
Last Updated: August 31, 2007
Blueforce Development Corporation (“Blueforce,” "we," "us" and "our") respects the privacy of our website visitors. This Privacy Policy covers how Blueforce through its provision of products and services (collectively, the “Services”) treats information, including personally identifiable information, that the Services collect and receive from you on the public area of our website (hereinafter referred to as either “website” or “site”) and how we use that information. If you have additional questions that are not answered here, click here to contact us. By accessing or using the Blueforce site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and accept this privacy policy and its terms.
On this site we provide information about Blueforce, its Services related to information sharing software for mobile devices, as well as our professional services.
Information We Collect
To better serve site visitors, Blueforce collects two basic types of information:
- Personally identifiable information: This is information that personally identifies one individual from another (for example, names, e-mail addresses, physical addresses, telephone numbers and other related contact information, as well as billing information and credit card information ). This information is voluntarily provided to us by our site visitors and is used by us for the purpose of fulfilling requests for further information or other inquiries. We do not intentionally or knowingly collect personally identifiable information about children under the age of 13. Please see the section on “Children’s Privacy” below.
- Aggregate user and tracking information: Like most websites, Blueforce also receives and records information on our server logs from your browser automatically and through the use of electronic tools such as cookies. Our server logs automatically receive and record information from your browser (including, for example, the page(s) you visit). The information gathered through these methods is not “personally identifiable information,” i.e., it cannot be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single, individual person. This information gives us insights on how our site visitors use our site. We use this information to ensure that our website, e-mails and marketing efforts continue to appeal to our site visitors.
Information you Voluntarily Provide to Blueforce
Blueforce only collects personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide when you sign up to receive further information about our company or our other products or services. Examples of such personally identifiable information that you provide to us may include, among other information, your name, physical address, email address, and website user name. In the event you purchase products from the site, we will collect this information as well as billing information and a credit card number.
Blueforce only requires personally identifiable information from you when it is needed to complete your request for information from the public area of the website or when you voluntarily decide to become a member to receive communications from us or otherwise purchase our Products or Services.
You may Refuse to Accept Cookies from Blueforce
When you visit the Blueforce website, we may automatically collect some information about your visit using cookies, log analysis software and other aggregate tracking technologies. If you wish, you may set your browser to refuse cookies. However, by refusing to accept a cookie, you may not be able to access some pages or use some of the functions of our site. Some Blueforce cookie files will remain on your computer’s hard drive unless and until you manually delete the files. Blueforce cookie files do not contain personally identifiable information or track an individual users’ movement through our site.
How Blueforce uses the Information we collect
Blueforce will use your information only as permitted by law, and subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy. Blueforce will not sell, share or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information collected from you without your consent.
Personally identifiable information
Blueforce may use your information, including personally identifiable information, for business purposes including, without limitation, for the following business purposes:
- To provide the Services we offer; to process billing; for identification, registration confirmation and authentication purposes; to communicate with you concerning security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the site and Services; to improve Services; to do something your have asked us to do; or to tell you of Services that we think may be of interest to you.
- To improve the quality of your Blueforce site visit.
- To send marketing communications and informational newsletters that you have requested, opted into or otherwise agreed to receive.
- To send surveys to you.
- To update your user account with any information we receive from you or from third-party sources about you.
- For the administration of and troubleshooting regarding the site (certain third parties such as our service providers, contractors and select vendors provide technical support for the operation of the site and may need to access information from time to time, but are restricted from disclosing the information to others or use the information for purposes other than providing services to Blueforce).
Also, Blueforce may use your information, including personally identifiable information, as follows:
- We may share your personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with the law or with legal process (such as pursuant to court order, subpoena, or a request by law enforcement officials); (2) protect, enforce, and defend our Terms of Use, and the rights, property or safety of Blueforce or its partners, employees or affiliates; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this site; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions.) .
