Privacy Policy
Last
modified: January 1, 2010
At
OrdinarySoft we recognize that privacy is
important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of
the products, services and websites offered by
OrdinarySoft Inc. or its subsidiaries or
affiliated companies; collectively,
OrdinarySoft’s “services.”
OrdinarySoft adheres to the US Safe Harbor
Privacy Principles of Notice, Choice, Onward
Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and
Enforcement, and is registered with the
U.S. Department of Commerce’s
Safe Harbor Program.
If you
have any questions about this Privacy Policy,
please feel free to
contact us
through our website or write to us at
P.O.BOX15A
Vishneve
Ukraine 08132
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer
a number of services that do not require you to
register for an account or provide any personal
information to us, such as OrdinarySoft Search.
In order to provide our full range of services,
we may collect the following types of
information:
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Information you provide
– When you sign up for a
OrdinarySoft
Account or other OrdinarySoft service or
promotion that requires registration, we ask
you for personal information (such as your
name, email address and an account
password). For certain services, such as our
advertising programs, we also request credit
card or other payment account information
which we maintain in encrypted form on
secure servers. We may combine the
information you submit under your account
with information from other OrdinarySoft
services or third parties in order to
provide you with a better experience and to
improve the quality of our services. For
certain services, we may give you the
opportunity to opt out of combining such
information.
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Cookies – When
you visit OrdinarySoft, we send one or more
cookies – a small file containing a string
of characters – to your computer or other
device that uniquely identifies your
browser. We use cookies to improve the
quality of our service, including for
storing user preferences, improving search
results and ad selection, and tracking user
trends, such as how people search.
OrdinarySoft also uses cookies in its
advertising services to help advertisers and
publishers serve and manage ads across the
web. We may set one or more cookies in your
browser when you visit a website, including
OrdinarySoft sites that use our advertising
cookies, and view or click on an ad
supported by OrdinarySoft’s advertising
services.
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Log information
– When you access OrdinarySoft services, our
servers automatically record information
that your browser sends whenever you visit a
website. These server logs may include
information such as your web request,
Internet Protocol address, browser type,
browser language, the date and time of your
request and one or more cookies that may
uniquely identify your browser.
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User communications
– When you send email or other
communications to OrdinarySoft, we may
retain those communications in order to
process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our services.
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Affiliated OrdinarySoft Services on other
sites – We
offer some of our services on or through
other web sites. Personal information that
you provide to those sites may be sent to
OrdinarySoft in order to deliver the
service. We process such information under
this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites
through which our services are offered may
have different privacy practices and we
encourage you to read their privacy
policies.
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Gadgets –
OrdinarySoft may make available third party
applications through its services. The
information collected by OrdinarySoft when
you enable a gadget or other application is
processed under this Privacy
Policy. Information collected by the
application or gadget provider is governed
by their privacy policies.
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Location data
– OrdinarySoft offers location-enabled
services, such as OrdinarySoft Maps for
mobile. If you use those services,
OrdinarySoft may receive information about
your actual location (such as GPS signals
sent by a mobile device) or information that
can be used to approximate a location (such
as a cell ID).
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Links –
OrdinarySoft may present links in a format
that enables us to keep track of whether
these links have been followed. We use this
information to improve the quality of our
search technology, customized content and
advertising.
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Other sites –
This Privacy Policy applies to OrdinarySoft
services only. We do not exercise control
over the sites displayed as search results,
sites that include OrdinarySoft
applications, products or services, or links
from within our various services. These
other sites may place their own cookies or
other files on your computer, collect data
or solicit personal information from you.
OrdinarySoft only processes personal information
for the purposes described in this Privacy
Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices
for specific services. In addition to the above,
such purposes include:
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Providing our services, including the
display of customized content and
advertising;
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Auditing, research and analysis in order to
maintain, protect and improve our services;
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Ensuring the technical functioning of our
network;
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Protecting the rights or property of
OrdinarySoft or our users; and
- Developing new
services.
You can
find more information about how we process
personal information by referring to the
supplementary privacy notices for particular
services.
OrdinarySoft processes personal information on
our servers in the United States of America and
in other countries. In some cases, we process
personal information on a server outside your
own country. We may process personal information
to provide our own services. In some cases, we
may process personal information on behalf of
and according to the instructions of a third
party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you
sign up for a particular service that requires
registration, we ask you to provide personal
information. If we use this information in a
manner different than the purpose for which it
was collected, then we will ask for your consent
prior to such use.
