
Brief-Master™
Privacy Policy
Updated 08/22/2004
At Brief-Master
Software.Com, 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 Brief-Master
Software, LLC'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.
Data collection
- Brief-Master Software, LLC collects limited
non-personally identifying information your browser makes available
whenever you visit our 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. Brief-Master Software, LLC asks you for some personal
information in order to create an account (typically your name and email
address) and we will use that information to provide the service. For
certain services, such as our online database, we may request credit card
or other payment information which is maintained by PayPal 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.
Cookies
- Upon your first visit to Brief-Master.Com, 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. Brief-Master Software, LLC 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 Brief-Master,Com features or services may not
function properly without cookies.
Information
sharing
- 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 Brief-Master.Com, 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 Brief-Master,Com
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 Brief-Master
Software., such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will
provide notice before Com 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 utilize our database or
how many users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Information security
- 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.
Updating your
information
- 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.
Changes to this Policy
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
If you have any
additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time at info@Brief-Master.com.
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