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WinSCP Privacy Policy Draft
Note that this privacy policy is currently under review!
- What information do we collect?
- What do we use your information for?
- How do we protect your information?
- Do we use cookies?
- Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
- Third party links
- California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
- Your Consent
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
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What information do we collect?
We can collect information from you when you register on our site, donate to WinSCP or use WinSCP application.
Visiting WinSCP.net
When registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or location. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
After donating to WinSCP, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address or donation entry details.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Using WinSCP Application
When using WinSCP application, we might collect anonymous usage information as described here. You may, however, opt-out from providing WinSCP usage statistics.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
- To improve our website and our application (we continually strive to improve our offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
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- To process transactions (your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.)
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
How do we protect your information?
We use PayPal to process your payments. PayPal offers the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. Please refer also to PayPal Privacy Policy for details.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
All registered users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into the forum and going to the ‘Profile’ page.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our websites privacy policy.
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Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
This policy was last modified on May 05, 2012
This policy is based on http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com generator