PRIVACY POLICY FOR DIGIDESIGN.COM
Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc., ("Digidesign")
has created this privacy policy in order to inform you of Digidesign's
commitment to privacy. The following discloses Digidesign's information
gathering and dissemination practices for Digidesign.com ("Site"
or "Digidesign.com"). Digidesign has other websites that may
contain their own applicable privacy policies. Your visits to those sites
will be governed by the privacy policies, if any, that govern those sites.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY BEFORE USING THIS
SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT USE THE SITE.
BY SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND
BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Your use of this Site and the terms of this Privacy
Policy are also subject to the Terms
of Use. Please review those Terms
of Use for additional detail regarding your use of this Site.
GENERAL INFORMATION
IP Addresses and Cookies
Generally speaking, you may visit the Site while remaining anonymous and
not revealing any personal information.
Digidesign uses your IP address to help diagnose problems
with the Site servers, to administer the Site, to monitor Site usage,
and to gather broad demographic information. Your IP address is used to
help identify you and to aid in your navigation through the Site as determined
by your customization options, if any. Digidesign also may aggregate the
IP address with other information to create anonymous Site statistics.
Digidesign does not, however, use your IP address to collect personal
information about you.
This Site also uses "cookies" to provide customization
options at login, or to keep track of where you are in the Site in order
to provide the correct customization options when you use the Site. Digidesign
also uses cookies to allow you to use features or services that you decide
to select, or to keep track of usage services or links provided on the
Site. Digidesign does not, however, use cookies to collect personally
identifiable information about you.
Submission of Personal
Information
Certain portions of the Site may require that you submit some personal
information, such as your name and email address, before using those portions
of the Site. At minimum, you are typically required to register with the
Site and provide your name or email address before using any of the members
only areas of the Site. For some services, such as accessing any support
or download sections, registering for events, or requesting a demo CD,
you may have to create an account, and submit additional personal information
such as your mailing address. You may also be required to submit information
such as your name and email address before you will be authorized to post
information on the Site.
Use of Personal Information
Digidesign uses the information you submit to the Site to provide the
services and information you select, to better understand its customers,
to provide better products and services, and to assist Digidesign with
the Site administration, such as with troubleshooting any problems, detecting
fraud, resolving disputes, and for any purposes deemed necessary or required
by Digidesign to enforce the Terms
of Use and other terms or conditions applicable to any portion of
the Site.
Digidesign also uses this information to send you information about Digidesign,
its affiliated companies, or other topics Digidesign thinks may be of
interest to you, such as product information or updates. As part of its
business, Digidesign works with its affiliated companies as well as other
authorized partners, such as authorized resellers, to provide you with
the services and information described above. As part of those activities,
Digidesign may share your information with those authorized entities so
that they can directly provide the information or services to you.
Third Parties
Digidesign does not sell to third parties information you have submitted
to this Site that identifies you personally.
On occasion, Digidesign may offer in conjunction with third parties certain
services that may require you (or Digidesign) to share your personal information
with that third party as a condition for providing that service. While
Digidesign will treat any information it receives in accordance with this
Privacy Policy, Digidesign will not be responsible for the information
submitted by you to that third party, and Digidesign reminds you to review
the applicable rules and any third party's applicable privacy policies
separately before participating in such service.
Declining Information
You can always change your mind; see the Accept/Decline
section below. Please note that it may take us a reasonable amount of
time to process your request, but once we do, we will no longer use your
information.
Even if you decline to receive information or cancel any account or profile,
Digidesign reserves the right to use the information you previously provided
to contact you about administrative matters relating to your use of any
portion of the Site, your account, or about any issues relating to the
Terms of Use, this Privacy
Policy, or any other policy then in-effect (for example, the Copyright
Complaint Policy).
