Version 01 jan 2005
At Accuma, we strive to develop innovative services to better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use Accuma's services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address. You can find more details about the data we collect on particular services by clicking the links on the side of this page.
Accuma collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser
makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes
your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and
time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.
Some of our services require you to register for an account. Accuma asks you
for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your
name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information
to provide the service. For certain services, such as our advertising programs,
we may request credit card or other payment information which we maintain in
encrypted form on secure servers.
When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about
the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help
you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.
Upon your first visit to Accuma, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. Accuma does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Accuma features or services may not function properly without cookies.
We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies
or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in
any of the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent.
We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose
of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is
done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such
information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy
and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access,
preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect
the rights, property or safety of Accuma, its users or the public.
If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under your account
among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience
and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account
information to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited
circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.
We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United
States or any other country in which Accuma Inc. or its agents maintain facilities.
By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among
these facilities, including those located outside your country.
In the event of a transfer of ownership of Accuma Inc., such as acquisition
by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any personally
identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the
number of users who searched for "Mars Rover" or how many users clicked
on a particular advertisement.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access
to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who
need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services. For more information, please see the help pages for each service.
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page. Prior versions of this Privacy Policy will be kept in an archive for you to view.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time.