Business Gauges™ strongly believes in your right for privacy. With this privacy policy we want to provide you with information regarding the collection and safety of data when you use our web site ("Site"), services, products, forums or other facilities and material accessible from the site.

Business Gauges™ adheres to the EU Safe Harbor principles regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information.

1. COLLECTED INFORMATION
You can browse most of our website without providing us any personal information at all. When engaging in specific activities you may be asked to provide us with personal information such as your name or e-mail address. You may choose not to engage in these activities, but if you do, some of the information we ask you to provide will be optional and you are not required to provide it to us.

When you use our website, we collect technical information such as your browser type, operating system and ip address. We use this information to ensure high quality of service and to measure traffic patterns. We do not correlate this information with any other personal information you provide us with.

2. BUSINESS GAUGES™ PUBLIC FORUMS
Our interactive web-based forums is a growing resource of information and an important communication channel for our customers. To use the forums you must create a user account. The information you provide during this procedure is not shared, disclosed or in any other way transfered to a 3rd party. Although it is possible to provide various information you may choose to provide only a username and your email address.

When you post a message in one of the forums, your registeration information is viewable by other users. You can choose to hide your provided details during the registration procedure.

Since information you post in the public forums is viewable by other users, you should make sure you do not provide any personal information such as passwords, email addresses or any other personal information you wish to keep private.

Our forums is based on phpBB and make use of coookies for personalisation.

3. PRODUCT SALES
Business Gauges™ sales are being processed by RegNow^® - a renowned internet payment service. You may review RegNow^® privacy policy here.

If you choose to purchase one of our products, you will be forwareded to the secure servers of RegNow^® to complete the purchase. You will be asked by RegNow^® to provide personal information such as your name, address and credit card number. RegNow^® use the SSL protocol to protect these transactions.

Business Gauges™ have no access to credit card information or any bank account detail you provide to RegNow^®. We recieve only your regisration information. We use this information to provide you with a license file.

Information we store when you purchase a product:

- Order ID
- Registration First and Last Name
- Address Information
- EMail
- Product ID
- Quantity
- Date of registration

Business Gauges™ uses this information to identify you as a registered customer, and to verify your elegibility for product upgrades and product promotions. It is important to remember that Business Gauges™ will never use this information activly. We will not send mails, e-mails or call you unless you initiate a request to us.

All data transfered between RegNow^® and our servers is encrypted and secured using SSL.

4. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Information obtained during support procedures may be used for training, knowledge base, faqs and documantation. We do not use nor record any personal information obtained during your support requests.

5. COOKIES
In order to improve our website and provide you with bettern user experience, we use "cookies" to track your visits. A cookie is small amount of data that is stored by your browser and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your identification card, and enables us to record your passwords, purchases, and preferences. Cookies cannot be executed or deliver viruses.

6. CODE SAFETY
Our products are shareware and as such do not contain any spyware or adware mechanisms. Some of our products have registration copy protection and may report illegal usage to our servers by sending the following information.

- client ip address
- offense timestap

Do not hestitate to contact us should you have any question, concerns, suggestions or complaints related to our privacy policy. Your feedback is very important to us.

Business Gauges™ reserves the right to change this policy at any time without notice.

Last updated by Business Gauges™, September 2006.
Effective September 2006.
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