Privacy Policy
DevGalaxy.com respects your privacy. Our goal is to be your trusted,
objective directory of software components, applications
and web solutions. We want you to make the most of our services and
feel confident while doing so online. We have a clear privacy policy: we
collect no private, personal information unless you voluntarily supply it. This
privacy statement explains under what circumstances we gather your individually
identifiable information, how we use it, and who may access that information.
It also provides you the means to "opt out" of providing personal information
that you do not wish to provide and to access, change, or remove any
identifying information already collected.
We believe that your privacy is of the utmost importance, which is why this
statement regarding privacy of personally identifiable information provided
online conforms to the Federal Trade Commission's fair information practices of
notice, choice, access, and security. We hope that you will provide comments on
how we can improve our privacy policy so that we may better accommodate your
needs. Please provide any comments to
legal@DevGalaxy.com.
Please note that this privacy policy applies only to the DevGalaxy.com and all
DevGalaxy.com related web sites, including but not limited to
DevGalaxy.net, and specifically does not apply to other companies' or
organizations' web sites to which we link. We have attempted to mark each of
our web pages with the DevGalaxy.com trademark so you will always know where
this policy applies.
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Personal Information We Collect Online
When you visit DevGalaxy.com, we do not collect any
personally identifiable information without your consent. If you are simply
perusing our site and have not registered for any of our specific services, we
collect no personally identifiable information from you. In order to register
for DevGalaxy.com services, however, we require that you provide us with your
first and last name, your mailing address (including street, city, state,
country and postal code), email address and your telephone number.
On certain pages within this web site, you are invited to order products and
services from DevGalaxy.com In order to complete an online order, information
such as name, address (including street name or post office box, city, state,
and postal code), credit card number, and email address are required. If you
prefer not to provide such information online, but are still interested in
receiving DevGalaxy.com products or services, you may address your inquiry to
legal@DevGalaxy.com.
Surveys and Contests
From time to time our site requests information from users via
surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely
voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. Information requested may include contact and demographic
information. Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award
prizes.
How We Protect Your Information
DevGalaxy.com is dedicated to the security of your personal
information, and we take every commercially reasonable precaution to maintain
that protection. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data
accuracy, and facilitate the appropriate use of information, we use physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to attempt to protect the personal
information we collect online. Encryption tools are used when collecting or
transferring sensitive information such as credit card numbers. Additional
database content is protected either by means of encryption and/or being
located behind a firewall using security software.
If you have any questions about the security at DevGalaxy.com, please contact
us by email at legal@DevGalaxy.com.
Do We Employ "Cookies"?
"Cookies" are small data files stored on your own computer's
hard drive. They are generated by web sites such as DevGalaxy.com to provide
users with a personalized and enhanced online experience. By assigning and
storing a random user name cookie on your hard drive, we are able to offer you
personalized collection, filtering, and delivery of information that we feel
will be of the greatest interest and value to you. This includes not only our
web site's original content, but also advertisements especially targeted to you
in accordance with your content preferences and traffic patterns, as revealed
by the cookie. Overall, aggregated usage information helps us improve our
offerings by showing us how different areas of the web site are being used.
Be assured that cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to reveal or discover
the identity of the individual user; your acceptance of our cookie will not
compromise your anonymity while using our web site. If you choose to reject the
cookie, you may still use our web site although certain functions and
applications may be disallowed as a result, and you will not benefit from the
personalized and enhanced services discussed throughout this policy.
Our Use of Your Personal Information
At this time, DevGalaxy.com does not rent, sell or otherwise
share your personally identifiable information with any third party. Our
primary use of the personal information you volunteer is for billing purposes
with regard to the services you purchase from us. DevGalaxy.com also may store
and use your personal information for our own internal purposes including list
management and demographic matching with other internal database information.
We specifically reserve the right to access, monitor, and retrieve
password-protected information to ensure your compliance with our Terms of Use
and to comply with law.
Additionally, composite tracking information
generated by cookies for traffic accounting and content analysis may be shared
with third parties for the purpose of documenting site activity and other
trends. We emphasize that the foregoing statistical information is not linked
to any personal information and cannot identify any individual user of our web
site.
Our Retention of Your Personally Identifiable Data
Once you have registered with DevGalaxy.com, we will store and
maintain the personally identifiable information you have volunteered for so
long as you maintain your DevGalaxy.com account and for approximately 24 months
thereafter (so long as you have not directed us otherwise), or for so long as
we are required by law. Our retention of your data allows us to continue
providing you with highly personalized services without interruption.
Choice
DevGalaxy.com believes that choice is one of the most
important privacy principles. You have the choice not to submit any personally
identifiable information to us (although under such circumstances you would be
unable to register as a user). You also may choose to submit only those
mandatory fields of data absolutely required for registration on our web site.
Additionally, although we do not currently share personally identifiable
information with third parties, you may choose to limit the future use of or
access to your personally identifiable information by requesting that we
refrain from sharing all such information with any third parties. You may
opt out in this way at any time simply by
contacting us at legal@DevGalaxy.com.
Likewise, should you prefer not to receive email communications from us, we
provide a mechanism for opting out of this service by clicking off the box that
states "Yes, I'm willing to receive email updates pertaining to special
promotions and upcoming events relevant to my business" or similar language.
Additionally, each email message we send you will clearly state how you may
remove your name from the email list.
Access and Accuracy
DevGalaxy.com aims to keep your personally identifiable
information as accurate as possible. As an online user, you will have the
opportunity to access and change your information at any time. Simply go to the
"My Account" area of www.DevGalaxy.com and modify your contact information. By
doing so, you may add, delete, or change individual fields of data in your
personal profile. Should you at any time desire to remove your name from our
list of DevGalaxy.com registrants, you may contact us at
legal@DevGalaxy.com. After receipt of such a request, we will remove
your personal information from our records as soon as commercially reasonable.
If the "My Account" feature is not available, either because it is under
development or upgrade, you will not be able to register as a user at the time,
and therefore no personal information can be collected. Likewise, no personal
information can be edited either. If you are worried about your privacy but
cannot access the "My Account" feature please send us a message to
legal@DevGalaxy.com.
Links
This web site contains links to 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 DevGalaxy.com
on this web site, and DevGalaxy.com does not bear any responsibility for any
actions or policies of such third party web sites.
Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use
of information as set forth in this privacy policy. You also acknowledge our
right to change this policy, without prior notification, and our commitment to
post any such changes on this page so that you are fully informed of the types
of information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any,
it is disclosed.
Give Us Your Feedback
Our goal is to protect your privacy. To comment on or help us
improve this privacy policy, please contact us by email at
legal@DevGalaxy.com.
Policy Review
This policy is in place as described on this
page starting with 08/01/2005.
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