SoftwareReviews.com Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy of SoftwareReviews.com Inc. (“SoftwareReviews.com” or “us” or “our”). This document explains our policies for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information.

The information we collect

SoftwareReviews.com collects information by various methods, including information actively provided by its lead providers, its customers, and information arising from customer surveys, User Submissions as defined in the Terms of Use of the SoftwareReviews.com website (“Terms of Use”), and general feedback.

The types of personal information we collect include name, title, organization, contact information, identification information, and credit information. Credit card information is used for billing purposes only. We may record calls to or from our customer service representatives for purposes of accuracy, performance reviews, training, and general quality assurance. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors or those with other legal incapacities on our website or otherwise.

How we use this information

This information is used to deliver our various products, including customer service, accounting, billing, and collections, and in the marketing of other SoftwareReviews.com products.

By providing a software review or answers to a survey through email, on our site, or otherwise, you agree to share your name, title, role, and organization with other members of SoftwareReviews.com, other SoftwareReviews.com customers, and potentially the public. We will publish your name, title, role, and organization in connection with the software review or survey results on our website and in reports for our members. We collect this information in connection with software reviews and surveys in order to promote data integrity and to dissuade false or fake reviews. If you agree to be available for a recommendation, your email address may be shared with third parties for the sake of providing that recommendation.

SoftwareReviews.com may use aggregate or anonymous information, which will not be linked to identified individuals, for various other uses for itself and third parties. The identity of our corporate clients is not considered personal or confidential information, and we may disclose that information for promotion and marketing purposes.

SoftwareReviews.com users may have the option to participate in online discussion communities. Such communities are exclusive communities for certain SoftwareReviews.com subscribers and are accessible only by subscribers through their SoftwareReviews.com login name and password. Participation in the community is completely voluntary. By opting into the community, subscribers agree to share basic contact information (Name, Company, Address) with their peers in the community. You should not disclose anything in an online discussion community that you would not want to become public.

Who we share this information with

SoftwareReviews.com does not share personal information with any third parties except as disclosed in this policy. SoftwareReviews.com may provide personal information to SoftwareReviews.com’s consultants, subcontractors, and professional advisers (which shall be bound by privacy obligations) to assist SoftwareReviews.com’s uses disclosed herein. If you choose to see other User Submissions and reviews, your contact information and profile information submitted in connection with your account for this site will be visible to and possibly shared with other users and the public. If you fill out a survey via email or on our website or otherwise submit a User Submission as defined in the Terms of Use, your name, title, organization, and role in connection with the software review or survey results may be shared with other members on the site, in our published reports, and potentially with the public. This information is shared to ensure the integrity of our software reviews and survey data and to dissuade persons or organizations from posting false or fake reviews or contributing fake survey data.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California, the California Consumer Privacy Act or “CCPA” provides you with the following rights:

• The right to request the specific pieces of personal information we collect;
• The right to request that we delete your personal information;
• The right to opt out of the sale of personal information;

If you are a California resident and wish to exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal information you may do at the following link: SoftwareReviews Right to Opt-Out Form. If you are a California resident and wish to exercise any of your other rights under the CCPA, you may do so by emailing privacy@infotech.com. (please include the particulars of your request and any other relevant information).

If you indicate interest in a particular software product, we may provide certain personal information to the relevant software vendor. The software vendor may contact you regarding the product. As the software vendor may pay SoftwareReviews.com a fee, the disclosure is a sale within the meaning of the CCPA. SoftwareReviews.com may provide your name, email, company name and job title to the software vendor (“identifiers” and “employment-related information”, within the meaning of the CCPA disclosure requirements).

Nevada Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, Nevada law (SB 220) provides you the right to opt out of the sale of certain personal information, where sale is defined as a transfer of personal information to a third party for monetary consideration, for the purpose of the third party then licensing or selling the information to additional third parties. We do not sell your personal information within the meaning of Nevada law.

European Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, applicable privacy law provides you with certain rights:

• The right to access copies of your personal information
• The right to correction of your personal information
• The right to deletion of your personal information, in certain circumstances
• The right to restrict our use of your personal information, in certain circumstances
• The right to object to our use of your personal information, in certain circumstances
• The right to request that we transfer your personal information, in certain circumstances

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom and wish to exercise any of your privacy rights, please notify us at privacy@infotech.com..

Security

Personal information is stored in a combination of paper and electronic files. They are protected by security measures appropriate to the nature of the information.

Accessing information

Individuals may review their personal information contained in SoftwareReviews.com files by contacting the SoftwareReviews.com Privacy Officer. If an individual believes that any of their personal information is inaccurate, we will make appropriate corrections.

Cookies

Cookies are used by SoftwareReviews.com for the convenience of our users. They are used to streamline access to the online subscriber service. Cookies automatically authenticate the user. A user can access SoftwareReviews.com products with the cookie feature turned off; however, they may need to provide their username and password information on multiple occasions. SoftwareReviews.com also uses cookies to track users’ visits and uses that information to improve user experience and track use of our products.

Links

SoftwareReviews.com seeks out the best web sources and resources for our advisory services. Many of our pages contain links to information at other websites. When you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.

General

SoftwareReviews.com may amend this policy from time to time. If such amendments affect how SoftwareReviews.com uses or discloses personal information already held by SoftwareReviews.com in a material way, SoftwareReviews.com will obtain consent from the user for such use.

Notwithstanding the general terms of this policy, the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information may be made outside of the terms herein to the extent provided for in any applicable privacy or other legislation in effect from time to time.

SoftwareReviews.com may disclose personal information to another entity purchasing (including for diligence purposes prior to purchase) the assets of SoftwareReviews.com, provided that entity abides by this or a similar privacy policy.

Opt-out

If at any time you would like to discontinue email communication from SoftwareReviews.com Inc. feel free to opt out by clicking: Opt out of receiving emails from SoftwareReviews.com.

Contact us

For more information on SoftwareReviews.com Inc. and privacy please contact our Privacy Officer at: legal@softwarereviews.com.