If we
propose to use personal information for any
purposes other than those described in this
Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service
privacy notices, we will offer you an effective
way to opt out of the use of personal
information for those other purposes. We will
not collect or use sensitive information for
purposes other than those described in this
Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary
service privacy notices, unless we have obtained
your prior consent.
Most
browsers are initially set up to accept cookies,
but you can reset your browser to refuse all
cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. However, some OrdinarySoft features and
services may not function properly if your
cookies are disabled.
You can
decline to submit personal information to any of
our services, in which case OrdinarySoft may not
be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
OrdinarySoft only shares personal information
with other companies or individuals outside of
OrdinarySoft in the following limited
circumstances:
- We
have your consent. We require opt-in consent
for the sharing of any sensitive personal
information.
- We
provide such information to our
subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other
trusted businesses or persons for the
purpose of processing personal information
on our behalf. We require that these parties
agree to process such information based on
our instructions and in compliance with this
Privacy Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- We
have a good faith belief that access, use,
preservation or disclosure of such
information is reasonably necessary to (a)
satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or enforceable governmental
request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of
Service, including investigation of
potential violations thereof, (c) detect,
prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security or technical issues, or (d) protect
against harm to the rights, property or
safety of OrdinarySoft, its users or the
public as required or permitted by law.
If
OrdinarySoft becomes involved in a merger,
acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all
of its assets, we will ensure the
confidentiality of any personal information
involved in such transactions and provide notice
before personal information is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may
share with third parties certain pieces of
aggregated, non-personal information, such as
the number of users who searched for a
particular term, for example, or how many users
clicked on a particular advertisement. Such
information does not identify you individually.
Please
contact us at the address below for any
additional questions about the management or use
of personal data.
Information security
We take
appropriate security measures to protect against
unauthorized access to or unauthorized
alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
These include internal reviews of our data
collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security
measures to guard against unauthorized access to
systems where we store personal data.
We
restrict access to personal information to
OrdinarySoft employees, contractors and agents
who need to know that information in order to
operate, develop or improve our services. These
individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations and may be subject to discipline,
including termination and criminal prosecution,
if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data
integrity
OrdinarySoft processes personal information only
for the purposes for which it was collected and
in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any
applicable service-specific privacy notice. We
review our data collection, storage and
processing practices to ensure that we only
collect, store and process the personal
information needed to provide or improve our
services or as otherwise permitted under this
Policy. We take reasonable steps to ensure that
the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our
users to update or correct their personal
information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you
use OrdinarySoft services, we make good faith
efforts to provide you with access to your
personal information and either to correct this
data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data
at your request if it is not otherwise required
to be retained by law or for legitimate business
purposes. We ask individual users to identify
themselves and the information requested to be
accessed, corrected or removed before processing
such requests, and we may decline to process
requests that are unreasonably repetitive or
systematic, require disproportionate technical
effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance,
requests concerning information residing on
backup tapes), or for which access is not
otherwise required. In any case where we provide
information access and correction, we perform
this service free of charge, except if doing so
would require a disproportionate effort. Some of
our services have different procedures to
access, correct or delete users’ personal
information. We provide the details for these
procedures in the specific privacy notices or
FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
OrdinarySoft regularly reviews its compliance
with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to
direct any questions or concerns regarding this
Privacy Policy or OrdinarySoft’s treatment of
personal information by
contacting us
through this web site or by writing to us at
P.O.BOX15A
Vishneve
Ukraine 08132
When we
receive formal written complaints at this
address, it is OrdinarySoft’s policy to contact
the complaining user regarding his or her
concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate
regulatory authorities, including local data
protection authorities, to resolve any
complaints regarding the transfer of personal
data that cannot be resolved between
OrdinarySoft and an individual.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please
note that this Privacy Policy may change from
time to time. We will not reduce your rights
under this Privacy Policy without your explicit
consent, and we expect most such changes will be
minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy
Policy changes on this page and, if the changes
are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice (including, for certain
services, email notification of Privacy Policy
changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy
will be identified at the top of the page by its
effective date, and we will also keep prior
versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive
for your review.
If you
have any additional questions or concerns about
this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact
us any time through this web site or at
P.O.BOX15A
Vishneve
Ukraine 08132