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Thank you for visiting our website and reviewing our privacy policy. The purpose of this policy is to explain how we handle information we collect from you. It is important to keep in mind that we do not collect personally identifiable information (name, address, e-mail address or other unique identifiers) unless you register for our services.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically: When you visit our website to read pages or download information, we automatically collect and store the following non-identifying information:

The Internet protocol (IP) address from which you access our website. An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you are surfing the web.
The date and time our site is accessed, for the purpose of monitoring demand.
The pages visited, for the purpose of improving the usefulness of our website by providing helpful links and removing pages that are not read.

This information does not identify you personally. We maintain the above information in system logs. We use this information to make our site more useful to visitors by learning the number of visitors to our site, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for specific pages. We do not track or record information about identifiable individuals and their visits.

Information Collected from E-mail: When you send us personally identifying information in an e-mail, we use the information you provide only to help us gather the information you might request. In an effort to respond to your request, various people within Patentdata may view information you submit. Once received, the information to your e-mail is protected in accordance with law, (e.g. the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act).

Security, Intrusion, and Detection: For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

The following additional policies apply to subscribers of our services:

To register for our services you will have to provide us with personally identifiable information to enable us to provide you with our services. The information you provide will be entered into our database.
Patents listed on our database, as well as personally identifiable information contained therein, already form part of public domain information as published by Patent Offices on their databases. This is to facilitate the process whereby any person in the world that wishes to study and assess patents has the freedom to do so. The permission of inventors or patent owners to publish their patents and their personally identifiable information contained therein on our or other databases is therefore not required.
If you register as a subscriber, we do not make your personally identifiable information available to anyone unless required by law to do so.

Our services permit response by users. The following policies apply:

Should you respond as an unregistered participant, our system will recognize when a response on a specific patent or patent application on our database has already been made from the IP address from which you access our website. It will not be possible to make a second response. Our system does not identify you personally.
Should you respond as a registered participant, our system will recognize you as a registered participant. Neither your personal response, nor your identity is made available to anyone.

Questions concerning our policies may be addressed to: inquiries@patentdata.com