Global Adept provides services that aim to protect your privacy. Therefore we are committed to privacy and attach very great importance to protecting your privacy, including your privacy when visiting the Global Adept web site or using Global Adept software and services.

Any use of these services or accessing of this web site signifies that you agree to Global Adepts Privacy Policy current at that time.

Personally Identifying Information
You may use most services and access most areas of this web site without registration and without providing any personal information about yourself. Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or work address, credit card credentials, email address or other contact information. However, for some personalized services, e.g., mailing lists, or forums, you may be asked to provide us with the minimal personal information we need in order to provide you with the service. Global Adept itself in compliance with applicable laws only uses personal information, as far as collected or processed by Global Adept. Global Adept strives to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy.

Disclosure to Third Parties
Global Adept does not forward, sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected at our web site or via use of Global Adept software and services, including email lists, to any third party. This may not be effective in the event that Global Adept were legally forced to surrender the data. It is therefore our strict policy to collect only a minimal amount of personal information required to provide you with our services. In most situations, no personal information is required to use our services.

Updates and Disclosure
You may request disclosure or deletion of your personal information from us at any time. In the event any of your personal information has changed, for instance if you have a new address, you are encouraged to update it either yourself via the appropriate web interfaces or via contacting Global Adept and informing Global Adept about the changes.

Protection
Global Adept uses its best efforts to protect personal information and all related data against any unauthorized use or loss. This includes, but is not limited to, utilization of appropriate encryption technologies to securely transfer personal information (e.g., credit card credentials) between your client and our payment processors. Such personal information is never stored in plain text format and internal transfers of such data are always encrypted.

Technical Logs
Global Adept does not collect IP addresses, but may collect data that is not Personally Identifying Information when accessing Global Adept services and web sites. These technical logs are not personally identifiable, and Global Adept makes no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually use the service or web site. The log files are collected for internal system analysis and benchmarking purposes only and are being deleted after a maximum of 90 days. Global Adept may only store summarized access statistics not containing any IP addresses or other personal information. Global Adept employs Google Analytics in its web site in order to collect demographic data about visitors. Global Adept has filtered all Google Analytics data to replace visitor IP addresses with '0.0.0.0'.

Web Cookies
Global Adept does not use web cookies for user tracking or for reading data from your computer. However, Global Adept may offer diagnostic techniques for helping users determine the security of their browser by attempting to use cookies.

No Spyware
Global Adept does not install any kind of spyware, adware, or malware with or as part of any of its software products. All Global Adept software products are free from any kind of such spyware, adware, or malware.

Children's Privacy
Global Adept services are not designed to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personal information from anyone we know to be under the age of consent.

Links to Other Web Sites
The web site may contain links to other web sites. Global Adept is not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of these web sites.

Changes
Global Adept reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time. In such cases we will take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on the Global Adept web site for a reasonable period of time, before the new privacy policy becomes effective.

Policy Guidelines
This privacy policy has been developed based on the guidelines for online privacy policies published by the Online Privacy Alliance. www.privacyalliance.org