| This Privacy Statement describes our current
privacy practices with regard to information we collect when you or your
computer interact with our Web sites, including www.mediachase.com, store.mediachase.com,
www.mediachase.net, and other sites within our domains.
Mediachase has a separate privacy statement that governs our practices
with respect to information that is gathered in connection with your use
of our Instant Business Network (IBN) Software. For information about
our privacy practices with regard to use of this software, please consult
the privacy statement connected with our IBN software.
We collect information from our users and their computers when they view
our Web sites. We collect both personally identifiable and non-personally
identifiable information. We also collect information from you when you
request support or make inquiries about our products or services.
We may ask you to provide us with personally identifiable information
at various points while you use our Web sites, such as when you register
for a Web site account or when you purchase products or services from
us. Examples of the types of personally identifiable information we collect
range from your e-mail address to your name, street address, phone or
fax number, e-mail address, and credit card information.
We use the personally identifiable information you provide about yourself
to fulfill your requests for products and services, to contact you about
your account, to complete and support your activities, to respond to your
inquiries about our offerings, and to customize the content of our Web
sites. We use your e-mail address and other personally identifiable information
to send you service notifications about your account, about the services
you currently use, if any, and concerning changes to our Privacy Statements,
Acceptable Use Policy, Web site Terms of Use, or other legal or policy
matters. If you have given us permission, we will use your e-mail address
and other personally identifiable information to send you our newsletter
or to communicate with you about products and services we believe may
be of interest to you.
We also may use some of this information in anonymous or statistical
forms, such as aggregating geographic information from user addresses
or types of industries in which users work, to better understand our customers.
We also may ask you to optionally provide us information about your interests
to be used for similar purposes. We will ask your permission before using
this type of information in a way that personally identifies you.
We use the information in our server log files to analyze trends in the
usage of our Web sites, to administer and maintain our Web sites, to track
a user's path through our Web sites, and to gather broad demographic statistics
about our Web sites and the ways in which they are used. Most of the information
in these files is not unique to you as an individual, such as the files
requested and pages you visit on our Web sites, the Web sites from which
you may have been referred to our Web sites, and information about the
type of browser you use and its settings. Some of the log files contain
IP addresses and other personally identifiable information, which are
used to identify user connections and to resolve technical issues related
to administration of our Web sites.
A cookie is a small text file stored on a computer that contains information
associated with that computer. Our Web sites use cookies for several purposes,
such as maintaining your login state, improving the content of our Web
sites, providing you with information tailored to your interests, customizing
the content of our Web pages, and improving the security of your use of
our Web sites. Login cookies are linked to your e-mail address, which
is stored with other personally identifiable information.
You can instruct your browser to stop accepting cookies from our Web
sites. If you do so, however, you will hinder your experience by, for
example, preventing yourself from ordering licenses for different versions
of the IBN software and viewing some information on our Web sites and
logging into forums and message boards, as well as preventing us from
displaying content customized to the preferences you have specified. You
should, however, be able to access most parts of our sites that are available
to the general public.
We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from
you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary
- to fulfill your requests for products or services
- to protect the security of our software, services, Web sites, and
users
- to protect ourselves from liability
- to respond to legal process or comply with law
- in connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company
We share statistical information about users of our web sites with third
parties, including our vendors, customers, potential customers, distributors,
and third parties that offer products or services for use with the IBN software.
We do not link this information to any personally identifiable information.
You may participate in public forums on our Web sites. Any information
you make available in these forums would become public information and
could be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. Please
be careful about disclosing personal information in public forums.
We take measures to protect the security of personally identifiable information
we hold about you. These measures include:
- encrypting sensitive information during transmission,
- limiting the number of our employees who have access to personally
identifiable information,
- requiring employees with access to personally identifiable information
to take appropriate measures to safeguard it
- storing your information in secure places that are protected using
standard security technologies.
- Accessing Web Account Information
We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable
information in your web account file is correct and current. You may review
much of this information at any time by using your Mediachase Account
on our Web site. If the information you wish to update or change is not
available on our pages, please send an e-mail to support@mediachase.com,
and we will endeavor to change the information for you.
Mediachase will occasionally update this Privacy Statement as our business
and products evolve. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated"
date at the top of the Privacy Statement. For material changes to this
Privacy Statement, Mediachase will notify you by placing prominent notice
on the Web site.
If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, its implementation,
or our practices, please contact us at support@mediachase.com.
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