Privacy Policy

Last updated: Oct 19, 2011.

We recognize that your privacy is very important and take it seriously.

This Privacy Policy describes Inqwise's policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the Inqwise Service, via the Inqwise website, application programming interface (API), your mobile phone, or through one of Inqwise's applications for mobile devices. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Use.

1. Information We Collect and Use

Inqwise uses information we collect to analyze how the Service is used, diagnose service or technical problems, maintain security, personalize content, remember information to help you efficiently access your account, monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns, and track User Content and users as necessary to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable laws.

User-Provided Information: You provide us information about yourself, such as your name and e-mail address, if you register for a member account with the Service. Your name and other information you choose to add to your profile will be available for public viewing on the Service. You may provide us with your mobile phone number if you choose to submit questions and receive answers via text message. We may use your email address to send you Service-related notices (including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail). You can control receipt of certain Service-related messages on your Settings page. We may also use your contact information to send you marketing email messages. If you do not want to receive such messages, you may opt out by following the instructions in the message. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses.

We may also use other Internet technologies, log files, clear GIFs, Flash technologies, and other similar technologies, to deliver or communicate with cookies and track your use of the Service. We also may include clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to determine whether the message has been opened. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather additional information through other methods.

We use these automated technologies to collect and analyze certain types of information we consider to be non-personal information, including:

  • (a) information related to the devices you use to access or interact with the Service, such as: IP addresses, geolocation information, unique device identifiers and other information about your mobile phone or other mobile device(s), browser types, browser language; and
  • (b) information related to the ways in which you interact with the Service, such as: referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, the number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time you used the Service, and other similar information. We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results.

Inqwise may allow third parties to serve advertisements on the Service and use other third parties to help us collect and analyze information about your use of the service, generate aggregate site usage statistics and provide content sharing services to support the Service. These third parties may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect similar non-personal information about your use of the Service. Inqwise does not control the third parties' use of such technologies and their use is governed by those parties' privacy policies. For more information about third-party ad networks that use these technologies, and to opt-out of their collection of information, see http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

2. With Whom We Share Information

We do not share the contents of documents, information about users and other data related to Inqwise account maintained and stored by us with any third party.

3. How Secure is Your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored in your account. Access to your name and email address is restricted to our employees only who need to know such information in connection with our products and services and are bound by confidentiality obligations.

4. Your Choice in Information Use

You will be required to register for our services by providing personal information. You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case we may not be able to provide those services to you. While using our services, you are not allowed to opt out from receiving information on versions, updates, service packs. We will obtain your prior consent for use of your personal information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected or the purposes described in this privacy policy. In such cases we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of your personal information for those other purposes.

5. Accessing, Updating and Removing Personal Information

Upon request we provide users with access to their personally identifiable information free of charge. Users may correct, update or remove any such personally identifiable information either through the users profile or by contacting Inqwise Support Services at support@inqwise.com. Such changes may take up to 48 hours to take effect.

6. Links to Other Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Service, nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Service to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies.

7. Enforcement of Privacy Policy

We make every effort including periodic reviews to ensure that personal information provided by you is used in conformity with this privacy policy. If you have any concerns regarding our adherence to this policy or the manner in which personal information is used on our websites, kindly contact Inqwise Support Services at support@inqwise.com. We will contact you to address your concerns and we will also co-operate with regulatory authorities in this regard.

8. Notification of Changes

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on our Websites in order to keep you informed of any changes in nature of information collected and manner of collection, use and sharing of information. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at ,http://www.inqwise.com/en-us/privacy periodically.

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Oct 19, 2011.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at legal@inqwise.com.