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Emerald Technology, Inc. (Emerald) asks customers to supply various personal data
when placing an order, such as name and address, credit card information, and email
address. We use this data only for the purpose of filling an order or communicating
with the customer or supplier about the status of an order. You will be emailed
a receipt and instructions on how to setup the registered versions of your purchased
software/service.
We will release personally identifiable information to third parties and organizations
when appropriate for us to do so in order to comply with the law or to protect
against fraud . We will also release such information to cooperate
with law enforcement or other governmental investigations, to comply with all valid
court orders or subpoenas, to protect the legal rights of us and our users, or when
we believe it is necessary for fraud protection and/or credit risk reduction.
Except for the circumstances set forth in the previous paragraph, we will not
knowingly distribute customer information to be used in mailing lists, surveys,
or any other purpose other than what is required to perform our services.
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Emerald must collect the purchaser's name, email address, mailing address, phone
number, credit card number, and expiration date. This allows us to process and fulfill
orders and provide notification of the order status.
Emerald collects domains visited that we have not seen before in an anonymous fashion.
We have no records and no way of linking a users web surfing habits to individual
users.
If you choose to review websites as a part of your Safe To View toolbar you must
leave your contact information for us to validate the authenticity of the claims.
This information is not kept for more than 60 days. |
Emerald does not collect information from individual users surfing habits.
Emerald only collects the minimum amount of information required to perform the
services.
Customers who buy through the EmeraldShield.com store are shopping on a secure server
(Using SSL), which encrypts all of the customer's personal information including
name, address and credit card number. Encryption ensures that no one can access
or use personal information in an unauthorized manner.
Our commerce system was developed in-house with security as its number one priority.
This single entry point allows Emerald to maintain the tightest access control.
No third parties are used in processing payments, and no third party is ever given
access to our system.
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Firewalls allow the use of authenticated access and can prevent certain types of
traffic from entering the private network. We have deployed hardware and software
firewalls in an effort to monitor attempts to penetrate our systems. All access
attempts on our servers are logged and monitored.
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Because we accept sensitive information from end-users such as passwords and credit
card numbers, Emerald's site uses SSL. This logic encrypts the data being sent to
the server from the browser using high-level encryption technology. Once the data
is collected it may be required that the data be maintained for a certain period
of time inside our private network. Encrypting the data means it cannot be viewed
in plain text.
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Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your
computer's hard drive. Emerald may use cookies to monitor web traffic, but these
cookies do not store sensitive data.
If you choose to review websites and click the "remember me" box on user login your
user information will be stored on your machine in a cookie. |