WorldWidePC and your privacy At WorldWidePC we respect your right to privacy and we understand that, as a visitor to WorldWidePC.com, you prefer to control your own personal information and preferences. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information and preferences when you visit certain areas of WorldWidePC.com, download free software, request information, or subscribe to WorldWidePC Edge newsletter. We will guard the personal information you share with us to ensure the content, services, and advertising that we provide on WorldWidePC.com are always tailored to your current, designated preferences. When you provide WorldWidePC with your name (or alias), e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number, and you "opt in," WorldWidePC and WorldWidePC representatives may use the provided information to alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information, classes, new services, and other WorldWidePC information. ("Representatives" include value-added resellers and authorized training partners.) WorldWidePC does not offer, or allow the selling of, any user-provided information to third parties. WorldWidePC respects the rights users give us when opting to receive e-mail communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to retain the long-term ability to continue to communicate with our users. If you do not want WorldWidePC or WorldWidePC representatives to contact you, you may "opt out" of this preference at any time, whether you're online or contacting WorldWidePC directly. As part of your preference flexibility, you'll always have the option to opt back in and have WorldWidePC contact you based on your previous or new preferences. For instructions, please see the section "Contact Us," below. If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still visit most WorldWidePC websites; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification. WorldWidePC membership and the use of log files (cookies) WorldWidePC offers free membership to all WorldWidePC.com visitors. In order to establish membership, visitors are requested to provide both personal information and preferences. This information is stored and protected by your user-established Member ID and Password. There is an additional "Remember me" option. By selecting it, you allow WorldWidePC to save your Member ID so you don't have to re-enter it each time you return to any WorldWidePC website. WorldWidePC remembers you by placing a log file (cookie) that contains only enough information to identify you upon return visits. A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with your web browser for record-keeping purposes and helps WorldWidePC provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent. No information, other than that found in the Membership cookie, will be accessed by any WorldWidePC system. Access to your membership information always requires both your Member ID and Password. WorldWidePC also utilizes visitor log files (cookies) with our website. Once a user enters our site, a cookie follows them through their click stream path. Examples of information being collected by these cookies include the number of times a user came to our site(s), and the paths they took to get there. WorldWidePC uses the data collected from website visitor cookies in aggregate form only and does not collect any personally identifiable information. Use of this information helps us better understand what users are seeking and learning at our website(s) and helps us identify potential navigation issues. How WorldWidePC will protect your personal information WorldWidePC will always protect the personal information that you share with us. WorldWidePC stores information internally in a controlled, secure environment. If, for example, you make a purchase online, we route all transactions through SSL (Secure Socket Layers) and will process your credit card number only to secure your current payment. The SSL transaction does not retain your credit card number subsequent to the transaction at hand and will not use the number for marketing purposes. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. If WorldWidePC requests general demographic information, this information is limited to reporting purposes only; members remain anonymous. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses are never shared for demographic reports with outside entities. WorldWidePC may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s), we will provide an up-front statement to that effect. Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website. Contact us How to update your personal information and preferences You can help WorldWidePC maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your name, address, title, phone number, e-mail address, or your content preferences. If at any time you wish to update your information or preferences, or you prefer to stop receiving communication from WorldWidePC, feel free to contact us at any time. WorldWidePC Privacy contacts include: Email: privacy@worldwidepc.com Postal Mail: 3435 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 655 Los Angeles, California 90010 USA Links WorldWidePC.com may contain links to other sites. WorldWidePC assumes no responsibility for the content or the privacy policies and practices of such websites. WorldWidePC encourages you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites; their privacy practices may differ from ours.