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Dear Visitor:
eTrial Communications, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to providing those who
use or visit the Company’s Internet Web sites with a safe and secure Internet
environment that respects and protects their personal privacy.
The following privacy policy is in effect for every Web site maintained
or operated by the Company (the “Web site”), and we ask you to read it
thoroughly.
Our Pledge
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We will not release personally identifiable information about you if you have
specifically instructed us not to (except as may be needed to provide services
you have expressly requested, or if we believe disclosure is necessary under
one of the exceptions discussed below).
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We will provide mechanisms for you to communicate your privacy questions and
concerns to us and that we will make every effort to respond to them.
Your consent
By using the services provided to you through the Web site, you consent to the
collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We
reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, but all changes
will be posted to this page so that you are can remain informed as to what
information we collect and how we use it. Changes are effective when posted to
this page, and your continued use after any change is posted is an acceptance
of the change.
Helpful Definitions
"Personally identifiable information" is information-such as name, birth date,
e-mail address or mailing address, financial information and other types of
information that can be used to uniquely identify a user.
"Anonymous Information" is information that does not personally identify
you.This includes information on how you use our site (such as places visited
and search queries performed). Anonymous information also includes the domain
names and/or I.P. addresses (as explained in greater detail below) of browsers
that visit our site, time of day the site was visited, and other non-personally
identifiable information. Anonymous information is information that is not tied
to any individual.
Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Registration
You can visit our Web site without telling us who you are or revealing any
personally identifiable information about yourself to us. It is only when you
wish to receive additional services or goods that we may require you to
register with us by providing certain personally identifiable information and
we may ask you to select a user name and password and impose other requirements
under the Brief-Lynx™ Software license. The Company will use this information
to:
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Welcome you to the Web site.
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Send communications from to you about the Web site, including new features and
services available through the Web site.
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Share your information with affiliates, and allow them to contact you directly,
if you have consented to this beforehand.
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Verify your qualifications for receiving goods or services we offer over the
Web site or for other programs or activities.
If you indicate to us that you do not want to receive certain types of
communications at the time of registration, we will respect your wishes, and
comply with your preferences, however there may be cases where this will limit
the Web site services available to you.
Sharing Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
If we share Personally Identifiable information with third parties that you
have consented to, they may use the data we provide them (sometimes, in
connection with other information they may have gathered about you), but are
generally prohibited from sharing this information with other companies or
people without your consent.
PLEASE NOTE: In certain special cases, we may disclose your personally
identifiable information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this
information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be causing injury to you, or otherwise injuring or interfering
with the Company's rights, property or operations, other Web site users, or
anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We may also disclose your
personally identifiable information when we believe the law requires it, or in
response to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection with a
criminal investigation, or civil or administrative authorities in connection
with a pending civil case or administrative investigation. In all cases, even
though such disclosure may be necessary, we will exercise diligent efforts to
respect the confidential nature of substantive information arising from any
legal services you are performing for a client in which you have been using
eTrial’s Brief-Lynx™ software.
Anonymous Information
When you use the Web site, we may collect anonymous information, even if you
have not registered with the Company. We may use this information to examine
how the Web site is used or to help the Company improve the services it offers
to users. The Company will not share any anonymous information about your use
of the Web site with third parties if we know that this anonymous information
will be linked by third parties with personally identifiable information of
yours obtained from another source, unless we have given you notice as
described above and you have given us authorization to do so.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web
server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are harmless bits of
code that an Internet site assigns to your browser to keep track of who you are
when you use a Web site. There is no risk of the information on your hard drive
being exposed to the outside world since a web site can only read the cookies
it creates.
Cookies are sometimes used on the Internet to improve the delivery of services
to users by enabling the Web site to "customize" the particular services or
information offered to each user.
The Company may employ or use cookies from time to time. You will be given a
choice as to whether you want to participate in the use of cookies before they
are used. Third parties, however, may have their own policies about the use or
cookies, and the Company does not have control over these practices. You are
responsible for obtaining information about cookies on third party Web sites if
you believe this is important to know.
As a general rule, you can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the
settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or
allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not
to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites may be
diminished and some features will not work as intended.
Use of IP Addresses
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a set of numbers that is assigned to your
computer. Web servers - the powerful computers that provide web pages for
viewing - automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it
during your session online.
The Company may collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration and
to monitor and audit the use of the Web site. We can and will use IP addresses
to identify users of the Web site when we feel it is necessary to enforce
compliance with the Company's terms of use or terms of service, or to protect
our service, site, or other users. We will not share or sell linked user
behavior and personal user information with any third parties unless you have
given us authorization to do so.
PLEASE NOTE: Under certain circumstances, IP addresses and/or domain names may
be linked to personally identifiable information, when said information is
stored in databases managed by Internet registrars or registries such as
Network Solutions.
Third Party Relationships
WEB SITES THAT ARE OPERATED OR MAINTAINED BY THIRD PARTIES ARE NOT COVERED BY
THIS PRIVACY POLICY. Whenever you authorize the Company to share information
about you with third parties, you are responsible for determining whether the
third party employs an acceptable privacy policy. The Company does not
automatically make this determination for you, and does not warrant that any
particular third party maintains a privacy policy that is acceptable to you.
Security
The Company operates secure data networks protected by industry standard
procedures, to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of
your user data under our control. Only authorized employees have access to the
information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on employees
who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the
servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or
alteration to data will not occur; we will make every effort (such as the use
of employee passwords and non-disclosure agreements) to prevent such
unfortunate occurrences.
Contacting Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site,
please contact: 877.760.9045
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