- In the event Blueforce, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that Blueforce goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, website user information, including personally identifiable information, would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Blueforce or any of its assets may continue to use your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
- We may provide access to or transfer any information you submit to us when we have your consent to do so, or when we need to provide such access or transfer it in order to provide the information or Service you requested.
Non-personally Identifiable Information
Blueforce may use your non-personally identifiable information it collects during your site visit or during your interaction with our e-mails for other purposes including without limitation, the following:
- To better monitor in aggregate the effectiveness of our online and offline advertising and marketing campaigns.
- To better monitor in aggregate how visitors are using our site.
- To ensure that our website and e-mails continue to provide relevant content that is interesting and useful to our visitors.
- To uncover and diagnose problems with our site and servers.
- For day-to-day system administration needs.
What you will Receive from Blueforce
We only will send you communications and information that you expect to receive or that you have requested. All of our e-mail contains clear information on how to unsubscribe, and we honor all requests as quickly as possible. Below are several examples of communications you may receive from us:
Registration Confirmation e-mail Messages
When you register for any products via the Blueforce site, you will receive an e-mail confirming your registration.
Marketing or promotional e-mails
If you sign up for one of our marketing or newsletter e-mails, we will send you the marketing e-mail and/or newsletters that you have requested.
We only send marketing and newsletter e-mails to site visitors who sign up for one of our mailing lists or who agree to future contact regarding communications from Blueforce. These mailings contain clear information on how to unsubscribe.
If you are receiving communications from us and wish to unsubscribe, either follow the unsubscribe instructions in the communication or follow the opt-out instructions below to inform us that you do not want to receive e-mail from Blueforce.
Postal Mail
Blueforce may also send you communications via postal mail. If you are receiving postal mail communications from us and wish to unsubscribe, either follow the unsubscribe instructions in the communication or follow the opt-out instructions below to inform us that you do not want to receive e-mail from Blueforce.
Answering Your Inquiries
If you email, telephone in or send by postal service a question or offer a suggestion, we may use your e-mail address, telephone number or postal address to respond to you.
How Blueforce Protects your Information
The safety and security of your personally identifiable information is extremely important to you and Blueforce. Accordingly, Blueforce has implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect visitor information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot guarantee the security of your personally identifiable information, and Blueforce expressly disclaims any such obligation.
About this Policy
The Blueforce privacy policy was posted on the date set forth above. Blueforce reserves the right to change, alter or modify this policy for any reason at any time without notice to you. When we do so, changes in our privacy policy will be posted on our site and will be effective immediately. If you are a regular visitor to this site, we recommend that you check this privacy policy on a regular basis.
Children’s Privacy
The site is not intended for use by individuals under 18 years of age. Blueforce does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18 at our site. In the event a child under the age of 18 submits a question to us at our site and identifies his or her age, we may use the child’s email address for the sole purpose of responding to the child’s question on a one-time-only basis. However, we will not use the child’s email address for further contact and we will remove the address from our records after we have initially responded.
International Users
This site is hosted from the United States. Users located outside of the United States consent to the transfer of their data to the United States for processing and use in accordance with this privacy policy.
External Links
The Blueforce site may include links to other websites whose privacy policies we do not control. Once you leave our site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting.
Accessing and updating your information; Opting out
Visitors who would like to correct, update or delete any personally identifiable information may contact us with a request to do so at privacy @ blueforcedev.com. Similarly, Blueforce site users or members who wish to subscribe or unsubscribe to our marketing and informational communications can do so by using the subscribe/unsubscribe options or sending an email to privacy @ blueforcedev.com. We may take a reasonable period of time to respond to any request to update or modify any information, or to opt out of or unsubscribe from any communications. If you request the deletion or modification of your personal information maintained by us, such information may be retained for a period of time in our backup systems as a precaution against system failures. Some information may be retained for longer periods as required by law, contract or auditing requirements.
If you have questions
If you ever have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us. We respect your rights and privacy, and will be happy to answer any questions or concerns you might have.
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