PRIVACY POLICY –
SECURITYVIBES.COM
Effective Date: July 15, 2008
This is the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for SecurityVibes.com (“Securityvibes.com,” the “Site” “we,” “us,” or “our”). SecurityVibes.com is a division of Qualys, Inc., (“Qualys”). This Privacy Policy governs only the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) collected by the Site.
Overview
This Privacy Policy is intended to explain our privacy practices and inform you as to: (i) the kinds of Personal Information we collect from users of the Site and how that information is collected; (ii) how we use your Personal Information; (iii) the circumstances under which we disclose Personal Information to third parties; (iv) how you can access, update or delete any Personal Information collected about you by us; and (v) the mechanisms we have implemented to protect your Personal Information. Any terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning given in the Terms of Use Agreement. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
Registering and Visiting the Site
When you visit the Site, you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose (such as by filling out a form, or sending messages) and personal information we collect in connection with your interaction with the Site.
When you register with the Site, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your email address, a user name and password and you may optionally provide us your name, a blog address, business contact information (including company name, type of company, location), a blog or site address, and your gender.
When you enter the Site, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Securityvibes.com visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in and storing of the users encrypted password. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the Site. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature. Cookies are computer specific and browser specific. If you delete a cookie from one browser, this will not affect the same cookie that is stored on a different browser.
The Site also uses action tags to collect information. Action tags (also known as web beacons) are incorporated into the programming of our Site and are invisible to the user. They allow our contractors to collect information such as the date/time the designated page was viewed, how long the user remains on a page, the URL of the Site or page you are visiting when our ad is served to you, and whether you view or click on the advertisement. None of the information collected or shared is personally identifiable.
We use third party contractors to help us measure user behavior, asses users’ interest in different areas of our sites, manage our online advertising, or serve our advertisements on the Site or on third party sites. These contractors use cookies and action tags to collect information from our visitors as permitted by applicable law. They share some of the information on user behavior with us.
The information collected or shared through cookies and action tags is not personally identifiable, but it might be tracked to an IP address.
When you use the Site, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships or groups, send messages, perform searches and queries, set up events, add applications, submit content, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your contact list. We reserve the right for technical reasons, or as required by law, to limit the amount of information stored, or the length of time this information may be stored on our servers.
Transfer of Data
The servers for this Site are located in the United States. By using the Site, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Children and Minors
Minors (as defined in the applicable country law) are not permitted to use this Site. If we find out that we have inadvertently collected information about a minor, we will immediately delete such information.
Use of Information Obtained by SecurityVibes.com
When you register with the Site, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your user name and email, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on the Site. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by the Site that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information you submit to the Site will not be available to users of the Site unless you configure your privacy settings to enable other users to view it. Your user name and other profile related information will be available through the Site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you that allows such access based on your privacy settings.
SecurityVibes.com may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. Generally, you may opt out of such emails by configuring your personal settings. SecurityVibes.com reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
Disclosure to Third Parties
We do not sell, rent, lease or disclose your Personal Information to third parties.
Advertisers
When we plan to disclose your Personal Information to a third-party advertisers we ask for you to opt out, before we collect any information that we intend to share with a third party advertiser. If your information is disclosed to advertisers, their use of your information is subject to the advertiser’s own privacy policies.
Operational Service Providers. We may need to disclose your Personal Information to our service providers for administering and maintaining the Site, features, functions, and operations. We use service providers to provide some of the content, activities, services, features, and functions we bring you. We request that our operational service providers also protect your privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and that they limit their use of Personal Information of our visitors to providing services to the Site.
Other Non-Affiliated Third Parties. We will make your Personal Information available to non-affiliated third parties in the following limited circumstances:
• When we are compelled to do so by a governmental agency, court or other entity (e.g., to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process);
• If we believe your actions violate any law, regulation, the Terms of Use, including, without limitation, this Privacy Policy, or any of our other terms and conditions, offerings or any other services, features or functions of the Site, or if you threaten the rights, property or safety of the Site, or any of its operational service providers, suppliers, Advertisers, customers or registered users, or any other party;
• If, in our sole discretion, we believe such disclosure to be necessary or appropriate to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries, to protect our business and assets, to defend our interests and/or to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; or
• In the event of a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, transfer of control, joint venture or other business combination involving this Site.
How you can protect your own Personal Information
When you use the Site, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., another user on the Site), such as personal information, comments, messages, content, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, content, or other items, this information may become publicly available and may be found by search engines.
Please remember to protect your email address, loginID, password, and computer against unauthorized access. Remember to sign out of your password-protected account when you are done, and close your browser to prevent your settings from being displayed to the next user.
