Privacy Policy

Your privacy and security is very important to us. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices. If you give us personal information we will treat it according to this policy.

Your personal information is used in the following ways:

• User IDs and Passwords—Provide you with access to your profile areas and to protected content.
• Account Information—Tells us more about who you are, how to contact you, and your shipping and billing information. Also includes any preferences you have provided, such as language, e-mail format and interests.
• Customer Feedback and Support—Provides a mechanism for requesting information from PhishGuard. Also used to tell us how we can improve our products, services and site designs.
• E-mail Correspondence—Used to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types. Also used to distribute information about PhishGuard, our products, and services.
• Transactions—Show which products and services you have requested.

We will only use your personal information in the ways specified when it was collected. We will not subsequently change the way in which we use your personal information, unless you consent to the new usage.

We protect the personal information you share with us. For example, if you make an online purchase with us, we encrypt your credit card number. Access to your personal information is limited to people who need it to do their job.

Authorized third-party agents may also need access to some of your personal information. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of information needed to complete the requested service or transaction. We do not otherwise share your personal information with third-parties, unless you have granted us permission to do so.

We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may collect and possibly share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of PhishGuard's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We provide links to third-party sites. Since we do not control these Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) third-party sites.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our systems. PhishGuard encourages parents to go online with their kids. Here are a few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:

• Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
• Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
• Look for Web site privacy policies. Know how your child's information is treated.

Check out the FTC's site for more tips on protecting children's privacy online.

The PhishGuard Web site uses cookies. Cookies help us provide a better user experience by measuring which Web site areas are of greatest interest. PhishGuard also uses cookies when you register for one of our Web programs. In this situation, a cookie will store useful information that enables our Web site to remember you when you return. PhishGuard can only read cookies from the PhishGuard Web site.

If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still access most of our Web site. Some pages will not allow you to complete certain activities if cookies are disabled. For example, e-commerce uses session cookies and persistent cookies to process transactions. If you do not accept cookies, the associated shopping bag will not work and you will not be able to order.

We may display advertisements from third parties. Third-party ad-serving companies control which ads are shown. These ad-serving companies may use their own cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information from you. Advertisers use this information to target the ads and measure their impact.

We may use third parties to monitor web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-through', and other activities on our site. Where authorized by PhishGuard, such third parties may use cookies, PhishGuard's Web log files and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous aggregate statistics on PhishGuard's Web site visitors.

Current versions of Web browsers offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third party cookies. Search for Cookies under your Web browser's Help menu for more information on cookie management features available to you.

Information that you disclose in PhishGuard forums should be treated as public information. Please consider this and exercise caution before posting any information

We may process or store your information in our U.S. databases.

PhishGuard reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted on our Web site:  www.phishguard.com

Version 1.0
27 May 2004