Law Enforcement and Posted Information Exceptions
One exception to this Privacy Policy is that Digidesign may provide information
you submit to this Site to law enforcement authorities. As noted in the
Terms of Use Digidesign intends
to cooperate with any order or request from law enforcement officials
or a court of competent jurisdiction for information as to the identity
of individuals submitting or posting information to Digidesign or on this
Site. Such orders or requests supercede the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Another exception applies to any information you decide to post in one
of the Site's public forums. See Public Forums
section below. Finally, notifications of claimed copyright infringement,
counter notifications or other information submitted to and necessary
to process a notification under our Copyright
Complaint Policy are also exempt from this Privacy Policy.
Aggregation and Use of Anonymous Data
Digidesign does aggregate all information provided by you to create anonymous
statistical and demographic data. This anonymous data helps Digidesign
to understand and know its customer base better. That anonymous data may
be provided to third parties but never in such a fashion as to identify
you personally.
Public Forums for Posted Information
Certain portions of the Site are designed to offer you the opportunity
to post information on the Site, including but not limited to information
about yourself ("Posted Information"); see Terms
of Use. For example, you may be permitted to post your resume information
on the Site, or post messages in any chat rooms, message boards, mailing
lists, and/or news groups this Site makes available to its users.
Please remember that any Posted Information becomes public information
and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information. If you decide to post any information, that Posted Information
is exempt from this Privacy Policy.
Please see the Terms of Use,
including but not limited to Section 2: Posted
Information section below, for additional terms applicable to Posted
Information.
Links to Other Sites and Advertising
This Site contains links to other sites not operated by Digidesign. Digidesign
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those web
sites. Please be sure to review the privacy policies of those sites.
This Site may display advertisements and/or links to third parties. These
advertisements or links may contain cookies placed by those third parties.
Digidesign is not responsible for those advertisements, the web sites
to which they are linked, or how any other linked sites may use their
own cookies or information. For example, cookies received with banner
ads may be collected by the company posting the ad on our Site. Again,
please refer to that company's privacy policy for further information.
Surveys and Contests/Sweepstakes
From time to time Digidesign may make online surveys available to users
of the Site. Participation in those surveys is voluntary. Some online
surveys may ask participants for personal information, such as an email
address, in addition to requesting answers to survey questions. Digidesign
may use that personal information to contact the participant if necessary,
or as otherwise described above. Digidesign may make the results of any
survey publicly available, although Digidesign will not attribute any
particular response to you without your permission.
On occasion Digidesign may make available to users of the Site contests,
sweepstakes, or similar events in which they may qualify for participation.
Participation is always voluntary and subject to the applicable rules.
The rules may ask participants to provide personal information as a condition
of participation. Digidesign may also make the winner's names public,
as provided in the applicable rules, or as required by applicable law.
Digidesign may also use that information as described above. In some instances,
the applicable rules may contain additional or different uses for the
information you provide; please be sure to review those rules carefully
before entering.
Digidesign may permit a third party to sponsor a survey, contest, sweepstakes,
or other similar event ("third party event") with Digidesign, such as
through posting it on the Site. Such third party events are governed solely
by any applicable rules, and may require you to provide information to
that third party as a condition for participation. While Digidesign will
treat any information it receives in accordance with this Privacy Policy,
Digidesign is not responsible for the information gathered by that third
party, and Digidesign reminds you to review the rules and privacy policies
separately applicable to those third party events.
Children
No portion of the Site is directed at children (defined as individuals
age 13 and under) nor are children encouraged to use the Site. Digidesign
does not knowingly solicit any personal information about children.
SECURITY
General Issues
Generally speaking, this Site has security measures in place to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Since the Site under general usage does not collect financial information,
Digidesign uses the standard internet connections for those general usage
portions of the Site, without secured sockets.
Specific Services
This Site may provide certain additional, optional services that may use
additional security measures to protect the information, such as financial
information, provided by you to obtain the service. Those additional security
measures may vary, depending upon the particular service offered. You
will be informed of any specific security measures at the time you use
a particular service. Please review that information for further detail.