Each user is responsible for keeping his/her loginID and password confidential. Please contact us immediately if you lose or misplace your login ID and/or password, or if you become aware of an authorized use of your loginID, password, or account information, so that we can deactivate your loginID. You will be held responsible for all activities and access to our Site – including all purchases made through our Site – that were made through that loginID and password, and that occurred before you notified us of their loss.
Email and Telephone Fraud - A warning about “phishing”
Fraudulent emails, also known as “phishing” or “spoofing” are communications that appear to be from an insurance company, a regulatory agency, a retailer, but are not. These emails attempt to lure you into sending your personal information to a website without your questioning or challenging the legitimacy of the request.
We do not, and will not, at any time, request your credit information, personal account information, loginID, or password in an unsecure or unsolicited email or telephone communication.
For more information about phishing, you may want to visit the Federal Trade Commission at http://onguardonline.gov/index.html
Links
Securityvibes.com may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy or other practices of other web sites. Please review the privacy policy and other terms of these Sites before clicking on a link, or providing Personal Information.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on the Site are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. SecurityVibes.com does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored at the Site unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by the Site and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers. Users who do not want this kind of tracking should not register for the Site.
Forums, Bulletin Boards, and other related Chat Portions of the Site
If you use a forum, bulletin board, chat room or other chat tool on the Site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you off-topic information or commentary. SecurityVibes.com is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. You are also responsible for using these forums in a manner consistent with the Terms of Use or other terms and conditions set forth on the relevant forum site.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on the Site is readily available through the profile editing tools. Site users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account or user profile. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Site profile may do so in the Settings Panel page.. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time according to our document retention policies, but will not be generally available to other participants of the Site. Where you use the communication features of the Site to share content or other materials with other individuals on the Site, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Site user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
How to Contact Us
This Site is operated by Securityvibes.com, a division of Qualys. If you have any question or request, please contact us at: privacy@securityvibes.com or write us at:
SecurityVibes.com
1600 Bridge Parkway
Suite 201
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
c/o Privacy Administrator
Changes
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Each time changes are made they will be posted prominently on our Site. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Notice constitutes your acceptance to these changes.
If there is a material change to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with the then-applicable legal requirements.
Security
We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your information while it is in our custody in accordance with accepted industry standards. We have no control over your data while it is being transmitted to us. Please keep in mind that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure from intrusion.
Effective Date: July 15, 2008
This is the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for SecurityVibes.com (“Securityvibes.com,” the “Site” “we,” “us,” or “our”). SecurityVibes.com is a division of Qualys, Inc., (“Qualys”). This Privacy Policy governs only the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) collected by the Site.
Overview
This Privacy Policy is intended to explain our privacy practices and inform you as to: (i) the kinds of Personal Information we collect from users of the Site and how that information is collected; (ii) how we use your Personal Information; (iii) the circumstances under which we disclose Personal Information to third parties; (iv) how you can access, update or delete any Personal Information collected about you by us; and (v) the mechanisms we have implemented to protect your Personal Information. Any terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning given in the Terms of Use Agreement. By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
Registering and Visiting the Site
When you visit the Site, you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose (such as by filling out a form, or sending messages) and personal information we collect in connection with your interaction with the Site.
When you register with the Site, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your email address, a user name and password and you may optionally provide us your name, a blog address, business contact information (including company name, type of company, location), a blog or site address, and your gender.
When you enter the Site, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Securityvibes.com visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in and storing of the users encrypted password. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the Site. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature. Cookies are computer specific and browser specific. If you delete a cookie from one browser, this will not affect the same cookie that is stored on a different browser.
The Site also uses action tags to collect information. Action tags (also known as web beacons) are incorporated into the programming of our Site and are invisible to the user. They allow our contractors to collect information such as the date/time the designated page was viewed, how long the user remains on a page, the URL of the Site or page you are visiting when our ad is served to you, and whether you view or click on the advertisement. None of the information collected or shared is personally identifiable.
We use third party contractors to help us measure user behavior, asses users’ interest in different areas of our sites, manage our online advertising, or serve our advertisements on the Site or on third party sites. These contractors use cookies and action tags to collect information from our visitors as permitted by applicable law. They share some of the information on user behavior with us.
The information collected or shared through cookies and action tags is not personally identifiable, but it might be tracked to an IP address.
When you use the Site, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships or groups, send messages, perform searches and queries, set up events, add applications, submit content, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your contact list. We reserve the right for technical reasons, or as required by law, to limit the amount of information stored, or the length of time this information may be stored on our servers.
