| Updated
as of March 1, 2008
This
Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices
for the Blue Wave Wireless, Inc. ("BWW")
website. BWW is committed to respecting your privacy
rights when visiting any BWW website, such as this
one. To protect your Personal Information (as defined
below), BWW has created the guidelines outlined
below. To ensure accuracy and security, BWW reviews
and updates this privacy policy from time to time
as needed without notice. Therefore, you should
review the terms of this privacy policy periodically
to make sure that you are aware of how BWW collects
and uses personal information. By using our web
site, you consent to the collection and use of your
personal information by BWW. Any changes to this
policy will be promptly posted on this page, with
an updated "effective date" posted at
the end of this policy. By using our website, you
consent to the collection and use of your personal
information by BWW.
Information Collected:
While
visiting any of the BWW websites (collectively,
the "Site"), we may ask you to register
and/or provide information that personally identifies
you ("Personal Information") for purposes
of interacting with the Site. Such Personal Information
may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone
number, street address, and e-mail address. On any
page that collects Personal Information, we will
specifically describe what information is required
in order to provide you with the product or service,
enter you in the promotion you have requested, or
respond to your inquiry or comment.
BWW
uses "cookies". A cookie is a small data
text file that a website can transfer to a visitor's
hard drive to keep records of the visits to such
site. A cookie contains information such as your
username and password that helps us recognize the
pages you have visited and improve future visits,
but the only personal information a cookie can contain
is the information that you provide yourself. A
cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or
read cookie files created by other sites. Information
stored in cookies is encrypted, however, we do not
store your credit card number in cookies. The Site
can only access the information from a cookie sent
by the Site. We cannot access cookies sent by other
web sites or the information contained therein.
Additionally, we cannot learn your e-mail address
or any other information about you through the use
of a cookie. The only way we would learn such information
is if you specifically and voluntarily submit that
information to us, for example, through a registration
system, or by entering a sweepstakes or promotion.
We
could use an advertising server developed by a third
party to display ads on the Site. Some of these
ads may contain cookies that are sent by third parties
(e.g. advertising agencies or advertising clients).
We do not have access to these cookies or any information
that they contain. We encourage you to contact the
advertiser or its privacy policy for more information
on these cookies. Links from other Web sites that
appear on the Site may also send cookies; but we
do not control such activities.
Why
does the Site use cookies? BWW uses cookies to track
usage of the Site and further personalize your experience
when you are visiting the Site. By tracking usage,
we can best determine what features of the Site
best serve the users.
What
benefits do I receive from cookies? Overall, the
use of cookies helps to give you a more personalized
experience at the Site. The information is used
to keep our Site fresh and relevant to you the user.
Cookies also identify you to our server, allowing
you to avoid retyping your e-mail address and password
each time you access the Site.
May
I decline to accept a cookie? You may decline to
accept cookies sent by the Site by selecting an
option on your browser to reject cookies. However,
portions of the Site which require registration
will not be accessible to you. In such cases, we
ask that you register and provide us with basic
information on our registration page, or sign in
if previously registered. Cookies enable our server
to know that you are a registered user, and will
eliminate the need for you to log in each time you
access our Site.
IP Addresses: BWW logs IP addresses, or the location
of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration
and troubleshooting purposes and to determine site
usage. Your IP address does not contain personal
information about you.
Use of Personal Information
We
believe in protecting your privacy, and will not
share Personal Information with third parties outside
of BWW , except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We believe we can enhance your experience on our
Site with the information you share with us. We
use Personal Information about you to improve our
advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically
analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product
offerings and to personalize the Site's content,
layout, and services. We may also use your Personal
Information, such as your e-mail address or mailing
address, to contact you regarding products and/or
services that may be of interest to you, to respond
to an inquiry from you regarding the information
that we have collected, or respond to your comments
and suggestions.
BWW
may match specific and/or aggregated Personal Information
with third party data to provide you with product
and content offerings that interest you and improve
our advertising and marketing efforts. BWW also
may disclose aggregated user statistics in order
to describe our services to potential advertisers,
partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies,
and for other lawful purposes.
We
may provide Personal Information to our affiliated
companies in order to improve our marketing and
advertising efforts and your experience with our
Site. Although this Privacy Policy generally applies
only to BWW, and not to activities or information
collected by our offline partners, in the event
we share Personal Information you provide us on
the Site, we will require that our affiliated companies
comply with this policy with respect to that information
and protect your information in the same way we
do.
We
reserve the right to disclose Personal Information
when needed to comply with the law or a legal process,
cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful
activities, to identify persons violating the law,
or in connection with the sale of part or all of
BWW's or its affiliate's stock or assets.
Party Collecting the Information
This
Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination
of information that we collect from you. To the
extent that you disclose any information to other
parties, whether through, for example, blogs, bulletin
boards, and the like, through third party services
or promotions offered on or through the Site or
through other web sites throughout the Internet,
different policies may apply and BWW shall not be
responsible for the use or dissemination of such
information.
The
Site may offer forums, message boards, or chat rooms
as one of the services on the Site. If you disclose
personal information in one of these forums, this
information becomes public information, can be viewed,
collected, and used by others and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information. BWW is not responsible for the use
of information you disclose in these forums. We
encourage you to consult the Forum Rules regarding
the policies and procedures that apply to that portion
of the Site.
Our
Sites may operate as part of a larger group of sites,
and may carry co-branded pages. In addition, other
sites may use the Site's or BWW's name. Since BWW
does not control the privacy policies of third parties,
you are subject to the privacy customs and policies,
if any, of such third parties, and BWW shall not
be responsible for the use or dissemination of your
private information by such parties. Therefore,
we encourage you to ask questions and review those
parties' privacy policies before you disclose your
Personal Information to others.
Links to Other Materials
Third
party sites linked to and from the Site are not
under the control of BWW. BWW shall have no responsibilities
or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy
practices of any such linked site or any link or
linking program at any time. BWW does not endorse
companies (or related products or services) to or
from which the Site is linked. If you decide to
access any of the third party sites linked to the
Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
Children's
Privacy
BWW
cares about the safety of children and their use
of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998,
we will never knowingly request or solicit personally
identifiable information from anyone under the age
of 13 without verifiable parental consent. In the
event that we receive actual knowledge that we have
collected such personal information without the
requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will
delete that information from our database as quickly
as is practicable.
Security
BWW
maintains above industry standard safeguards to
ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of the
Personal Information that you provide to BWW.
Successor in Interest
We
reserve the right to convey any information we collect
from or about you to a successor in interest.
Terms of Use
Please
also see BWW's Terms and Conditions, which describes
the use, disclaimers, indemnification and limitation
of liability governing the use of the entire Site.
Contacting Us
If
you have any questions or comments about our Privacy
Policy, please e-mail us at webmaster@bluewavewireless.com
Effective Date and Changes
This
Privacy Policy is effective as of March 1, 2008.
BWW reserves the right to modify the terms of this
policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by
posting a change notice to this page. Your continued
use of the Site following our posting of a change
notice will constitute binding acceptance of those
changes.
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