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DigitalFTO.com has created
this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to protecting your privacy. The following
discloses our information gathering and disclosing
practices for this website. As this policy may change
from time to time, please check back periodically.
This Web site is the
product of DigitalFTO.com, a division of Wave Systems
Corp. This site contains links to several other
websites; you may have reached this site by clicking a
link from DigitalFTO.com or any of our other affiliate
sites. This site also contains links to other Web sites.
By clicking one of these links you are linking to
another Web site. It is your responsibility to read the
privacy statements of these linked sites. Many of these
sites have their privacy policies which may differ from
ours. DigitalFTO.com and its affiliates are not
responsible for the content or the privacy policies of
any other websites to which this site may link.
I. Collection
of your Personal Information
Our primary goal in
collecting personal information is to provide you with a
smooth, efficient and customized experience. This allows
us to provide services and features that most likely
meet your requirements.
a)
Visitors: If you are only a
visitor to DigitalFTO and your intent is only to gather
information or simply browse the website, we do not ask
you for any personal information, but we do collect
statistical data which includes zip codes and other
information on all users.
b)
Children / Minors: This site does
not serve minors; if you are a minor you can only browse
this site in conjunction with your parents or guardians.
Furthermore, if you are a minor please do not provide
any kind of personal information.
c)
Registration:We collect the following
information from you to provide you the highest quality
of service. This information allows us to provide
services and features to meet your needs and to
customize our service to make your browsing experience
memorable.
In general you can browse
our site without giving any personal information. But
to use certain features and services we request you to
provide contact, identify information, billing
information and other personal information as indicated
on the forms. We use your financial information,
including credit card information to verify your name,
address and other information, as well as to bill you
for your use of our services. Where possible, we
indicate the required and optional fields.
We automatically track
certain information based upon your behavior on our
site. We use this information to do internal research on
our users demographics, interests, and behavior to
better understand and serve you. This information may
include the URL that you came from, which URL you next
go to, what browser you are using and your IP address.
d)
IP Addresses: DigitalFTO.com collects IP
addresses to locate your computer on the internet for
analytical, administrative and statistical purposes.
It’s not the policy of DigitalFTO.com to routinely
collect any personally identifiable information from
your IP addresses or the location of your computer on
the Internet. Your IP address may be used in conjunction
with other personal information in case of suspected
abuse or service problem. We may also use your IP
address to identify service problems which may affect
other users.
e)
Cookies: DigitalFTO.com use
data collection devices such as “Cookies”. Cookies are
small files placed on your hard drive by your browser to
help keep track of your user profile. Cookies are read
only by the server that placed them there and are unable
to execute any code or virus. We also use cookies to
allow you to enter your password less frequently during
a session. We use cookies to identify you when you visit
our site and help us provide information that is
targeted to your interests. When you enter your name,
address or ZIP code on one of our forms, it may be
stored in a cookie so you do not have to enter it again.
Even though most cookies are session cookies meaning
that they are automatically deleted from at the end of
the session but some cookies may remain on your hard
drive for up to ten (10) days before they are deleted.
No personal information stored in cookies will be shared
with outside companies without your permission. You are
always free to decline our cookies if your browser
permits, although in that case you may not be able to
use certain features on our site and you may be asked to
renter your password more frequently during a session.
We sometimes use outside
companies to advertise on our Web sites which may place
cookies on your computer and are referenced by our ad
companies. We have neither access nor the control over
to this use of cookies by third parties.
f)
E-mail Services:
If you decide to enroll in our e-mail services to take
advantages of our e-mail features you and your e-mail
contacts may receive e-mail from us. Anyone who receives
e-mail from us is given the opportunity to stop
receiving communication from us. You also have the right
to remove your personal information from our database by
sending us a request or by simply unsubscribing by
following directions in “Unsubscribe” sections.
II.
Use of the information collected
We may use the information
you provided us about yourself to complete your requests
for our products, services and promotions. We respond to
your inquiries about our services and to offer
promotional benefits that we believe may interest you.
The collected information can be used to communicate
with you regarding issues, such as you account,
promotional offers, expiration of your listings or to
contact you. DigitalFTO.com, its affiliates, or third
parties to whom DigitalFTO.com discloses such
information in accordance with this privacy policy
(including its partners or advertisers) may periodically
send you promotional or informational messages. In any
case where we might use your contact information for
this purpose, you will be able to indicate at
registration whether you wish to receive such
promotional or informational messages.
We sometimes use the
non-personally identifiable information that we collect
to improve the design and content of our site and enable
us to personalize your Internet experience. We use
information in file we maintain about you, and other
information we obtain from your current and past
activities on the site, to resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement.
