Privacy Policy

Overview
Abaca Technology Corporation (“Abaca”) respects your concerns about privacy safeguards. This privacy policy discloses how we gather, use, share and protect information collected about visitors to the Abaca Web site.

What Information Does Abaca Gather?
Abaca collects the following types of information: (1) email or other contact information when contacting us; and (2) non-personally identifiable information collected as you visit and browse the Abaca Web site. By visiting the Abaca Web site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Abaca encourages you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Visitor Information
The Abaca Web site server automatically records visitor information based on your activity on the Abaca Web site and your activity on the Service, such as visitor IP addresses and/or domain names. This enables us to send information you are requesting. An IP address is often associated with the place from which you enter the Internet such as your Internet service provider. This information is associated with you as an individual.

Subscriber Information for Voluntary Subscriber Online Surveys, Usability Studies, Contests, and Other Voluntary Programs.
Abaca may periodically conduct surveys, usability studies, contests, sweepstakes and other programs that help Abaca improve and promote its products and services. You may voluntarily participate in these programs and as a condition of such participation, you may be asked to provide additional demographic information. Abaca may collect such additional information that you voluntarily provide, including, without limitation, gender, age, income level, modem speed, or type of operating system used.

Communication Information
If you communicate directly with Abaca by email or letter, Abaca may collect and store a record of your communication. Abaca may use your communication information to respond to your issues and inquiries. Such communication information may be used to distribute information back to you about Abaca, the Service or other promotional or information communications from Abaca.

How Does Abaca Use the Information and With Whom Do We Share the Information?
Abaca does not share, rent, lease or sell personally identifiable information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Abaca Parent, Agents
Abaca may share your information with its parent company, Propel Software Corporation, which, with respect to such information, shall be subject to the same provisions of this Privacy Policy as apply to Abaca. Abaca may utilize third party companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including, without limitation, companies with whom we may have administrative relationships, such as customer support services. Such third parties may have access to information needed to perform their functions that are specifically related to Abaca's permitted uses, but may not use it for other purposes unless specifically stated otherwise.

Personally Identifiable Information
We do not share your personally identifiable information with third parties, unless you have granted us permission to do so. If you have provided personally identifiable information to Abaca, we will provide you with an opportunity to limit promotional email communications from Abaca or authorized partners of Abaca by "opting-out" or contacting Abaca as specified below.

Business Transfers
Because online business is a rapidly evolving business, and Abaca continues to develop and enhance its business, it may become subject to a corporate merger, corporate acquisition, or similar transaction involving the sale or combination of substantially all of its email protection-related assets. In such circumstance, Abaca reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information to the merged or resultant business entity.

Protection of Abaca and Others; Compliance with the Law
Abaca reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in good-faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with legal process, applicable law, regulation or governmental request, (b) respond to any claims against it, or (c) protect the rights, property or personal safety of Abaca, its employees, its customers or the public. This includes, without limitation, exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.

Visitor Information
Abaca uses information about user behavior, user experience, user equipment, computing and Internet environment to improve the performance of the Abaca Web site and Abaca products and services.

Voluntary Subscriber Surveys, Usability Studies, Contests, and Other Voluntary Programs
Personally identifiable information collected by Abaca in conjunction with voluntary surveys, usability studies, contests, sweepstakes and other voluntary programs will not be shared with any third party without your consent.

Communication Information
Abaca may use your communication information to respond to your issues and inquiries. Your communication information you provide to Abaca's third party partners will also enable such partners to let us know that you have contacted them. Such communication information may be used to distribute information back to you about Abaca, Abaca products and services or other promotional or information communications from Abaca.

Cookies
Cookies are data that a Web site transmits to your computer's hard drive through your browser to enable the Web site to recognize your browser, record and store your information and occasionally track your viewing habits for statistical purposes. The Abaca Web site uses cookies to collect this type of information to deliver targeted content to you, and potentially tailor and enhance your experience on the Abaca Web site.

Children
Abaca does not intend to collect information from individuals who identify themselves as under thirteen (13) years of age. If you are under thirteen, you should not provide any personal information on the Abaca Web site. Abaca will not knowingly disclose personally identifiable information of children under thirteen to any third party.

How Does Abaca Protect My Information?
Abaca takes technical, contractual, administrative and physical security steps to protect information from unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and enable the correct use of information. Abaca utilizes security systems to protect such information. It is important for you to help protect the security of your information as well.

Linked Webs
The Abaca Web site may contain links to other sites. Abaca is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. Abaca encourages you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites.

Accessing and Updating Information
Please notify us of changes to any of your personally identifiable information that you have previously provided to us, including name, address, title, phone number or email address by sending an email to support@abaca.com.

To remove your name from our database or to interrupt e-mail notifications, please send an e-mail to support@abaca.com.

Conditions of Use; Contacting Us
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and use of information that Abaca gathers is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use. If Abaca decides to use personally identifiable information in a manner that is materially different from what is stated at the time such information was collected from you, such changes will be posted in this document or elsewhere on our Web site and we may inform you of our updated Privacy Policy by email and provide you with an opportunity to decline such use of your information. Please check this Web site frequently to see recent changes, additions and deletions to this Privacy Policy. You continued use of the Materials and/or access to the Abaca Web site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates thereto.

If you prefer not to receive promotional or other informational communications from Abaca, or if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or comments or suggestions about the Abaca Web site, please send an email to support@abaca.com or by mail to Abaca Technology Corporation, 1010 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131-1325 USA, Attention: Webmaster.

Abaca Technology Corporation is a subsidiary of Propel Software Corporation

Last updated: 01 May 2006

 
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