How We Collect Personal Information
Generally, you can visit our website without providing us with any personal information. However, we can obtain your personal information:
Directly from you. We collect personal information, such as your name and email address, directly from you when you write a review or submit content to our blog. Our visitors can opt to leave reviews or comments on any of the products listed on our blog. By submitting a review, you will be regarded as having read, understood, and accepted this Privacy Policy.
Indirectly from you. Some information is automatically collected using cookies and similar technologies when you navigate and interact with our blog, such as your operating system, IP address, Internet Service Provider, computer and browser as part of the normal course of business - to support our services and to provide better services to all our users.
Additionally, when you connect to our blog from other sources like a social media account, we will receive and store certain information from your social media account.
Sometimes we may collect personal and anonymous data about you from third parties and affiliates.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
The personal information we collect when you write a review or comment on the blog include:
Your name and email address. Your email address will be used to verify the validity of the review to ensure that fake and false reviews are not submitted. Occasionally, we may send you emails relating to your account and service announcement.
Other information that you may provide directly to us when communicating with us include full names, contact details, business email address, and job title.
Why We Use Personal Data
We use the information you provide to:
- Improve our services
- Improve the user experience of our website
- Enforce our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy
- Keep our website secure and avoid fraud and other illegal activities
- Perform research, analytics, and technical diagnostics regarding our website
- Perform functions as otherwise stated to you at the time of collection
Disclosing Personal Information
We may share your personal information with the providers of software and services listed on our blog, with our service providers, our affiliates, and any other third parties with whom you authorize us to share your personal data.
When you request more information about any of the products listed on the blog or request a demo of a product, we will share your personal data with the provider of the software with whom you have asked to be connected, in order to fulfill your request. We will share your personal data to the extent you provide it: First name and email address.
When you leave a comment or review on this blog, under your name or anonymously, any personal information associated with your comments or review may be shared with our affiliates and business partners. Additionally, the information may be displayed publicly on other sites, including social media networks, providers of the software listed on our blog, and third-party software marketplaces. We will share your personal data to the extent you provide it: first name and last initial, email address, and job title.
Retaining Personal Information
We use your personal data only to the extent required while maintaining your right to privacy. We will retain and use your personal information (name and email address) for as long as your review or comments remain published on our site.
Reviews and Comments
Submitting reviews and comments on the site is entirely voluntary. Please note that when you leave a review on our blog or partake in a discussion, your review(s) or comments will be publicly available on and off our site. Additionally, you have the option to submit reviews and comments anonymously.
Deleting Personal Information
To request to have your personal data, including your name and email address – which we collect from your reviews and any content that you submit to the site – deleted from our databases, please contact us through the provided email address.
If you posted a review or comment, but later change your mind, we will purge it. However, we cannot guarantee that others did not store your information prior to deleting the original post.
To verify the authenticity of your request, please use the email address that you provided when submitting the reviews or comments.
How We Safeguard Your Information
We care deeply about your privacy and we are committed to taking reasonable steps to safeguard the security of your personal data.
By using our site, you acknowledge that the transmission of data over the internet is never entirely secure. Our site is not responsible for any acts of unauthorized access and we do not guarantee that we will prevent such access.
Cookies
We may place small data files (known as ‘cookies’) on your device to collect information about how you use our website. Cookies keep a record of your actions and preferences, making subsequent visits to our website more efficient.
A cookie cannot access personal data from your hard drive or read cookies created by other sites. Visitors have the option to accept or decline cookies when using this blog. For more information on how to manage cookies, go to aboutcookies.org.
Cookies may store the following types of information:
- The number of times you viewed a specific page
- The number of times you accessed a particular website
- How much time you spend on a site
- How much time you spend on a page that you viewed
- Date and time of your browsing
- Your operating system
- The internet browser that you're accessing our site from
Most browsers are set to accept cookies but you can set them to block cookies via their respective settings. Additionally, you can erase all cookies from your browsers. However, all your preferences will be reset and certain functions may not function properly.
We may work with third parties that use cookies to help us display appropriate advertising when you visit our site. Third parties may place cookies on your web browser that allows them to collect information about you, such as the pages you view, the actions you take while on these pages, and the website you came from before visiting the current web page.
We are not responsible for information collected by third parties using cookies. Such details are covered by the third parties’ own privacy policy.
Website Links
This site contains links to other websites. We try to create links to sites that meet certain standards that maintain your right to privacy. However, many other sites that are not associated with or authorized by us may have links leading to this site.
We cannot and do not have control over these links and we are not to be held responsible for any content displayed by these sites. If you open a link to another website from this site, be aware that you're bound by the privacy policy of that third party and not our website.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may occasionally revise this Privacy Policy as necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with the changing environment. We will post any changes we make on this page, but it is your responsibility to check this page occasionally to make sure that you are aware of any changes we make to this policy.
Changes are effective immediately.
Children’s Privacy
Our site, and everything contained therein, is not directed to children under the age of 13 (and in certain jurisdictions, under the age of 16). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information of minors. In the event that it comes to our attention that a minor shared any personal information, we will promptly discard such information and terminate the minor’s account.