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Uptime Institute Inc. Privacy Policy |
Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect and
use the personal information you provide to us and allows you to make informed
decisions when using our site.
What Information Do We Collect?
We collect two types of information: personal information you
knowingly disclose on an individual basis and site use information we collect
on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information.
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or
company, and your practices when you register to be a member of the Uptime
Institute Community, register for certain services, or register for email
newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see
the Uptime Institute servicing your needs and interests.
Email Information.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may
retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and
our responses.
2.Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our site uses cookies
and Web server logs to collect information about how our site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date
and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web
sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to
Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of
administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service,
and making available other products and services to our customers and
prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect
to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do
not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS
HERE.
What
Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes
an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer
asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard
drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own
cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect
your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has
already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from
Cookies?
As you use our Web site, the site uses its cookies to
differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to streamline
logging in. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us
to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and which
parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to
constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not
allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally
store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Under certain circumstances we may allow affiliates access to registration
information, but we do not sell information to unaffiliated third parties. If you do not want us to release your contact
information to our affiliates, please notify us at EMAIL ADDRESS HERE.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to
notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the
opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending
us an email request at EMAIL ADDRESS HERE.
How
Do We Protect Your Information?
How
Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this
reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email.
Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmitted
securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages using
this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please
contact EMAIL HERE if you have any
questions or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may modify your account information at any time by logging
in and selecting ACCOUNT DETAILS. You
may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we
collect online and maintain in our database by emailing EMAIL HERE.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so
by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a)
conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties;
(b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site,
and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the
safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites
linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained
therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to
information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web
site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your
browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have
a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies.
Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of
your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our
privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to
keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what
circumstances we may disclose it.
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