Luminary Micro® Privacy Policy
Luminary Micro, Inc. (“Luminary Micro”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. When using Luminary Micro’s website, located at the URL www.LuminaryMicro.com (the "site") and/or services and/or products provided on the Site, you may provide us with personally identifiable information. Luminary Micro asks for and maintains the personally identifiable information of its visitors and customers to provide a better, more personal experience on the Site and to deliver certain services or information to you. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices. If you give us personal information, we will treat it according to this policy.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies
Luminary Micro employs cookies in order for its server to recognize a return visitor as a unique user. Cookies are small text files placed in the 'Cookies' folder on a visitor's hard disk and allow for Luminary Micro to remember the visitor. The cookies placed by the Luminary Micro server are readable only by Luminary Micro, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on a computer.
Some Luminary Micro websites also use web beacons or other technologies to better tailor those Sites to provide better customer service. These technologies may be in use on a number of pages across our Sites. When a visitor accesses these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers. These web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you do not want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off cookies.
If you turn off cookies, web beacons and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
Information Gathered
The Luminary Micro system will gather information such as what kind of browser a visitor is on, what operating system they are using, their IP address, cookie information, time stamp (time page accessed as well as time spent per web page) and their clickstream information (for example, which pages they have viewed and how long they have been there). Please note that information is only gathered while the visitor is on the Site. Luminary Micro monitors how a visitor arrives at the Site, but cannot and will not gather information about other third party sites the user has visited. Luminary Micro automatically receives and records such information on our server logs from your browser.
In certain sections of the Site, Luminary Micro may invite you to contact us with questions, request information, or complete a registration form. We may ask for personally identifiable information to be entered as a means of registration before accessing a certain part of the Site, including, without limitation, your name, e-mail address, password, login ID and other contact information that you voluntarily transmit with your communication to us. Visitors of the Site can always opt not to enter any information about themselves.
Luminary Micro may also collect personally identifiable information when you use certain Luminary Micro products or services, through the use of the Site or hypersite web pages, or when you enter promotions or contests offered by Luminary Micro on and through the Site.
Usages of Information
Luminary Micro uses your personally identifiable information to register you to use Luminary Micro's services, contact you to deliver certain services or information you have requested, verify your authority to enter into certain areas of the Site, improve the content and general administration of the Site and our services, provide you with notices regarding our services and understand our visitors and, with permission, provide visitors with updates on Luminary Micro and its products.
Some of the ways we may use your personal information include: to provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content; to provide the ability to contact you; to provide customer feedback and support; to provide contests, sweepstakes or other marketing promotional activities on our corporate website or affiliate websites (personal information may be collected to administer those programs); to conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better products and services to our customers and end users (your completion of any questionnaires is voluntary); to understand more about you so we can personalize newsletters and websites to your preferences. The Site may track information that will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and which will not contain your personally identifiable information, for example andwithout limitation, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, External Web Sites (defined below) linked to, and IP addresses. Luminary Micro may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, and we may use such aggregate information to administer the Site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Sharing your Personal Information
We do not sell, rent, or provide your personal information to third parties for sales/marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission to do so or explicitly requested that a sales person contact you. We may share your personal information within Luminary Micro or any of our worldwide subsidiaries for purposes of data processing or storage.
We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction. Luminary Micro will disclose your personally identifiable information (a) only if required to do so by law, regulation, or other government authority or otherwise in cooperation with an ongoing investigation of a governmental authority, (b) to enforce the Luminary Micro Terms and Conditions agreement or to protect our rights or (c) to protect the safety of users of the Site and our services.
Luminary Micro may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization in which Luminary Micro’s participates or to a purchaser or acquirer of all or substantially all of Luminary Micro’s assets to which the Site relates.
We will ask you for your opt-in consent to share your personal information with a third party for any other reason.
Use of Third Parties
In some cases Luminary Micro uses third parties to collect, use, analyze, and otherwise process information on its behalf. It is our practice to require such suppliers to handle information in a manner consistent with our policies.
Links to Third Party Sites
While navigating our Site you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third party supplier. This is typically done to host special events, such as contests. When information is collected on behalf of Luminary Micro exclusively, Luminary Micro's Privacy Policy will govern how your information is used. It is our practice to require our suppliers to handle information in a manner consistent with our privacy and security policies.
The Site may provide links to other websites or resources over which Luminary Micro does not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Luminary Micro of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that Luminary Micro is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that Luminary Micro is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.
Newsgroups and Forums
If you participate in a Luminary Micro newsgroup or forum, you should be aware that the information you provide there will be made broadly available to others who have access to that discussion forum or chat room. Also, please recognize that individual forums and chat rooms may have additional rules and conditions. Each participant's opinion on a forum or chat room is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Luminary Micro.
Opting out of marketing communications
Luminary Micro believes in permission-based marketing. While most of our visitors appreciate the services that registration on this site allows us to provide, we respect the right of each visitor to control how his or her personally identifiable information is used. Each registered user of the Site can control their communications from Luminary Micro by configuring their email preferences in their user profile, or by clicking on a link provided at the bottom of every e-mail communication.
Security
Luminary Micro may employ procedural and technological measures, consistent with industry practice, that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
Reservation of Rights
Luminary Micro reserves the right to change the terms of this privacy policy at any time and will post notice of the updated Privacy Policy on our site located at http://www.LuminaryMicro.com/home/privacy.html so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. Luminary Micro may also send registered users of the Site e-mail notifications notifying such users of any changes to the Privacy Policy. Luminary Micro encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of the Site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to use will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.
Questions or comments
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Policy updates
This Privacy Policy was last updated: November 18, 2007
This Privacy Policy is effective as of: November 18, 2007
