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Cerento Privacy Policy
Developed March 18, 2005
At Cerento, we recognize that
privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate
our products and services with the protection of your
privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types
of personal information we gather when you use Cerento's
Web site, 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
- Cerento 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 products and services.
- Some of our services require
you to register for an account, complete a contact
form, or chose to receive additional information about
our company. Cerento asks you for some personal information
in order to contact you directly (typically your name,
email address and a password for your account) and
we will use that information to provide the service.
- 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 Cerento,
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. Cerento 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 Cerento 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 Cerento, 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 Cerento Inc. maintains
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 Cerento 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.
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.
Links
- The sites displayed as search
results or linked to by Cerento's services are developed
by people over whom Cerento exercises no control.
These other sites may place their own cookies on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
- Cerento may present links in
a format that enables us to understand whether they
have been followed. We use this information to understand
and improve the quality of Cerento's technology. For
instance, this data helps us determine how often users
are satisfied with the first result of a query and
how often they proceed to later results.
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
privacyconcerns@cerento.com
For more information about our practices regarding specific
information or services that are not covered in this
Privacy Policy, click on the links to the side of this
page.
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