. Our ad server collects your IP address, browser
type, operating system, time and date a particular ad was served,
and an advertisement tag used to call up an ad. We use a shopping
cart cookie to indefinitely store and keep track of items you
selected until you check out or delete the items.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major websites
use them to provide useful features to their customers. Cookies
in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although
they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially
set to accept cookies. You are always free to instruct your
web browser to decline our cookies if it has the capability
to do so, but some parts of our website may not work properly
if you do so. For more general information on cookies, see http://www.cookiecentral.com.
In the future, we may place advertising on our website that
originates from third-party advertisers and/or advertising agencies.
Even though these advertisements will be displayed on our website,
cookies may be assigned by the advertisers themselves. We do
not control these cookies.
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11. Where can I find any changes to the
Privacy Policy?
This Policy was implemented on January 1, 2002 and is effective
immediately. If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy,
you should send us an e-mail opting out of it at company@Comanity.com
and we will reluctantly cancel your account privileges and remove
your data (subject to the limitations described above). If we
make changes to any terms or conditions of the Policy, the changes
will be incorporated into this document so you will always know
what information we gather, how we might use that information,
and to whom we will disclose it. We may change, add, or remove
portions of this Policy without prior notice to you at any time.
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Policy of Terminating Privileges
For Infringement; Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of
Copyright Infringement Infringement
Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512 as amended by Title II of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Comanity LLC, will terminate
the account of any subscriber who uses his or her account privileges
to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a license,
valid defense or fair use privilege to do so. After proper notification
by the copyright holder or its agent to Comanity and later confirmation
through court order or an admission by the subscriber that an
account has been an instrument of unlawful infringement, Comanity
will terminate the infringing subscriber's account. Comanity
may also in its sole discretion decide to terminate a subscriber's
account privileges prior to that time if it has good faith belief
that infringement has in fact occurred. In addition, pursuant
to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), Comanity has implemented procedures
for receiving written notification of claimed infringements
and for processing such claims in accordance with the Act. Comanity
respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our
users to do the same.
Any written notice describing the infringing activity must include
the following information:
1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed;
2. a description of the allegedly infringing work or material;
3. a description of where the allegedly infringing material
is located on the site;
4. information reasonably sufficient to allow us to contact
you, such as your address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that
the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright
or other proprietary right owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement by you that the above information in your notification
is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the
copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner
of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
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