We may disclose personally
identifiable information in response to legal process,
for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.
We may also disclose this information in response to a
law enforcement agency’s request.
Agents and contractors of
DigitalFTO.com who have access to personally
identifiable information are required to protect this
information in a manner that is consistent with this
Privacy Policy.
Although we take
appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized
disclosure of information, we cannot assure you that
personally identifiable information that we collect will
never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with
this Privacy Policy.
III.
How we disclose the information we
have collected?
We collect personally
identifiable information across all user accounts and
disclose such information only in a non-personally
identifiable manner to third parties for marketing and
promotional purposes. The information that can be used
to identify you personally is not disclosed to these
entities. Except when these entities are used as a
service to authenticate your payment. In that case your
name, address, credit card number will be kept by these
third parties under their privacy policy. Your personal
identifiable information, such as your name, password,
credit card number are not disclosed to marketing
advertisers ever.
Sometimes we may associate
with third parties that do analysis and development on
our behalf. We may share your personally identifiable
information with such a third party on the condition
that the third party maintains the information as
confidential and only uses the information to perform
the services specified by DigitalFTO.com.
We may share your personal
identifiable information for marketing purpose but only
when you authorize and you are 18 years of age or older.
We advise these third party marketers that the
information provided by DigitalFTO.com is confidential
but we do not have control on the use or disclosure once
the information is provided.
If you are a registered
with DigitalFTO.com as a user or a Manager you have the
ability to send an e-mail to a friend or a third party.
E-mail privilege is only provided for informational
purposes and it may not be used for any illegal purpose,
which includes but not limited to harassment, threats
and pornography. Anyone using this privilege is advised
that DigitalFTO.com reserves unconditional right to
release information provided to us to third parties. In
case if abuse is suspected this information will be
released to any governmental agencies and to enforce our
Terms and Conditions or to troubleshoot our service.
This information may also be used to protect other
visitors to our site. The information collected here is
subject to our Privacy Policy if there is no abuse
suspected.
IV.
How you can access or make changes in
your information?
a)
Reviewing, Changing or Deactivating
Your Personally Identifiable Information: We
offer you the ability to automatically review and change
the information you submit to us by logging into the
site and entering in the new information yourself.
Generally, we will not modify your information based on
your request because it is difficult to authenticate
your account manually. You can change your user Id,
e-mail address, contact information financial
information. You must promptly update your information
if it changes.
Upon your request, we will
deactivate your account, contact information, billing
information from our active databases to prevent your
information from being shared except as required by law.
We will retain in our files information you have
requested to remove in some circumstances, such as to
resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems. Furthermore,
such prior information is never completely removed from
our databases due to technical and legal constraints,
including stored “backup” systems. Therefore, you should
not expect that all of your personally identifiable
information will be completely removed from our
databases in response to your requests.
b)
Password Control:
You are responsible for all
actions taken with your User Id and password. Therefore,
we do not recommend that you disclose your password to
any third parties. If you choose to share your User Id
and password or your information with any third party to
provide you additional services, you are responsible for
all the actions taken with your User Id and password and
therefore, it is your responsibility to review third
party’s privacy policy. If you do not control of your
password, you may lose substantial control over your
personally identifiable information and may be subject
to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. So, if
your password has been compromised for any reason you
must immediately change your password. To keep a better
control on your password we recommend to frequently
change your password.
c)
Changes to the Privacy Policy:
DigitalFTO.com privacy policy may change due to variety
of reasons to improve service for our customers. So it
is your responsibility to review this policy from time
to time.
V.
Security
DigitalFTO.com uses
industry standard practices to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal identifiable
information including “firewalls” and Secure Socket
Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected
against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many
different security techniques to protect such data from
unauthorized access by users inside and outside the
company. However there is no such thing as perfect
security on internet.
VI.
Collection of information by Third Party Sites
and Sponsors
Like many other sites this
site also links to other sites whose information
practices may be different than ours. You should consult
the other sites’ privacy policy as we have no control
over information that is submitted to, or collected by,
these third parties. Since DigitalFTO.com does not
control the privacy policies of third parties, you are
subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We
encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your
personal information to others.
VII.
Indemnification / Liability Limitation
By accepting our Privacy
Policy you indemnify DigitalFTO.com, its employees,
agents, vendors and suppliers for any direct or indirect
consequential and incidental damages including but not
limited to any loss in profits or revenues, arising from
the use or inability to use this Web site or accuracy of
the information.
If you have any questions
about this privacy statement, please E-mail us at
cs@digitalFTO.com
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