Privacy
Commitment to your privacy
Internet Privacy is of the utmost importance to us at ADG, we want
to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel
you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture
and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information
we gather and how we use it.
ADG gathers two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters,
to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and
from participation in polls and surveys. Information ADG gathers through
aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views
throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our
content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better
understand the demographics of our audience. ADG derives is the sole owner
of the data collected on our website. We do not sell, share, or rent this
data. ADG collects this data and uses it exclusively to send only appropriate
information to users who request it.
ADG collects site data in the following manners:
Optional Voluntary Information and Demo Requests
Requires a user to provide contact and company information. Log files
ADG uses IP addresses to monitor and administrate our site and collect
data to analyze trends. IP addresses are not linked to any personally
identifiable information. Log file data that ADG collects may include
browser type, IP address, and specific URL’s accessed.
Links
ADG's website contains links to other sites. ADG is not responsible
for the privacy practices of these sites. We recommend users read the
privacy statements of each website.
Email
All email communications sent by ADG have clear instructions on how
to unsubscribe from future communications. This can be accomplished in
several ways, including clicking on the unsubscribe link within an email
or replying to the email indicating you no longer wish to receive communications.
Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately
for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration
the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their
opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important
issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to any particular user. ADG may use a system to "tag"
users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual
users.
Surveys
ADG may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content
to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information
in these surveys with third party sources. We never share any of this
information about specific individuals with any third party.
Usage tracking
ADG tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual users.
ADG does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's
domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from
the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
Security statement
Along with privacy, security is of utmost importance at ADG Therefore,
substantial investments have been made in ADG's technology platform
including high-end servers and hosting, database applications, and security
technologies.
Legal disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to
disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial
proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.
Our clients
ADG’s online RSS feed platform offers significant flexibility
to our clients to create, manage and measure the effectiveness of their
communications.
In some cases ADG assists our clients by collecting broad-based demographics
and profile information to assist in providing. ADG does not own the
data collected and cannot use it for its own business purposes or in any
way not authorized by our client.
ADG reserves the right to terminate any client that doesn't adhere
to a strict opt in permission policy.
Questions, concerns and comments
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us:
AppWares Development Group
4566 Victoria Avenue
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Canada
L2E4B6
Tel: 905 356 5363
Fax: 866 332 3263 (Toll Free)
Email: info@appwares.com
Security
ADG operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall
and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals
have access to the information provided by our customers.
Opt-out policy
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely
alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information
from our users
Your consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information
by ADG. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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