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Last modified: October 27, 2009
At oMATICLive we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy
Policy applies to all of the
products, services and websites offered by oMATICLive or its
subsidiaries or affiliated companies; collectively, oMATICLive’s “services.” In addition,
where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy
practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how
particular services process
personal information. These notices can be found here.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free
to
contact us through our website or write to us at
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for
an account or provide any personal information to us, such as oMATICLive
Search. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect
the following types of information:
- Information you provide – When you sign up for
a
oMATICLive Account or other oMATICLive service or promotion that
requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as
your name, email address and an account password). For certain
services, such as our advertising programs, we also request credit
card or other payment account information which we maintain in
encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you
submit under your account with information from other oMATICLive
services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain
services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining
such information.
- Cookies – When you visit oMATICLive, we send
one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters
– to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your
browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service,
including for storing user preferences, improving search results and
ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search.
oMATICLive also uses cookies in its advertising services to help
advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web. We
may set one or more cookies in your browser when you visit a
website, including oMATICLive sites that use our advertising
cookies, and view or click on an ad supported by oMATICLive’s
advertising services.
- Log information – When you access oMATICLive
services, our servers automatically record information that your
browser sends whenever you visit a website. These
server logs may include information such as your web request,
Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date
and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely
identify your browser.
- User communications – When you send email or
other communications to oMATICLive, we may retain those
communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated oMATICLive Services on other sites –
We offer some of our services on or through other web sites.
Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to
oMATICLive in order to deliver the service. We process such
information under this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites through
which our services are offered may have different privacy practices
and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
- Gadgets – oMATICLive may make available third
party applications through its services. The information collected
by oMATICLive when you enable a gadget or other application is
processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the
application or gadget provider is governed by their privacy
policies.
- Location data – oMATICLive offers
location-enabled services, such as oMATICLive Maps for mobile. If
you use those services, oMATICLive may receive information about
your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device)
or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a
cell ID).
- Links – oMATICLive may present links in a
format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have
been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our
search technology, customized content and advertising. Read more
information about links and
redirected URLs.
- Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to
oMATICLive services only. We do not exercise control over the sites
displayed as search results, sites that include oMATICLive
applications, products or services, or links from within our various
services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other
files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information
from you.
oMATICLive only processes personal information for the purposes
described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy
notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes
include:
- Providing our services, including the display of customized
content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect
and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
- Protecting the rights or property of oMATICLive or our users;
and
- Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process personal
information by referring to the supplementary privacy notices for
particular services.
oMATICLive processes personal information on our servers in the
United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we
process personal information on a server outside your own country. We
may process personal information to provide our own services. In some
cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to
the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration,
we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information
in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then
we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than
those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service
privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the
use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not
collect or use
sensitive information for purposes other than those described in
this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices,
unless we have obtained your prior consent.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can
reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is
being sent. However, some oMATICLive features and services may not
function properly if your cookies are disabled.
oMATICLive uses the DoubleClick
advertising cookie on AdSense partner sites and certain oMATICLive
services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across
the web. You can view, edit, and manage your ads preferences associated
with this cookie by accessing the Ads Preferences Manager.
In addition, you may choose to opt out of the DoubleClick cookie at any
time by using
DoubleClick’s opt-out cookie.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our
services, in which case oMATICLive may not be able to provide those
services to you.
Information sharing
oMATICLive only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of oMATICLive in the following limited
circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing
of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated
companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of
processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these
parties agree to process such information based on our instructions
and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or
disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a)
satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service,
including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect,
prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues,
or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of
oMATICLive, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If oMATICLive becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form
of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality
of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide
notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to
a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of
aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users
who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users
clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not
identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions
about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and
processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security
measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store
personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to oMATICLive employees,
contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to
operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by
confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including
termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these
obligations.
Data integrity
oMATICLive processes personal information only for the purposes for
which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any
applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data
collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only
collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or
improve our services or as otherwise permitted under this Policy. We
take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process
is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update
or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use oMATICLive services, we make good faith efforts to
provide you with access to your personal information and either to
correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your
request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for
legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify
themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or
removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process
requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require
disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning
information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not
otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and
correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so
would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have
different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal
information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific
privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
oMATICLive regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy.
Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this
Privacy Policy or oMATICLive’s treatment of personal information by
contact us through this web site:
When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is
oMATICLive’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her
concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities,
including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints
regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between
oMATICLive and an individual.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We
will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your
explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor.
Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy
Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site.
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