Privacy Policy
This document was last updated November 7, 2008.
ABCCounter is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices for our website, www.abccounter.com on the World Wide Web (the "Site"), as well as for those who use of our product. You can travel through most of our Site without giving us any information about yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services that you request. The following statement explains our information-gathering and dissemination practices. Please read the complete ABCCounter Privacy Policy.
General Information
ABCCounter may periodically update this Privacy Policy. If so, ABCCounter will post the updated Privacy Policy on this Site. ABCCounter encourages you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time for any changes.
By using this Site or the product provided through the Site, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure of information as described in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS BELOW, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS SITE OR THE PRODUCT OFFERED BY ABCCOUNTER AT THIS SITE.
Please note that the ABCCounter Forum is covered by its own privacy policy, which is available for review at any time.
What Information We Gather/Track
Service Providers
ABCCounter uses "Avangate" a third-party provider of e-commerce solutions, and back-end facilitator to process your credit card information. Your credit card information does not pass through the ABCCounter Site. Avangate keeps your credit card information confidential and protects your credit card information through the use of industry-standard Secure Sockets (SSL) encryption technology.
Responses to Email Inquiries
When you send email inquiries to us, the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry we receive. We do not use the return email address for any other purpose and does not share the return email address with any third party. We may retain these emails for our records, only for use as a reference.
Reviews
If you submit a review, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit, such as your name, website, city and/or country of residence may be displayed on our site, where it could potentially be used by third parties to contact you, or send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in a review.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting children's privacy is especially important to us. It is our policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our Web site to persons eighteen years or older.
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
If You Opt to Receive Communications, How We Will Contact You
Email
With your permission, ABCCounter will send you communications, including informative emails/newsletters about product upgrades, product updates, new products, and services. These communications provide you with special offers that may be of interest to you, and may include paid advertisements from third parties. ABCCounter uses a third-party provider of outbound email technology to send email from their servers on our behalf. The provider does not collect information about you but does collect requests to unsubscribe.
Site Functionality
Cookies
Persistent "cookies" are small pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer on behalf of a Web site that you have visited. The Site does not use persistent cookies. In order to complete transactions on our site, we do use session cookies. These session cookies do not collect information about you, only about your browser session, and they are destroyed when you close your browser. No data is stored on your computer.
Log Files
We (ABCCounter and/or our contracted web analytics provider) do keep track of the domains from which you access our Site and Services on the World Wide Web, and may log IP addresses or other identifiers for statistical purposes. We do this to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use to identify and analyze trends and the results of our marketing efforts, to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Site and Services, and analyze users' movements. IP addresses and other identifiers are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Our Commitment to Data Security
Services and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.
Where to Direct Questions about Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us through the contact information provided on this Web site.