Site Registration
In some cases, you may be prompted to register with the Site to undertake
a particular Site activity or obtain a particular service. As part of
that registration, you may be asked to choose your own password. Digidesign
reminds you to protect your password, and not provide it to others to
use. Allowing others to access and use your account and password can compromise
the security of your information. Digidesign disclaims any responsibility
or obligation for your decision to provide your password to others.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If and when Digidesign makes changes to this Site, Digidesign may have
to update this Privacy Policy to better reflect those changes. But no
update to this Privacy Policy will, in itself, alter the choice you already
made about how Digidesign can use your personal information. Because changes
to this Site or updates to this Privacy Policy may occur, you should review
this Privacy Policy from time to time. Remember, your decision to continue
using this Site after this Privacy Policy is updated will signify that
you have agreed to any new Privacy Policy terms.
ACCEPT/DECLINE
Typically you accept to receive communications when you submit information
to the Site. If you wish to remove your information from the Site registration
database and no longer receive future communications or use any services,
you may do so through any of the methods described below. Please note
that it may take us a reasonable amount of time to process your request.
- The Profile section of this Site may permit you to
change a previous selection and decline to receive further communications,
or to delete your registration.
- A particular service may have an Administration section
that allows you to change any previous selections for that service.
- You can send an email to webmaster@digidesign.com
for assistance in deleting/changing your prior selections.
CORRECT/UPDATE
This Site gives users the following options for changing and modifying
information previously provided.
- The Profile section of this Site may permit a registered
user to change or modify information previously provided.
- A particular service may have an Administration
section that allows you to change or modify information you previously
provided for that service.
- You can send an email to webmaster@digidesign.com
for assistance in deleting/changing your prior selections.
CONTACTING THE WEB SITE
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you can contact
the Webmaster at the following email:
For DigiProNet related questions, contact: dpnhelp@digidesign.com
For all other questions, contact: webmaster@digidesign.com
NOTICE TO EUROPEAN USERS
Please note that the information you enter on the Site
or otherwise provide to Digidesign or its parent, subsidiaries or divisions,
may be transferred outside of the European Economic Area, for purposes
of processing, by Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc., a company
located in Daly City, California, U.S.A., or its parent, subsidiaries
or divisions, or authorized partners, located worldwide, in order to provide
this Site and its services to you. You are advised that the United States
uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation,
governmental regulation, and self-regulation. You are further advised
that the Council of the European Union has found that this model does
not provide "adequate" privacy protections as contemplated by Article
25 of the European Union's Data Directive. (Directive 95/46/EC, 1995 O.J.
(L 281) 31)
Article 26 of the European Union's Data Directive allows
for transfer of personal data from the European Union to a third country
if the individual has unambiguously given his consent to the transfer
of personal information, regardless of the third country's level of protection.
By agreeing to this Policy, you consent to the transfer
of all such information to the United States and the processing of that
information as described in this Policy.
DISCLAIMERS
Digidesign intends to take reasonable precautions to
abide by this Privacy Policy. Nevertheless, in the event that Digidesign
does not comply with all terms contained in this Privacy Policy, you agree
by using this Site and by submitting information to this Site that your
sole and exclusive remedy against Digidesign will be to have Digidesign
promptly correct the handling of your information in the future to accord
with this Privacy Policy, and to notify anyone to whom Digidesign directly
transferred any information of the correct information or to cease using
such information.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, DIGIDESIGN AND
ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, AND DIVISIONS DISCLAIM ANY OTHER OBLIGATION,
LIABILITY, OR WARRANTY TO YOU FOR ANY OTHER ACTION, INACTION, OMISSION,
OR OTHER ACTIVITY THAT IS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, ITS TERMS, OR ITS DISCLAIMERS
THEN YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS SITE.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL DIGIDESIGN AND ITS PARENT,
SUBSIDIARIES AND DIVISIONS, OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, ECONOMIC OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF USE DAMAGES
OR LOST PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY,
OR THE FAILURE OF DIGIDESIGN AND ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES AND DIVISIONS,
OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS TO ADHERE TO IT, EVEN IF DIGIDESIGN AND
ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES AND DIVISIONS, OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS
HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS
DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL
OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH
STATES/JURISDICTIONS, THE RESPECTIVE LIABILITY OF DIGIDESIGN AND ITS PARENT,
SUBSIDIARIES AND DIVISIONS, OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS SHALL BE LIMITED
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
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