| Dabdoob Soft Privacy Statement |
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Last Updated: July, 17,
2005
Dabdoob Soft is committed to protecting your online
privacy. You may visit most pages on this site without giving
us any information. But sometimes we do need information to
provide products or services that you request, and this
privacy statement explains data collection and use in those
situations. This privacy statement only applies to Dabdoob Soft;
it does not apply to other online or offline Dabdoob Soft sites,
products or services. Please read the complete Dabdoob Soft
privacy statement. |
Personal Information
Collection |
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We will ask you when we
need information that personally identifies you (personal
information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this
information is requested when you are contacting us using
e-mail forms on this site, requesting a serial number to be
e-mailed to you, or when purchasing and/or registering Dabdoob Soft
products. Personal information collected by Dabdoob Soft often
is limited to name and e-mail address, but may include other
information when needed to provide a service you requested.
For example: If you choose a service or transaction
that requires payment, such as making a purchase in the shop area of the Web
site, we will request personal information necessary for
billing and/or shipping, such as: name, e-mail, address,
telephone number, and credit card number.
When you buy
and install a new product, we may ask you to register your
purchase electronically. We keep this registration information
on file with any information you've already given us on
previous visits to our Web site.
Dabdoob Soft also
collects certain information about your computer hardware and
software. This information may include: your IP address,
browser type, operating system, domain name, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used for the
operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service,
and to provide general statistics regarding use of Dabdoob Soft.
Dabdoob Soft also collects information about which pages
our customers visit within Dabdoob Soft sites. This site visitation
data is identified only by a unique ID number, and it is never
linked with personal information unless a user consents as
described below.
We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may
employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel
gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any
information that these third parties collect via cookies and
action tags is completely anonymous. |
Personal Information Use |
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We use your personal
information for the following purposes:
To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
To deliver services, such as services, serial numbers or
software, that you request or purchase.
To help us create and publish content most relevant to
you.
To alert you to product upgrades, updated information, if
you so request.
To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as
appropriate.
We will merge site-visitation data with
anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and
we may use this information in aggregate to provide more
relevant content.
We hire other companies to provide
limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing
and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about
products or services, sending postal mail and processing event
registration. We will only provide those companies the
information they need to deliver the service, and they are
prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Dabdoob Soft may disclose your personal information if
required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such
action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law
or comply with legal process served on Dabdoob Soft or the site; (b)
protect and defend the rights or property of Dabdoob Soft and its
family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to
protect the personal safety of Dabdoob Soft employees, users of
Dabdoob Soft products or services, or members of the
public.
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Personal Information Control |
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When you purchase a
product or service, or otherwise give us personal information,
Dabdoob Soft will not share that information with third parties
without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions
already listed. It will only be used for the purposes stated
above.
Dabdoob Soft may send out periodic e-mails
informing you of technical service or security issues, or
updates related to a product or service you requested, or
confirming you requested a product or service. You will not be
able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are
considered an essential part of the service you have chosen.
These mailings do not include any marketing content
whatsoever, the contents of these mailings are directly
related to products or services you requested. |
Access to Personal
Information |
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Some services offered on
Dabdoob Soft may collect information that cannot be directly
modified. However, in such cases, you can access your personal
information by contacting Dabdoob Soft as described at the
bottom of this statement, or through alternative means of
access described by the service. For example, if you buy
software through our shop, you can review and edit your
personal information by contacting one of our Customer Service
representatives. |
Security of Personal
Information |
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Dabdoob Soft is committed to
protecting the security of your personal information. We use a
variety of security technologies and procedures to help
protect your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal
information you provide in computer servers with limited
access that are located in controlled facilities. When we
transmit sensitive information (such as a credit card number)
over the internet, we protect it through the use of
encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocol. |
Protection of Children's Personal
Information |
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| Dabdoob Soft is a general
audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal
information from children. |
Use of Cookies |
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Dabdoob Soft is aware of
your privacy concerns. We use cookies on this site for the
limited purposes of crediting affiliates with software
purchases. We also use cookies on this site to allow easy
access to the online support forums.
For example, when
you download our software from an affiliate web site a cookie
may be written to your computer. This cookie contains the
affiliate identification data only; no personal information is
stored or represented within the cookie. The cookie is
subsequently read to obtain the affiliate identification data
when you buy software through our shop. This usage of cookies
allows us to properly credit affiliates for software sales.
We do not use cookies on this site for any other
purpose. |
Links to Other Sites |
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This site contains links
to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Dabdoob Soft.
Please be aware that we, Dabdoob Soft, are not responsible for the
privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage
you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every site that collects
personally identifiable information.
This privacy
statement applies only to information collected by this Web
site. |
Enforcement of This Privacy
Statement |
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| If you have questions
regarding this statement, you should contact Dabdoob Soft by e-mail. |
Changes to This Privacy
Statement |
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| Dabdoob Soft will
occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we
will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the
privacy statement. For material changes to this statement,
Dabdoob Soft will notify you by placing prominent notice on the
Web site. |
Contact Information |
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| Dabdoob Soft welcomes your
comments regarding this privacy statement, please contact us
by e-mail. |