Software Tailor Online Privacy Statement

Last Updated: Sep 1, 2014

Software Tailor is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the Software Tailor Online Privacy Statement below and also any supplemental information listed to the right for additional details about particular Software Tailor sites and services that you may use.

This Software Tailor Online Privacy Statement applies to data collected by Software Tailor through the majority of its websites and services, as well as its offline product support services. It does not apply to those Software Tailor sites, services and products that do not display or link to this statement or that have their own privacy statements.

Collection of Your Personal Information

In order to access some Software Tailor services, you will be asked to sign in with an e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your credentials. In most cases, these credentials will be part of the Software Tailor Network, which means you can use the same credentials to sign in to many different Software Tailor sites and services, as well as those of select Software Tailor partners. By signing in on one Software Tailor site or service, you may be automatically signed into other Software Tailor sites and services. If you access our services via a mobile phone, you may also use your telephone number and a PIN as an alternative credential to your username and password. As part of creating your credentials, you may also be requested to provide questions and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity and assist in resetting your password, as well as an alternate email address. Some services may require added security, and in these cases, you may be asked to create an additional security key. Finally, a unique ID number will be assigned to your credentials which will be used to identify your credentials and associated information.

At some Software Tailor sites, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address, that is used to create a Software Tailor billing account.

We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with Software Tailor sites and services. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring website addresses.

When you receive newsletters or promotional e-mail from Software Tailor, we may use web beacons (described below), customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information.

In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with Software Tailor, information collected through one Software Tailor service may be combined with information obtained through other Software Tailor services. We may also supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies. For example, we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area.

Use of Your Personal Information

Software Tailor collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites and deliver the services or carry out the transactions you have requested. These uses may include providing you with more effective customer service; making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and displaying content and advertising that are customized to your interests and preferences.

We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements. Some Software Tailor services, such as ContentTailor.com, may send periodic member letters that are considered part of the service. We may also occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other products or services available from Software Tailor and its affiliates.

Personal information collected on Software Tailor sites and services may be stored and processed in Hong Kong or any other country in which Software Tailor or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using a Software Tailor site or service, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Software Tailor abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the Hong Kong Government and the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Sharing of Your Personal Information

Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of Software Tailor and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent. Some Software Tailor sites allow you to choose to share your personal information with select Software Tailor partners so that they can contact you about their products, services or offers. Other sites, such as ContentTailor.com, do not share your contact information with third parties for marketing purposes, but instead may give you a choice as to whether you wish to receive communications from Software Tailor on behalf of external business partners about a partner's particular offering (without transferring your personal information to the third party). See the Communication Preferences section below for more information.

Some Software Tailor services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Software Tailor and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

We may access and/or disclose your personal information if we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on Software Tailor; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Software Tailor (including the enforcement of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Software Tailor services or members of the public.

Accessing Your Personal Information

You may have the ability to view or edit your personal information online. In order to help prevent your personal information from being viewed by others, you will be required to sign in with your credentials (e-mail address and password). The appropriate method(s) for accessing your personal information will depend on which sites or services you have used.

  • SoftwareTailor.com - You can access and update your profile on SoftwareTailor.com by visiting the SoftwareTailor.com Profile Center.
  • Software Tailor Billing and Account Services - If you have a Software Tailor Billing account, you can add to or update your information at the Software Tailor Billing website by clicking on the "Personal Information" or "Billing Information" links. If you have used ContentTailor.com services, you can update your profile information, change your password, view the unique ID associated with your credentials, or close certain accounts by visiting ContentTailor.com.
  • ContentTailor.com Public Profile - If you have created a public profile on ContentTailor.com, you may also edit or delete information in your public profile by going to the ContentTailor.com Member Directory.
  • Software Tailor Partner Programs - If you are registered with Software Tailor Partner Programs, you can review and edit your profile by clicking Manage Your Account on the Partner Program website.

