Privacy Policy
MathesisGroup understands that your privacyis important to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of yourpersonally-identifiable information as you use this website. This PrivacyPolicy tells you how we protect and use information that we gather from you. Byusing this website, you consent to the terms described in the most recentversion of this Privacy Policy. You should also read our Terms of Use tounderstand the general rules about your use of this website, and any additionalterms that may apply when you access particular services or materials oncertain areas of this website. “We,” “our” means MathesisGroup and itsaffiliates. “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user” means the individual accessingthis site.
PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treatyour personal and non-personal information.
WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW ISIT COLLECTED AND USED?
Non personal information is informationthat cannot identify you. If you visit this web site to read information, suchas information about one of our services, we may collect certain non-personalinformation about you from your computer’s web browser. Because non-personalinformation cannot identify you or be tied to you in any way, there are norestrictions on the ways that we can use or share non-personal information.What is personal information and how is it collected? Personal information isinformation that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailingaddress, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. We may collectpersonal information from you in a variety of ways: • When you send us anapplication or other form • When you conduct a transaction with us, ouraffiliates, or others • When we collect information about in you in support ofa transaction, such as credit card information • In some places on this website you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself,to elect to receive particular information, to purchase access to one of ourproducts or services, or to participate in an activity.
ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TOCOLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Yes, we may use cookies and relatedtechnologies, such as web beacons, to collect information on our web site. Acookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server.Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server inthe domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes ofcookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of acookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. Forexample, if you register with us, a cookie helps MathesisGroup to recall yourspecific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process ofrecording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shippingaddresses, and so on. When you return to the same MathesisGroup website, theinformation you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use thefeatures that you customized. A web beacon is a small graphic image that allowsthe party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain informationabout the viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such asthe type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computerthat the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Webbeacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, anyelectronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML basedcontent, can act as a web beacon. We may use web beacons to count visitors tothe web pages on the web site or to monitor how our users navigate the website, and we may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count howmany messages sent were actually opened, acted upon or forwarded. Third party vendors also may use cookies onour web site. For instance, we may contract with third parties who will usecookies on our web site to track and analyze anonymous usage and volumestatistical information from our visitors and members. Such information isshared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third partiesuse persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, to manageour site content, and to track visitor behaviour. We may also contract with athird party to send e-mail to our registered [users/members]. To help measure and improve theeffectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third party sets cookies. Alldata collected by this third party on behalf of MathesisGroup is used solely byor on behalf of MathesisGroup and is shared externally only on an anonymous,aggregated basis. From time to time we may allow third parties to postadvertisements on our web site, and those third-party advertisements mayinclude a cookie or web beacon served by the third party. This Privacy Policydoes not cover the use of information collected from you by third party adservers. We do not control cookies in such third party ads, and you shouldcheck the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learnabout their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad. Wewill not share your personal information with these companies, but thesecompanies may use information about your visits to this and other web sites inorder to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods andservices that may be of interest to you, and they may share your personalinformation that you provide to them with others. You have the ability to accept or declinecookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usuallymodify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose todecline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactivefeatures of the MathesisGroup websites you visit.
HOW DOES MATHESISGROUP USE PERSONALINFORMATION?
MathesisGroup may keep and use personalinformation we collect from or about you to provide you with access to this website or other products or services, to respond to your requests, to bill youfor products/services you purchased, and to provide ongoing service andsupport, to contact you with information that might be of interest to you,including information about products and services of ours and of others, or askfor your opinion about our products or the products of others, for recordkeeping and analytical purposes and to research, develop and improve programs,products, services and content. Personal information collected online maybe combined with information you provide to us through other sources We mayalso remove your personal identifiers (Name, email, social security number,etc). In this case, you would no longer be identified as a single uniqueindividual. Once we have de-identified information, it is non-personalinformation and we may treat it like other non-personal information. Finally,we may use your personal information to protect our rights or property, or toprotect someone’s health, safety or welfare, and to comply with a law orregulation, court order or other legal process.
DOES MATHESISGROUP SHARE PERSONALINFORMATION WITH OTHERS?
We will not share your personal informationcollected from this web site with an unrelated third party without yourpermission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy. In theordinary course of business, we may share some personal information withcompanies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In allcases in which we share your personal information with a third party for thepurpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep,disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose ofproviding the services we asked them to provide. We will not sell, exchange or publish yourpersonal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger,dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to ourdirect collection of information, our third party service vendors (such ascredit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such servicesas credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal informationdirectly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control howthese third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose howthey use your personal information before they collect it. If you submit a review for a third party(person or business) using our Facebook Fan Review Application, during thesubmission process we ask your permission to gather your basic information(such as name and email address) which we then share with the third party forwhom you are submitting the review. We may be legally compelled to release yourpersonal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant,law or regulation. We may cooperate with law enforcementauthorities in investigating and prosecuting web site visitors who violate ourrules or engage in behavior, which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal).We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that thedisclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’shealth, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court orderor other legal process. As discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies,from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on thisweb site. If you share information with theadvertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this Privacy Policy does notcontrol the advertisers use of your personal information, and you should checkthe privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn abouttheir use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FORCOMMUNICATIONS?
We may contact you periodically by e-mail,mail or telephone to provide information regarding programs, products, servicesand content that may be of interest to you. In addition, some of the featureson this web site allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If yourcommunication requests a response from us, we may send you a response viae-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include your personalinformation. We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be secure fromunauthorized interception.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?
We have implemented generally acceptedstandards of technology and operational security in order to protectpersonally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, ordestruction. Only authorized personnel and third party vendors have access toyour personal information, and these employees and vendors are required totreat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannotguarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personalinformation. LINKSThis site contains links to other sitesthat provide information that we consider to be interesting. MathesisGroup isnot responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. PUBLIC DISCUSSIONSThis site may provide public discussions onvarious business valuation topics. Please note that any information you post inthese discussions will become public, so please do not post sensitiveinformation in the public discussions. Whenever you publicly discloseinformation online, that information could be collected and used by others. Weare not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collectinformation that users disclose in any such forums on the web site. MathesisGroupdoes not agree or disagree with anything posted on the discussion board. Alsoremember that you must comply with our other published policies regardingpostings on our public forums.
HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/ORDELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You may access, correct, update, and/ordelete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the web site.You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the website. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the web siteon which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered orcontact us at info@mathesisgroup.com CHILDREN’S PRIVACYMathesisGroup will not intentionallycollect any personal information (such as a child’s name or email address) fromchildren under the age of 13. If you think that we have collected personalinformation from a child under the age of 13, please contact us. CHANGESMathesisGroup reserves the right to modifythis statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listedin this section, and if such changes are material, a notice will be included onthe homepage of the web site for a period of time. If you have any questionsabout privacy at any websites operated by MathesisGroup or about our websitepractices, please contact us at: info@mathesisgroup.com