Thank
you for visiting ipFrontline.com, a PatentCafe site. Your privacy
is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide
this notice explaining our online information practices and
the choices you can make about the way your information is
collected and used at this PatentCafe site. We will not sell,
share, or rent this information to others in ways different
from what is disclosed in this statement.
The Information We Collect or Use
At
IPFrontline.com, hereafter referred to as “Site”,
you can order products, vote in polls or otherwise
express an opinion, participate in WebLogs, subscribe
to one of our services such as our online newsletters,
submit news or story ideas to our editors, or manage
your personal preferences on how you use the Site.
The types of personally identifiable information
that may be collected at these pages include: name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number,
credit card information, your job title and area
of professional practice, and information about your
interests in and use of various products, programs,
and services.
You may use a feature on the Site that permits you to
e-mail send a page of the Site to another person. The
types of personally identifiable information that may
be collected about other people at these pages include:
recipient's name, and e-mail address. The information
you enter is used one time only, and only for the purposes
of e-mailing the page you requested.
On occasion, you may find sections of this Website which
require registration prior access. Depending on what
services or features you request, we may require specific
personal and contact information from you. This information
is used to provide you with enhanced features and services,
and if necessary, to contact you only regarding authentication
for access to sections of our websites that require login
or password access, or for the delivery of our e-mail
newsletters, or promotional materials from our partners,
but only those which you may have elected to receive.
We
also may collect certain non-personally identifiable
information when you visit many of our web pages
such as the type of browser you are using, the type
of operating system you are using, and the IP address
of your Internet service provider. We use IP addresses
to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user’s
movement, and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
How We Use The Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself
to approve access to features on the Site that require
your authenticated login, to fulfill your requests for
our products, programs, and services, and to offer you
other products, programs or services that we believe
may be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with
you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our
subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for
an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account
with us.
The information we collect in connection with our online
WebLogs is used to provide an interactive experience.
We use this information to facilitate participation in
these online message areas.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g.,
posting a message or opinion in a WebLog), we may publish
your screen name that you have provided to us.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information
that we collect to improve the design and content of
our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet
experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate
to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products,
programs, or services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information
in response to legal process, for example, in response
to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose
such information in response to a law enforcement agency's
request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats
to the physical safety of any person, violations of our
terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition,
we may transfer information about you if we are acquired
by or merged with another company.
Agents and contractors of PatentCafe who have access
to personally identifiable information are required to
protect this information in a manner that is consistent
with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the
information for any purpose other than to carry out the
services they are performing for PatentCafe.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against
unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure
you that personally identifiable information that we
collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent
with this Privacy Notice.
This Site will not use or transfer personally identifiable
information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones
described above without also providing you with an opportunity
to opt out of these unrelated uses.
Sharing Information With Third Parties
On occasion, we will share aggregated demographic information
with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked
to any personal information that can identify any individual
person.
For certain products or services offered by or through
our sites, we may rely on our partner or supplier to
establish separate billing, and to ship orders or deliver
a service directly to you. When you sign up for these
services, we will share only your name and contact information
that is necessary for the third party to provide these
services to you. These companies do not retain, share,
store or use personally identifiable information for
any secondary purposes, and are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose of providing
these services.
On certain sections of the site, you may provide to
us your e-mail address in response to your informed request
to receive promotional or informational offers related
to your special interests from third parties. E-mail
addresses provided to us for promotional offers will
be made available to the providers of those products
or services.
This web site contains links to other sites. Please
be aware that PatentCafe is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage our users
to be aware when they leave our site and, to read the
privacy statements of each and every web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this Site.
Security
When
our order forms ask you to enter sensitive information
(such as a credit card number), that information is
encrypted and is protected with the best encryption
software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page,
such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom
of Web Browsers such as Microsoft® Internet Explorer® and Netscape® Navigator® becomes
locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open, when you are
just ‘surfing’.
PatentCafe has put in place appropriate physical, electronic,
and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly
use the information we collect online.
If you prefer to not submit private information via
the Internet, you always have the option of placing orders
by regular mail or by phone using the contact information
on the ordering page.
About Cookies
To
enhance your experience on the Site, and as a necessity
to enable access to certain sections of the Site,
we may use cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored
on the user’s hard drive containing information
about the user. Usage of a cookie is generally not
linked to any personally identifiable information while
on the Site, however, once you provide the Site will
personally identifying information, this may be linked
to the cookie.
Accepting a cookie while on our Site may allow you to
link from page to page without having to login again
for every page. If you set or browser to reject cookies,
you may still use our sites, but some important features
you may want to use will be disabled. For example, you
would not be able to set up your customized article files
on our PatentCafe Magazine.
You
may read more information on cookies at cookiecentral.
Correcting or Updating Personal Information
If
your personally identifiable information changes (such
as your zip code, e-mail address, password), or if
you no longer desire our service, we will endeavor
to provide a way to correct, update or remove your
personal data provided to us. This can usually be done
at your member information pageif you have registered
through a personal account management section, or by
e-mailing us.
Opting Out
You have the opportunity to have your personal contact
information removed from our site and related databases.
Upon requesting to Opt Out, we will delete your contact
information, as well as any data that you may have supplied
during registration for certain customized features on
our site. Upon requesting to have your data removed from
our databases, you will lose access to those features
you have selected (for example, your customized MyMagazine,
message board access, or client tracking features on
our site will be stopped.)
Opting
Out of Third-Party Ad Servers
This
Site may use a reputable third party to present or
serve the advertisements that you may see at its
Web pages. These third party ad servers may use cookies
or similar technologies to help present such advertisements,
and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness. The
use of these technologies by these third party ad servers is subject
to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our privacy policy.
For more information on this site's use of such third-party ad servers,
please contact the as server directly.
Currently, we have relationships with the following
third-party ad networks (click to visit their Web site):
24/7 Real Media, Inc. http://www.247realmedia.com/privacy.html
How To Contact PatentCafe
If you feel that PatentCafe.com, Inc. is not abiding
by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact
our Customer Support.
Alternatively, you may communicate with either of these
contacts at the following:
PatentCafe.com, Inc.
441 Colusa Avenue, Suite D
Yuba City, CA 95991
Telephone: 530-671-0200
Fax: 530-671-0201
Updates & Effective Date
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice.
Please check back periodically and review this policy
so that you always will know what information we collect,
how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
This privacy policy was updated and posted on the Site
on our about November 2, 2004