Some Software Tailor sites or services may collect personal information that is not accessible via the links above. However, in such cases, you may be able to access that information through alternative means of access described by the service. Or you can write us by using our Web form and we will contact you within 30 days regarding your request.

Communication Preferences

You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Software Tailor sites and services by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive.

You may also have the option of proactively making choices about the communications you receive from particular Software Tailor sites or services by visiting and signing into the following pages:

The SoftwareTailor.com Profile Center allows you to choose whether you wish to receive marketing communications from SoftwareTailor.com, to select whether Software Tailor.com may share your contact information with selected third parties, and to subscribe or unsubscribe to newsletters about our products and services. The ContentTailor.com Preferences page allows you to choose whether you wish to receive marketing material from ContentTailor.com. You may subscribe and unsubscribe to ContentTailor.com Newsletters by going to the ContentTailor.com Newsletters website. If you are registered with Software Tailor Partner Programs, you can set your contact preferences or choose to share your contact information with other Software Tailor partners by clicking Manage Your Account on the Partner Program website. These communication choices do not apply to mandatory service communications that are considered part of certain Software Tailor services, which you may receive periodically unless you cancel the service.

Security of Your Personal Information

Software Tailor is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always choose to log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.

Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information

Many Software Tailor sites and services are intended for general audiences and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. When a Software Tailor site does collect age information, and users identify themselves as under 13, the site will either block such users from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing of their children's personal information. We will not knowingly ask children under the age of 13 to provide more information than is reasonably necessary to provide our services.

Please note that if you grant consent for your child to use Software Tailor services, this will include such general audience communication services as e-mail, instant messaging, and online groups, and your child will be able to communicate with, and disclose personal information to, other users of all ages. Parents can change or revoke the consent choices previously made, and review, edit or request the deletion of their children's personal information. If we change this privacy statement in a way that expands the collection, use or disclosure of children's personal information to which a parent has previously consented, the parent will be notified and we will be required to obtain the parent's additional consent.

We encourage you to talk with your children about communicating with strangers and disclosing personal information online. You and your child can visit our online safety resources for additional information about using the Internet safely.

Use of Cookies

Software Tailor websites use "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our services and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

Software Tailor websites use cookies to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized content and appropriate advertising on your later visits to these sites.

When you sign in to a site using your credentials, the Software Tailor Network stores your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. The Network also uses cookies to improve the sign in experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be stored, you can select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page, and this cookie will not be used.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of Software Tailor sites and services that depend on cookies.

Use of Web Beacons

Software Tailor Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our sites and allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.

Software Tailor may also employ Web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. We prohibit Web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information.

Finally, we may work with other companies that advertise on Software Tailor sites to place Web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on a Software Tailor site results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.

Use of Third Party Ad Networks

The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on Software Tailor Web pages are displayed by Software Tailor. However, we allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on Software Tailor Web pages. Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. Software Tailor does not have access to the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

Software Tailor maintains relationships with a number of the third-party ad networks currently operating such as: Avenue A; BlueStreak; DoubleClick; Mediaplex; Pointroll; RealMedia; TangoZebra; and Unicast. Those ad networks that use persistent cookies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting. You may find more information at the website of either the individual ad network or the Network Advertising Initiative.

Controlling "Spam" or Unsolicited E-mail

Software Tailor is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam." Software Tailor has a strict Anti-Spam Policy prohibiting the use of a Software Tailor or other ContentTailor.com e-mail account to send spam. Software Tailor will not sell, lease or rent its e-mail subscriber lists to third parties. While Software Tailor continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as expanded filtering features, there is no currently available technology that will totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using tools such as the Inbox Protector and being cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address while online will help reduce the amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.

Enforcement of This Privacy Statement

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact us by using our Web form.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this statement. If there are material changes to this statement or in how Software Tailor will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how Software Tailor is protecting your information.

Contacting Us

Software Tailor welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us by using our Web form.