Topaz Bridge Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy pertains to the use of the Topaz Bridge web site at http://www.topazbridge.com/This privacy policy covers how Topaz Bridge treats personal information that Topaz Bridge collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number.

Information Collection and How it is Used

Topaz Bridge collects personal information when you register with Topaz Bridge, send email to Topaz Bridge or its employees or post content on Topaz Bridge. When you register we ask for your email address and other contact information. Topaz Bridge automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request. Topaz Bridge uses information for the following general purposes: sales and marketing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.

IP Addresses

IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our user registration databases when you register with Topaz Bridge. IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:

  • To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
  • To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address.
  • To estimate the total number of users visiting Topaz Bridge from specific geographical regions.
  • To make sure that people are not voting for themselves or friends during contests or promotions.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Topaz Bridge products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Topaz Bridge service. Topaz Bridge may use its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:

  • Access your information when you "sign in".
  • Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Topaz Bridge's services.
  • Display the most appropriate advertising banners and other messages, based on your interests and activity on Topaz Bridge.
  • Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
  • Conduct research to improve Topaz Bridge's content and services.

Topaz Bridge may let other companies (such as Google) [that may show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to Topaz Bridge's cookies.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Topaz Bridge does not rent or sell your personal information. Generally, Topaz Bridge does not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies without your consent except to provide products or services you've requested and in the following circumstances: Topaz Bridge may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Topaz Bridge's terms of use, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We will transfer information about you if Topaz Bridge is acquired by or merged with another company Topaz Bridge may share demographic information with business partners, such as "53% of users who regularly visit topazbridge.com try to avoid custom programming at all costs" or the like. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (e.g. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial)/ When you register with us, your personal information and other data will be stored and processed in Canada and the United States and this information may be subject to the laws of these jurisdictions.

Links

Topaz Bridge.com contains links to sites, and is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on topazbridge.com.

WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to WebLogs, or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Email Choice/Opt-out

Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by sending email to marketingprograms@topazbridge.com Users who do not wish to receive Topaz Bridge.com newsletters may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me Topaz Bridge newsletters' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. All notification emails and Topaz Bridge.com newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information Topaz Bridge Collects

Except as described above, Topaz Bridge will not disclose personal information to any third party without a user's explicit permission unless required by law. Topaz Bridge reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Topaz Bridge or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Topaz Bridge may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your Topaz Bridge account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.