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Our Privacy Policy (the "Policy") was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our customers and partners. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Site, products and services. This Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and the needs of our customers and partners.
When you visit our Site you may provide us with two types of information: 1) information that you knowingly choose to disclose and which is collected on an individual basis; and 2) Site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Site.
If you choose to sign up as a BlueArc partner, you will be requested to provide information including, but not limited to:
We will not provide this information to any third parties without first obtaining written approval from you. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We will provide protection for these electronic communications using measures similar to those we generally employ in the maintenance of information received by mail or telephone.
Similar to many other Web sites, our Site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" and Web server logs to collect information about how our Site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
Broadly speaking, we use individual information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under standards of care designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers and partners.
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Site users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Site and better serve our customers and partners. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Site to better meet the needs of existing and prospective customers and partners.
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Site as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Site and evaluate our Site's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any individual identifying information about you although they do permit us to send focused online banner advertisements or other such responses to you.
Periodically, our operations and business practices will be reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentially and quality of our information; however, we do not currently utilize encryption or security software to safeguard the confidentiality of any information we collect through your use of our Site.
You may request access to all your individual identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing privacy@bluearc.com
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, Site traffic patterns and related Site information to third parties; however, this information will not include individual identifying data.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as points to information on topics that may be useful to the user of our Site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites that have a link on our Site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
By using our Site you consent to our collection and use of your individual information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.