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Protecting your privacy is important to Polar. With this statement we would
like to demonstrate our commitment to customer privacy and security and what
practices Polar uses concerning the collection and use of personal information
on the polarsoftware.com Site, Polar Shop, or all other Polar owned, operated,
licensed or controlled Sites (collectively the “Site(s)”) as well as personal
information collected by Polar via alternate business channels such as telephone
calls, trades shows, conferences, or from our partners.
Polar reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy in its reasonable
discretion from time to time. All updates will be published and we will revise
the “last updated” date at the bottom of the Privacy Policy. A notice will
be posted on our Site whenever this Privacy Policy is changed in a material
way. Subject to applicable law, your continued use of the Site(s) and/or your
use of Polar software constitute your consent to the Privacy Policy as revised
from time to time. We encourage you to read the complete Privacy Policy and
to contact us via email with any questions or comments that you have.
Collecting information
When you visit our Site(s), Polar collects your information in order to record
and support your participation in the activities you select.
We may also use the information to contact customers to further discuss customer
interest in our company, and to send information regarding our company or partners,
such as promotions and events.
All financial and billing information that we collect through our Site(s)
and the products and services we provide are used only to bill the products
and services. Polar does not use this billing information for marketing or promotional
purposes.
Polar does not distribute or share customer email addresses and any personal
customer information with third parties, except if it may be required by law.
Polar may collect information in a number of ways. The most common are when
you are asked to register before downloading or trialing Polar software. Also
when you participate in a contest, survey, or promotion; when you report a problem
with our Site(s), our services or our software products; or when you purchase,
activate and register Polar software products and services as applicable.
Polar collects personal information such as e-mail address, name, company
or location but may also include other information when needed to provide a
product or service or as part of the purchase, activation and registration.
Declining e-mail offers
Polar provides customers with an easy means to decline to receive e-mail offers.
Although most customers tell us they appreciate receiving notice of these opportunities,
we recognize the importance of providing you with choices. At any time, you may
request to discontinue receiving these offers from us by simply replying to the
e-mail and informing us of your preferences. All e-mail offers that you receive
from Polar will tell you how to decline further e-mail offers.
IP Address
IP addresses are unique to each computer, and they are used to identify senders
and receivers of information over the Internet. Polar uses your computer's
IP address to administer our Site(s) and to report aggregate information to
our advertisers.
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Cookies
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number
that is transferred from a Site to the hard drive of your computer so that
the Site administrator may identify your computer and passively track its
activities on the Site. They are used to help us authenticate clients and
provide timesaving shortcuts and preferences. Cookies allow us to automatically
remember your web browser, which in turn helps us deliver products and services
more efficiently and prevent others from using your account. These cookies
do not collect personally identifiable information, nor are they shared
with our partners and vendors.
Children
Polar encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their
children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the
Sites their children visit. Parents should supervise their children's online
activities and consider using parental control tools available from online
services and software manufacturers that help provide a kid-friendly online
environment. Make the Internet a safer place for children.
Third Party Sites
Polar Site(s) and online applications contain links to other Sites. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other
Sites. Customers and visitors must check the policy statement of these others
Sites to understand their policies. Customers and visitors who access a
linked Site may be disclosing their private information. It is your responsibility
to keep such information private and confidential.
Security
At Polar we are committed to maintaining a secure environment to store
and receive your personal information.
Polar has security measures in place to help protect against the loss
and misuse of the data under Polar control. When you access our Site(s),
the SSL technology integrated in the web browser, protects information using
both server authentication and data encryption to help ensure data is safe,
secure and available only to you. Polar also implements an advanced security
method based on dynamic data and encoded session identifications and hosts
the services in a secure server environment using preventing interference
or access from outside intruders.
Polar Web Shop is certificated by Thawte SSL Certificate which proves
that your information is safely kept in our hands.
Additional Information
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our security practices can
be submiteted through the Contact page.
Thank you for taking the time to read this document. Please revisit this
page occasionly to make sure that you are acquainted with the most recent
version of our Privacy Policy.
Last updated: January 25th, 2007.
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