Your privacy is our concern. We've tried to minimize the amount of personal information we need to create and manage your Progressive Networks account. We want you to be aware of how this information is gathered and used. If you have any questions that are not answered by this policy, or would like to talk to us about anything in this policy, please contact us directly.
When you register for an account on Progressive Networks, we ask you to provide us with a user name, password, email address, name, and how you heard about us. In addition, Progressive Networks also collects other technical information such as your IP address and the date and time of your visit. This technical information does not directly identify you and is used solely to provide usage statistics of the services we provide.
Progressive Networks also collects information that you choose to provide when you make a post on one of our Support Forum Bulletin boards so that we can archive and display your posts. Please use caution - but don't be afraid - when posting material on any Progressive Networks Support Forum bulletin board as your posts become immediately available to the public and may be recorded and stored by anyone that can view them.
We understand that your personally identifiable information is private and confidential. Generally, we use your personally identifiable information to provide you with our services. For example, in order to verify your registration, we'll use the email address you supplied to send you a message after you register so that you can validate your account.
We also use registration information to ensure compliance with our Terms of Service and the law, and to better understand our user base. We aggregate technical information such as IP addresses and use those summary results to improve our services to you. None of this summary information is personally identifiable. We reserve the right to use or disclose any user information if we believe that a user is violating the law, our rights, or the rights of other Progressive Networks members.
Be assured that any personally identifiable information, such as your name or email address is not sold to others.
To make it clear, we do NOT sell ANY personal information to ANY third parties. We hate SPAM as much as you do, folks, and we're on your side.
However, we MAY send you email messages on a regular basis to keep you informed and up to date about happenings in regards to your account and about Progressive Networks in general.
Additionally, we may use third parties to help us perform services, like processing credit card information or other service-related functions. If these third parties require access to your personally identifiable information in order to provide their services, they will be asked to abide by this privacy policy when handing your information. While Progressive Networks will search for vendors that agree in principal with our privacy policy, however, Progressive Networks will not be held responsible for any third party's actions.
There are some situations where we may need to disclose information to organizations or entities not described in our policy here. First, we may be legally required to disclose your information if required by a subpoena or court order. If this happens, and it is permitted by legal authorities, we will attempt to notify you at least 15 days before any disclosure. We don't always agree with the way some laws work, but regardlessly, we must abide by them. However, if you're following the Terms of Service, there is no chance you're doing anything illegal and it shouldn't be an issue, right?
Keep in mind that it's your responsibility to keep us updated if your information, such as an email address, changes. If we cannot contact you because the email address you provided us is invalid for example, your account could be terminated. Likewise, it's your right to delete your account with Progressive Networksat any time you see fit. If you ever decide that you'd like to terminate your account with Progressive Networks, we'll be obliged to delete all information pertaining to your account unless otherwise requested.
Progressive Networks uses cookies on sections of its web site to help provide a more personalized browsing experience. While you are free to disable cookies on your browser to use our site, some of our features may not work if cookies are disabled and you will have to log on at the beginning of each session. Further information about what cookies are and how they are used can be found here.
Progressive Networks, at some future point, may choose to update or revise this privacy policy. We will provide conspicuous notice on our web site if we decide to change our privacy policy. At that time, you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not you can live with the changes that have been made and either choose to opt into the new policy and continue using your account or not agree, and opt out of the new policy. If you choose to opt out, you will no longer be able to take advantage of the services that Progressive Networks provides.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy still unanswered after reviewing this policy, please do not hesitate to contact Progressive Networks.