Transfer of Data
The servers for this Site are located in the United States. By using the Site, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Children and Minors
Minors (as defined in the applicable country law) are not permitted to use this Site. If we find out that we have inadvertently collected information about a minor, we will immediately delete such information.
Use of Information Obtained by SecurityVibes.com
When you register with the Site, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your user name and email, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on the Site. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by the Site that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information you submit to the Site will not be available to users of the Site unless you configure your privacy settings to enable other users to view it. Your user name and other profile related information will be available through the Site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you that allows such access based on your privacy settings.
SecurityVibes.com may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. Generally, you may opt out of such emails by configuring your personal settings. SecurityVibes.com reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
Disclosure to Third Parties
We do not sell, rent, lease or disclose your Personal Information to third parties.
Advertisers
When we plan to disclose your Personal Information to a third-party advertisers we ask for you to opt out, before we collect any information that we intend to share with a third party advertiser. If your information is disclosed to advertisers, their use of your information is subject to the advertiser’s own privacy policies.
Operational Service Providers. We may need to disclose your Personal Information to our service providers for administering and maintaining the Site, features, functions, and operations. We use service providers to provide some of the content, activities, services, features, and functions we bring you. We request that our operational service providers also protect your privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and that they limit their use of Personal Information of our visitors to providing services to the Site.
Other Non-Affiliated Third Parties. We will make your Personal Information available to non-affiliated third parties in the following limited circumstances:
• When we are compelled to do so by a governmental agency, court or other entity (e.g., to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process);
• If we believe your actions violate any law, regulation, the Terms of Use, including, without limitation, this Privacy Policy, or any of our other terms and conditions, offerings or any other services, features or functions of the Site, or if you threaten the rights, property or safety of the Site, or any of its operational service providers, suppliers, Advertisers, customers or registered users, or any other party;
• If, in our sole discretion, we believe such disclosure to be necessary or appropriate to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries, to protect our business and assets, to defend our interests and/or to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; or
• In the event of a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, transfer of control, joint venture or other business combination involving this Site.
How you can protect your own Personal Information
When you use the Site, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., another user on the Site), such as personal information, comments, messages, content, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, content, or other items, this information may become publicly available and may be found by search engines.
Please remember to protect your email address, loginID, password, and computer against unauthorized access. Remember to sign out of your password-protected account when you are done, and close your browser to prevent your settings from being displayed to the next user.
Each user is responsible for keeping his/her loginID and password confidential. Please contact us immediately if you lose or misplace your login ID and/or password, or if you become aware of an authorized use of your loginID, password, or account information, so that we can deactivate your loginID. You will be held responsible for all activities and access to our Site – including all purchases made through our Site – that were made through that loginID and password, and that occurred before you notified us of their loss.
Email and Telephone Fraud - A warning about “phishing”
Fraudulent emails, also known as “phishing” or “spoofing” are communications that appear to be from an insurance company, a regulatory agency, a retailer, but are not. These emails attempt to lure you into sending your personal information to a website without your questioning or challenging the legitimacy of the request.
We do not, and will not, at any time, request your credit information, personal account information, loginID, or password in an unsecure or unsolicited email or telephone communication.
For more information about phishing, you may want to visit the Federal Trade Commission at http://onguardonline.gov/index.html
Links
Securityvibes.com may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy or other practices of other web sites. Please review the privacy policy and other terms of these Sites before clicking on a link, or providing Personal Information.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on the Site are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. SecurityVibes.com does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored at the Site unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by the Site and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers. Users who do not want this kind of tracking should not register for the Site.
Forums, Bulletin Boards, and other related Chat Portions of the Site
If you use a forum, bulletin board, chat room or other chat tool on the Site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you off-topic information or commentary. SecurityVibes.com is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. You are also responsible for using these forums in a manner consistent with the Terms of Use or other terms and conditions set forth on the relevant forum site.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on the Site is readily available through the profile editing tools. Site users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account or user profile. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Site profile may do so in the Settings Panel page.. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time according to our document retention policies, but will not be generally available to other participants of the Site. Where you use the communication features of the Site to share content or other materials with other individuals on the Site, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Site user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
How to Contact Us
This Site is operated by Securityvibes.com, a division of Qualys. If you have any question or request, please contact us at: privacy@securityvibes.com or write us at:
SecurityVibes.com
1600 Bridge Parkway
Suite 201
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
c/o Privacy Administrator
Changes
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. Each time changes are made they will be posted prominently on our Site. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Notice constitutes your acceptance to these changes.
If there is a material change to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with the then-applicable legal requirements.
Security
We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your information while it is in our custody in accordance with accepted industry standards. We have no control over your data while it is being transmitted to us. Please keep in mind that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure from intrusion.