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Privacy Policy
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Thank you for visiting our web site 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.
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Privacy Policy for All Visitors
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Information Collected and Stored Automatically: When you visit our web site 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 web site. 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 web site 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, information you submit may be viewed by various people within Patentdata.com. 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.
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Privacy Policy for Subscribers
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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 therefor 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.
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Privacy Policy for Respondents to Surveys
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Our market research method permits response over the Internet. The following policies apply to information provided by you in response to a research questionnaire:
- Should you respond as an unregistered participant, our system will recognize when a response to a survey on a specific patent on our database has already been made from the IP address from which you access our web site. 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. You may also receive e-mail requests from us from time to time to respond to surveys on patents within your selected areas of interest.Neither your personal response to our research questionnaire or your identity is made available to anyone.
Questions concerning our policies may be addressed to:
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