At SOCRATES, INC. ("SOCRATES"), your privacy is important to us. SOCRATES wants you to feel confident visiting our Web site, socratesweb.com and/or SOCRATES ® -WEB Viewer, socratesweb.com (hereinafter individually and/or collectively referred to as the "Web Site" and/or the "Web-Viewer"). By using this Web Site and/or Web Viewer, you signify your acceptance of the terms of SOCRATES Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Web Site and/or the Web Viewer and exit the Web Site and/or Web Viewer immediately. Your continued use of the SOCRATES Web Site and/or the SOCRATES Web Viewer following the posting of any changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.
Use of Information Submitted or Collected
During your use of the Web Site and/or the Web Viewer, we will collect certain information from you. Each visitor to the Web Site and/or the Web Viewer, SOCRATES will automatically collect information about you from the pages you visit and your IP address or domain name, browser, connection speed, referring URL and other environment information. We will use your environment information to diagnose problems with your server, to administer our Web Site and/or Web Viewer more efficiently and to gather broad demographic information.
In consideration of the use of the Web Site and/or Web Viewer you agree that the information you provide will be true, accurate, current and complete and that you will maintain and update your information. Failure to do so will give SOCRATES the right to suspend or terminate your use of the Web Site and/or Web Viewer. SOCRATES will not sell your personally identifiable information (your e-mail address and any contact information that you provide) but reserves the right to share certain demographic and profile data with our vendors, suppliers, consultants and other business partners on an aggregated basis.
SOCRATES will disclose your personally-identifying information only in special case, such as (i) to comply with valid legal requirements, such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order or (ii) when SOCRATES has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring a legal action against someone who, intentionally or unintentionally, may be causing injury or harm to socratesinc.com and/or socratesweb.com users or other persons or violating the Terms and Conditions of Use of this Web Site and/or the Web Viewer.
It is advised that you also read our Terms and Conditions of Use Policy at www.socratesinc.com or www.socratesweb.com.
Business Transfers
In the event that all or portion of SOCRATES, INC. or any subsidiary or affiliate (or the assets of one of those entities) is bought or sold, Business Information will likely be included among the transferred business assets, but such information remains subject to this Privacy Policy unless you consent to otherwise.
Cookies
SOCRATES may place a "cookie" on the browser of your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common in the Internet industry and many major web sites use them to provide useful features to their computers. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, but may be used to tell when your computer has contacted socratesinc.com and/or socratesweb.com. SOCRATES uses the information for editorial purposes and to customize delivery of information specific to your interests.
Links
This Web Site contains hyperlinks to other sites. SOCRATES is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites, including any sites that may indicate a special relationship or partnership with SOCRATES. The linked sites may collect personal information from you when you link to their site. This collection of information is not subject to SOCRATES's control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the sites you visit by linking from our Web Site and/or the Web Viewer.
Security
The Web Site and/or the Web Viewer have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alternation of the information under our control.
Notification of Changes
This Privacy Policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the Web Site and/or the Web Viewer or as Internet security and privacy standards evolve. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We do, however, recommend that you read this Privacy Policy every time you use socratesinc.com and/or socrateseweb.com, in case you missed our notice of changes to the Privacy Policy.
Contacting Us
If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact SOCRATES at:
SOCRATES, INC.
A SCIOinspire Company
1201 Broughton Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
Attention: Legal Notices
It is recommended that you also read our Privacy, Terms and Conditions of Use policies and Legal statement at www.socratesinc.com or www.socratesweb.com.
Last Updated: March 17, 2009