Privacy Policy for first-mate-software.com
The privacy of our visitors to first-mate-software.com
is important to us.
At first-mate-software.com, we recognize that privacy
of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of
personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit first-mate-software.com,
and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information
to third parties.
We may collect the following information:
• name and job title
• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better
service, and in particular for the following reasons:
• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional email about new products, special offers
or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address
which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market
research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
• We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent
unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic
and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.
The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address,
your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you
used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited
our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you
visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit,
or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We may also use third party advertisements on first-mate-software.com
to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as
cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these
advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including
your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some
cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting
purposes (showing
New York
real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing
cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our
cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences
in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how
you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could
include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums
or accounts.