Privacy Policy
The Basics:
My own privacy is very important to me and I believe in treating your personal information with the same care I treat my own. Therefore, I promise that I will strive to:
- Only ask you for information that I actually need to run the service.
- Not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop my products, or protect my rights.
- Not store personal information on my servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of my services.
- Make it as simple as possible to control who can view and edit content you post to the website.
Privacy Policy:
Zoasoft, LLC. ("Zoasoft") operates zoasoft.com. It is Zoasoft's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating this website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Zoasoft collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Zoasoft's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Zoasoft's visitors use its website. From time to time, Zoasoft may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Zoasoft may also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users publishing content. Zoasoft only discloses logged in user and publisher IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Zoasoft's websites choose to interact with Zoasoft in ways that require Zoasoft to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Zoasoft gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who sign up for an account at zoasoft.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in additional transactions with Zoasoft are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Zoasoft collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Zoasoft. Zoasoft does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Zoasoft may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Zoasoft may monitor the most popular content posted on the zoasoft.com site or use logs to help identify hacking attempts. Zoasoft may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Zoasoft does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Zoasoft discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Zoasoft's behalf or to provide services available at Zoasoft's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Zoasoft's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Zoasoft will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Zoasoft discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Zoasoft believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Zoasoft, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Zoasoft website and have supplied your email address, Zoasoft may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Zoasoft and our products. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Zoasoft takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Zoasoft uses cookies to help Zoasoft identify and track visitors, their usage of Zoasoft website, and their website access preferences. Zoasoft visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Zoasoft's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Zoasoft's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Zoasoft and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Zoasoft may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Zoasoft's sole discretion. Zoasoft encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks go out to the good people at Wordpress.com, who decided to make their Privacy Policy (on which this policy is modeled) available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license.