Last Updated: September 1, 2005
Welcome to www.torrentialdata.com. We want to contribute to providing a safe and secure online environment for our visitors and customers. This privacy policy describes (1) what types of personally identifiable information we may gather about you when you visit this web site, (2) how we may use that personally identifiable information, (3) under what circumstances we may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties, and (4) the choices you have regarding our use of your personally identifiable information.
What types of personally identifiable information may Torrential collect about me?
Torrential may ask you to provide various types of personally identifiable information to enhance your online experience. For example, during any registration process, Torrential may ask for information such as your name, email address, and postal address. We will indicate what types of personally identifiable information we may require of you before you receive the products, services, or information that you requested from us. Without this personally identifiable information, we may not be able to provide you with the requested products, services, or information.
How does Torrential use my personally identifiable information?
Our primary goal in collecting personally identifiable information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our site. Torrential uses the personally identifiable information you provide to us in several ways. Some examples follow: A user's personally identifiable information will be used by Torrential for administrative purposes such as to contact you as part of an online survey. We may also use the information provided by you to contact you with legal notices, or to advise you of any material changes in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.
Torrential also may research our users' demographics, interests and behavior based on the information you provide to us including upon registration, on order forms, during a promotion, as well as from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis, and Torrential may share this anonymous, aggregated data with other businesses.
Do other companies or people have access to personally identifiable information I provide to Torrential?
When you visit our site and are asked for personally identifiable information, you are providing that information to Torrential, its subsidiaries, divisions or affiliates, or vendors providing contractual services for Torrential (such as hosting vendors and list managers).
Promotions.
If we run promotions or contests on the site, you may be required to provide information such as your telephone number and address to participate. The exact rules may vary in each case, but the specific rules for any contest will state how that information may be used. Promotions that run on our site may be sponsored by companies other than Torrential or may be co-sponsored by Torrential and another company. Some or all personally identifiable information provided by you during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor of a promotion. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your personally identifiable information to be shared. In certain circumstances, you may not be able to participate in a particular promotion if you chose not to share personally identifiable information.
Links.
Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information directly from you. The information practices of these companies are not covered by this privacy statement.
Other.
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personal information (whether on this site or on another site) on message boards, chat areas or in other public discussion areas, that information could be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. We do not control the privacy policies of our advertisers, sponsors or other sites or businesses to which we provide links or access. Please visit the sites of these businesses to review their privacy policies.
Special Circumstances.
Torrential may disclose your personal information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Use or may be causing injury to, or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally), Torrential's rights or property, other Torrential users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Data Security.
We have in place certain procedures to protect the information we collect online. However, as effective as these measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.
What information do web servers collect?
Web servers serving Torrential automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information, such as which pages each user visits and the domain name of visitors. This information is used for various purposes including internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors, and for traffic audits. We also may provide this information (as well as information from third-party market researchers) about our users on an aggregated, anonymous basis to our advertisers.
What are cookies and how does Torrential use them?
Torrential may place a "cookie" on your computer to store and sometimes track information about you. We may use this information to determine when your computer has visited a web site. We may also use this information for other purposes such as measuring certain traffic patterns. For example, cookies may be used to ensure that you do not have to reenter your login name or password during your visit. Advertising service vendors that serve ads into our site may also use their own cookies.
Although Torrential cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, we may combine information collected through cookies with personally identifiable information we collect from you to enable us to compensate our vendors and partners that may have referred you to Torrential.
Keep in mind that you may be served cookies from our advertisers while visiting our site. We do not control, nor do we have access to any of the information they may collect.
How will Torrential update this Privacy Policy?
Technology on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we need to change our policy in the future, we will post these changes at this site as soon as they go into effect.
