MacVide Privacy Policy

MacVide respects and wishes to protect your privacy. This MacVide data protection guarantee applies to the MacVide websites and governs the compilation and use of data from all MacVide websites worldwide. By using the MacVide websites, you agree to the data practices described in this document.

This data protection guarantee consists of a general part which applies to all MacVide websites and services, followed by site-specific passages which provide you with further information about the various MacVide sites. Please read the complete MacVide data protection guarantee below as well as further details about the protection of your personal data by MacVide sites and services.

MacVide respects your individual privacy, and is committed to protecting your personal information. Generally, you are not required to provide any personal information for browsing MacVide's website. For specific purposes, in case you provide your name, gender, national, date of birth, country, E-mail, phone number, address and other similar personal information that are required for registration or reading E-information by voluntarily filling in forms, you will be deemed to have understood and accepted the use of your personal information and agreed that MacVide uses your personal information for the specific purposes.

MacVide is committed to protecting your privacy. We will only collect your personal information for defined purposes. We do not distribute or share your personal information beyond what is strictly necessary to fulfill our obligations to you. We may share your information only with partners who adhere to MacVide's commitment to protecting your privacy. MacVide will not sell your personal information in any manner whatsoever. You shall have foreseen and agreed to the occurrence of events when you provide your personal information. Undoubtedly, your privacy is a priority at MacVide, and we go to great lengths to protect it.

Collection of your personal data

On some sites, MacVide collects personal identifying information such as your email address, name, private and business addresses and telephone numbers. Data collected on MacVide websites will be passed on within MacVide, its subsidiaries and subcompanies. Personal and demographic data may be saved and processed outside your home country. By using the MacVide websites, you agree to all such transfers outside your home country.

Data concerning your computer hardware and software will be automatically collected by MacVide and might be passed on to other websites within the MacVide website group. This data can include the following: your IP address, browser type, domain name, access type and relevant web addresses. This data will be used by MacVide for maintenance purposes, to guarantee quality and to produce general statistics about the use of its websites.

MacVide recommends that you read the data protection guarantees of websites reachable by links from MacVide in order that you understand how these websites collect, use and distribute data. MacVide is not responsible for the content and data protection guarantees of websites outside the MacVide websites.

Use of your personal data

MacVide websites and service partners collect your personal data and use the information for the maintenance of the MacVide websites and also to carry out the services you ask for. MacVide websites also use your identifying data to let you know about products and services which are available from MacVide. MacVide might also ask for your opinion on current product and services and potential new products and services.

MacVide does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. MacVide may contact you from to time to time on behalf of external business partners in order to draw your attention to special offers that might interest you. In such cases, your personal identifying data (email address, name, postal address, telephone number) will not be passed on to third parties. Additionally, MacVide might pass on data to trusted partners who help us carry out statistical analysis, send you an email or message by post, offer customer support, or arrange a delivery. These third parties are forbidden from using your personal information for any other purpose apart from these services from MacVide, and they must also treat your data confidentially. MacVide does not use any sensitive personal data such as religion, ethnic origin or political affiliation, and does not pass on this information without your express permission.
MacVide observes websites and pages within MacVide that are visited by our customers in order to determine the most popular parts of our websites. This data is used in order to adapt web content for customers whose behavior suggests that they are interested in a particular area.
MacVide will only pass on personal data without notice when this is necessary for legal reasons or that it is reasonable to assume that such steps are necessary. The following are conditions for this: (a) when it is necessary for conformity to legal restrictions on MacVide or the website; (b) for the protection and defense of the rights or property of MacVide; (c) for the protection of the personal security of the users of MacVide, MacVide websites or of the public.

Information Collected During Purchase

When you place an order online with us, we use a third-party e-commerce service provided by Plimus, Avangate. You can access their privacy policies at Plimus privacy statement and Avangate privacity statement. We do not keep credit card information as part of your product registration. Encryption works to prevent any malicious use of your personal information. Your credit card information is only used for online transition. We keep information about purchasers in our database (name, email address, mailing address, phone...) to fulfill purchaser request only (lost program, keys...). MacVide may use purchaser information to send free upgrades, information about license or special rebates. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to third parties.

Information Collected During Registration

During registration of products online, users specify limited information about them. MacVide may use this information to provide with notices of new information that may be of use or interest to users. This may include newsletters, tutorials, website update notices, or notification on the availability of new products, and product updates. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others. Occasionally a user may be asked to provide a statement, provide a reference, authorize a quote or testimonial, or participate in a press release or case study. No user is obligated to provide any details about the product or it's use. No statements will be taken or used without prior written consent.

Use of Cookies

MacVide websites use "cookies" to help you personalize the website. A cookie is a text file which is copied from a web server onto your hard disk. Cookies are expressedly given to you and can be read only by a web server in the same domain as the one that gave you the cookie.
The primary function of cookies is as a time-saving feature. The function of a cookie is to let the web server know that you are returning to the site; for example, if you personalize an MacVide website or register yourself for MacVide website or services, a cookie helps MacVide to call up your specific information for later visits. This simplifies the recording of your personal information such as billing address, delivery address, and so on. If you return to the same MacVide website, the previously recorded data can be called up again so you can easily use the MacVide features relevant to yourself.
You can accept or decline cookies. The majority of web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings and decline them. If you decline cookies you may not be able to use all the features of MacVide services or the websites you visit.

Log Files

We use IP addresses and domain names to analyze trends and administer the site. IP addresses and domain names are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that MacVide is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by MacVide website.

Email

Visitors are able to e-mail messages to MacVide that will contain the user's name and e-mail address, as well as any additional information the user may wish to include in the message. MacVide uses the information visitors provide about themselves to fulfill those visitors' requests. E-mail addresses are used to answer messages received only.

Security of your personal data

Given the nature of the Internet and the fact that no security system is perfect, MacVide cannot promise that the information you provide will never be obtained by unauthorized persons. MacVide does, however, utilize industry-standard practices to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration and destruction. Such measures include using firewalls and security layers to protect certain sensitive transmissions of information. In some areas of our website, we require a user ID and password for you to access certain information. MacVide will not disclose such passwords to third parties; however, you are responsible for maintaining the privacy and security of your password.

Notification of Changes

MacVide reserves the right to change our privacy policy from time to time. If MacVide decides to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect from them, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose this information to third parties. If at any point MacVide decides that we wish to use personally identifiable information collected from our users in a manner that differs from that stated at the time this information was collected, we will notify users. Users will have a choice whether or not to consent to our using their personal information in accordance with our updated privacy policy. MacVide will occasionally update this data protection guarantee in order to take account of feedback from firms and customers. MacVide recommends that you regularly check this document so that you are kept informed of MacVide's data protection.

Contact information

Your comments on the data protection guarantee are welcomed by MacVide. If you consider that MacVide have not kept to the terms of this document, please send an email to MacVide. We will, as far as is commercially feasible, attempt to pass on and solve any problems.