Privacy Statement Information
blindsoftware.com LLC owns and operates the blindsoftware.com website. Because we gather information about the customers of blindsoftware.com, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information.
Information blindsoftware.com gathers and tracks
blindsoftware.com LLC gathers two types of information about users: 1) Data that users provide through optional, voluntary registration on our website, and 2) aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. Such information enables us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and help our advertisers better understand the demographics of our audience. Because our sites derive a portion of their revenue from advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential in order to keep some of our services free to users.
Electronic Newsletters
blindsoftware.com offers a free electronic newsletter to users. blindsoftware.com LLC gathers the e-mail addresses, names and other voluntary information from users who subscribe. Customers may remove themselves from any mailing list by following the instructions contained at the bottom of every newsletter.
Surveys
We occasionally conduct customer surveys to better target our content and product inventory to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our advertisers and partners. We never share any information about specific individuals with any third party, except as noted previously.
Contests and sweepstakes
From time to time, we offer contests and sweepstakes in which we request certain personal information. The full rules and all information about such contests are clearly posted during such events. Information gathered is used only to verify user identity and to contact winners and/or prize recipients, except when specifically noted otherwise. Again, we do not share information about specific individuals with any third party, except as noted previously.
Usage tracking
blindsoftware.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout the site and this information is correlated with data about individual users. Overall usage statistics, according to a user's domain name, browser type and MIME type gotten by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser), are also broken down.
We also track and catalog the search terms that customers enter into our search tools, but this tracking is never associated with individual users.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such including a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. 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.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. However, blindsoftware.com may not work well or optimally with cookies turned off or used selectively.
Use of the information
We use any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience on our website, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.