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Introduction Cobalt understands and respects your concerns about privacy. This website provides information and resources related to the services offered by Cobalt and our goal is to provide you with a positive experience by delivering information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to inform you of what kinds of information we may gather and how we may use that information. Also, certain aspects of use of this site or information collected through this site may be covered by our contracts, if any, with customers. Information Collected User-Supplied Information In order to use some functions or access some areas on this website, you may be required to first supply personal information through an online form. Online forms may provide you with an opportunity to request company and product information, request product demos, view Cobalt white papers, register for Cobalt events, or enroll for various services including training, consulting and support. All information provided by you is voluntary, with information generally including name, address, company, and e-mail. Information you supply to us is used to ensure quality customer service, as feedback on our products, services or this website, or to comply with state and federal regulations. We may use and/or disclose to third parties information you provide to us to improve services to you, to administer the website, or to compile aggregate information for statistical purposes. We do not, however, sell user-supplied information to third parties. Surveys From time-to-time, we may request information from visitors via email surveys or surveys on this website. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of our products and services. Newsletter If you wish to subscribe to one or more of our newsletters, you must opt in. At that point we ask for contact information such as name and email address. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter you can unsubscribe when you receive it by clicking on a link at the bottom of the newsletter. You will then be given an opportunity to opt in or out of future newsletters. Cookies We may use "cookies" to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our visitors to simplify and enhance their experience on our site (e.g. pre-filling forms similar to those you may have already completed). The cookie information is only available to our server when you are actively visiting our website. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it. Log Files We may use IP addresses in log files to analyze trends, administer the website, track your navigation of the website, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Log files do not enable us to access personally identifying information, such as email addresses. Information Disclosure We do not sell or rent your personal information to others. We may choose to do so in the future with trustworthy third parties, but you can instruct us not by contacting us. In addition, we may be required to disclose your personally identifiable information to a third party (a) such as in the case of the sale of all or a portion of our business or assets, (b) to protect the rights, property or safety of Cobalt, our visitors, or others, or (c) if required to do so by law or to comply with judicial or governmental investigations. Visitors can request their personal information at any time by contacting us. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure your right to privacy by reviewing, qualifying and validating visitor information requests before disseminating such information. Security We take appropriate precautions to protect your personally identifiable information. This includes, among other things, using industry standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection and site monitoring. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us. This is especially true for information you transmit to us via e-mail. We have no way of protecting that information until it reaches us. Once we receive your transmission, we strive to ensure its security on our servers. Internally, we appropriately restrict the persons who have access to your personally identifiable information. We review our security arrangements from time to time as we deem appropriate. Links This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Cobalt is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of websites that collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected at this website. Children Cobalt products and services are solely for use by businesses. Therefore, we do not expect children under the age of 18 to provide us with any personally identifiable information. Changes to Privacy Statement Any changes to this statement will be posted at this location and will take effect immediately after they are posted. Collection of data from that point on will be subject to the new policy. You may wish to check back from time to time to be aware of any changes to the statement. Contacting Us Cobalt welcomes your comments or questions regarding this Privacy Statement or your dealings with this website; please contact us by e-mail, or postal mail. Email: Mail: The Cobalt Group, Inc. Attn: Legal Department 2200 First Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134-1408 |
