Your privacy is important to Abacus. Our Privacy Policy covers how we collect, use and store your information. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our policies and let us know if you have any questions.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Personal information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact an individual. You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with Abacus. Abacus will only use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. We may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
Here are some examples of the types of personal information Abacus may collect and how we may use it.
What personal information we collect
When you participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address(es), phone number(s), email address(es) and contact preferences.
When invite others to join you on Abacus forums, we may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address(es), email address(es), and phone number(s).
How we use your personal information
The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on Abacus’s latest announcements / updates and upcoming events. It also helps us to improve our services, content, and advertising. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out at anytime by sending an email to oo@abacusgroupllc.com.
We also use personal information to help us develop, deliver, and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about changes to our terms, conditions and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with Abacus, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.
We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve Abacus’s products, services, and customer communications.
Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information
We also collect non-personal information − data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
Occupation
Language
Zip Code
Area Code
Location
Time Zone
If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.
Cookies and Other Technologies
Abacus’s website and email messages may use “cookies� and other technologies. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Abacus also uses cookies and other technologies to remember personal information when you use our website, online services, and applications. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with Abacus more convenient and personal. For example, knowing your first name lets us welcome you the next time you visit the website. Knowing your country and language helps us provide a customized experience. Knowing someone using your computer has used a particular service helps us make our advertising and email communications more relevant to your interests. And knowing your information helps us provide you with better customer service.
If you want to disable cookies, please feel free to do so, but, please note that certain features of the Abacus website will not be available once cookies are disabled.
As is true of most websites, we gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information to understand and analyze trends, to administer the site, to learn about user behavior on the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Abacus may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.
In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL� linked to content on the Abacus website. When users click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages.
Pixel tags enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read, and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.Â
Disclosure to Third Parties
It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for Abacus to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance,
disclosure is necessary or appropriate.
We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.
Protection of Personal Information
Abacus takes precautions — including administrative, technical, and physical measures — to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Abacus uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is collected. Doing so protects the confidentiality of your personal information while it’s transmitted over the Internet.
When you use some Abacus products or services, or post on an Abacus forum or chat room, the personal information you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these instances. For example, if you list your name and email address in a forum posting, that information is public. Please take care when using these features.
Integrity and Retention of Personal Information
Abacus makes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Access to Personal Information
We make good faith efforts to provide you with access so you can request that we correct the data if it is inaccurate or delete the data if Abacus is not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made to privacy@abacusgroupllc.com.
Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13 we will take steps to delete theinformation as soon as possible.
Third-Party Sites and Services
Abacus websites, products, applications, and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Our products and services may also use or offer products or services from third parties. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We
encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.
International Users
Information you provide may be transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this Privacy Policy. Abacus abides by the “safe harbor� framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information collected by organizations in the European Economic Area and Switzerland. Learn
more about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program.
Our Companywide Commitment to Your Privacy
To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to Abacus employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company.
Privacy Questions
If you have questions or concerns about Abacus’s Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact us at privacy@abacusgroupllc.com. Abacus may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.
Abacus Information Technology, LLC (dba The Abacus Group), 150 Post Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94108
Last updated: Feb 01, 2011 |
