RGE, INC. - COMMITMENT TO
YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by RGE, Inc., an Indiana based
corporation. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us. At RGE, we want to make your experience online
satisfying and safe without concern of your confidential, corporate,
or personal information being released to unauthorized parties.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we
feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and
conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This
privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we
use it.
INFORMATION RGE, Inc. GATHERS AND TRACKS
RGE, Inc. gathers two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our
electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or
forums, to email a friend, purchase products, and from participation in polls and
surveys:
Information RGE gathers through aggregated tracking information
derived mainly by tallying page views and browser header information throughout our sites. This
information allows us to better tailor our content customers' needs
and to help us better understand the demographics of our audience.
Because RGE derives its revenue primarily through sales of our
software, analyzing such information is critical to the enhancement
and future of RGE, Inc. and the ipSentry product line . Under no
circumstances does RGE, Inc. willfully divulge any information about an
individual user to a third party.
RGE, Inc. Gathers User Information In The
Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
Message Board - ipSentry Forums
Users of the site's Forums must register separately for these
services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register to visit the site. During
registration, the user is required to supply a username, password,
and email address for validation and verification. User's may
at their option subscribe to various forums, topics and threads
in order to receive notification of new entries in the forums.
Polls and Surveys
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share
their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks
about important issues, upcoming options, enhancements, et al.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
publicly identifiable to any particular user. RGE, Inc. may use a
system to "tag" users after they have voted to help ensure the
validity of the polling mechanism and discard duplicates and analyze
the results against other data held by RGE, Inc.
Purchasing
RGE, Inc. is required by law to maintain complete records on all
financial transactions.
Usage tracking
RGE, Inc. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. RGE, Inc. does break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, MIME type, and
other browser transmitted information by reading this information
from the browser header (information contained in every user's
browser).
RGE, Inc. sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users
enter in our Search functions in order to identify usage patterns
and provide information most requested by our users. We use tracking
information to determine which areas of our sites users like and
don't like based on traffic to those areas. This helps us continue
to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of
your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal
Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this
site to information that you have specifically and knowingly
provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your
hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. RGE, Inc.
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above),
maintain session state, and ensure security credentials.
RGE, Inc. may on occasion make use of third party advertising
outlets (such as Google) which may place and read their own cookies
in accordance with their advertising policies in order to provide
with accurate information regarding RGE's advertising efforts,
affiliate response, and other performance measurements.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If
you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you
will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need
to have cookies turned on to use this site in general. However, you
do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums,
polling, surveys, and ordering process for session security
validation.
USE OF INFORMATION
RGE, Inc. uses any information voluntarily given by our users to
enhance their experience in our sites, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better
prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide
in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to
participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send
out newsletters to subscribers only (depending on the newsletter),
and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers
might be particularly interested in something we are doing. RGE,
Inc. never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties,
including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track
search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of
what interests our users.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
RGE, Inc. uses the above-described information to tailor our content
to suit your needs and help us to better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service and software
up-to date and current. We will not share information about
individual users with any third party, except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process.
SECURITY
RGE, Inc. operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and
privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary
and only authorized individuals have access to the information
provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which
completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable
information from our users
Opting in and out of subscriptions to forum content or store content
and announcements.
ANTI-SPAM POLICY
RGE, Inc. maintains a strict Opt-In policy regarding the receipt of
email from RGE. The email addresses that we have on file will
not be sent email messages unless the user has specifically
requested to receive information being transmitted or the email
being sent is crucial to providing the product, support, or service,
via email within the context of that transmission. For
example, when purchasing, you may receive multiple messages
containing the current status of your order, license codes,
corrections, et al.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by RGE, Inc.. If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances we disclose it.