PearlArc Systems takes your privacy very seriously

This website is administered by PearlArc Systems. The primary purpose of pearlarc.com is to be a dynamic resource and business tool for our clients, prospects, analysts, researchers and media. We want you to feel secure when visiting our site and we are committed to maintaining your privacy when doing so.

In general, you can visit PearlArc Systems' website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. There are times, however, when we may need information from you.

PearlArc Systems does not share personal information about you with non-affiliated companies except: (a) to provide products or services you've requested; (b) when we have your permission: or (c) under the following circumstances

• We provide the information to trusted entities who work on behalf of or with PearlArc Systems under strict confidentiality agreements. These entities may use your personal information to help PearlArc Systems communicate with you about offers from PearlArc Systems and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to further share or disseminate this information.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share the information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action against any illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
• We believe it is necessary to share the information in order to protect or enforce PearlArc Systems' rights, usage terms, intellectual or physical property or for safety of PearlArc Systems or associated parties.
• We may share information about you if PearlArc Systems is acquired by or merged with another company.

You may choose to give us personal information such as your name and address or e-mail identification address ('ID') that may be needed, for example, to correspond with you, for you to download our white papers, to provide you with subscription information etc. We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personally identifiable information.

PearlArc Systems will not be liable to any unsolicited information provided by you. You consent to PearlArc Systems using such information as per PearlArc Systems' privacy policy.

We will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests to correct inaccuracies in your personal information. To correct inaccuracies in your personal information, please return the message containing the inaccuracies to the sender.

PearlArc Systems' website are not directed at nor targeted at children. No one who has not reached the age of thirteen may use the website unless supervised by an adult.

Cookies and other technologies

We sometimes collect anonymous information from visits to our sites to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and we also measure visitor activity on PearlArc Systems web sites, but we do so in ways that keep the information of the visitor anonymous. PearlArc Systems or its affiliates or vendors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service. We maintain the highest levels of confidentiality for this information. Our affiliates and vendors follow the same high levels of confidentiality. This anonymous information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level to help us understand trends and patterns. None of this information is reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner, you can either disable your cookies or opt-out at the download or request page. Alternatively, you can set your browser to intimate upon receiving a cookie. You may accordingly decide to opt out.

Mailers

PearlArc Systems may, if you so choose, send direct mailers to you at the address given by you.

Anti-Spam policy

PearlArc Systems recognizes the receipt, transmission or distribution of spam emails (i.e. unsolicited bulk emails) as a major concern and has taken reasonable measures to minimize the transmission and effect of spam emails in our computing environment. All emails received by PearlArc Systems are subject to spam check. Any email identified as spam will be rejected with sufficient information to the sender for taking necessary action. With this measure, along with other technical spam reduction measures, PearlArc Systems hopes to minimize the effect of spam emails. PearlArc Systems reserves the right to reject and/or report any suspicious spam emails, to the authorities concerned, for necessary action.

Online Survey

At times we conduct online surveys to better understand the needs and profiles of our visitors. When we conduct a survey, we will try (but are not obligated) to let you know how we will use the information at the time we collect information from you on the Internet.

The following provides an overview of how we protect your privacy during your visit.

What information do we gather?

Information on pearlarc.com is gathered in two ways: (1) indirectly (for example, through our site's technology); and (2) directly (for example, when you provide information on various pages of pearlarc.com).

One example of information we collect indirectly is through our Internet access logs. When you access pearlarc.com, your Internet address is automatically collected and is placed in our Internet access logs.

We collect information directly from you in a number of ways, some of which we describe in this Privacy Statement. One way is through the use of cookies. Cookies are small files of information which save and retrieve information about your visit to pearlarc.com —for example, how you entered our site, how you navigated through the site, and what information was of interest to you. (If you are uncomfortable regarding the use of cookies, please keep in mind that you can disable cookies on your computer by changing the settings in preferences or the options menu in your browser).

We also collect information when you voluntarily submit it to us. Throughout our site, we provide the opportunity to request for information, submit a query, register for an event or conference, order a white paper, or participate in an online survey. It is completely up to you whether or not you want to provide it.

How do we use this information?

We analyze it to determine what is most effective about our site, to help us identify ways to improve it, and eventually, to determine how we can tailor pearlarc.com to make it more effective. We may also use data for other purposes, which we would describe to you at the point we collect the information.

We also use this information to send out EDMs (Electronic Direct Mails) to announce the launch of our new services, invitations to our events and other informational mails from our senior management. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by choosing the unsubscribe option in the mail.

Will we share this with outside parties?

As a global organization, the data we collect may be transferred internationally throughout PearlArc Systems' worldwide organization. We will not sell any individual's information and will share it only with our employees and trusted partners. This site may contain links to other sites; PearlArc Systems is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Do we give you access to your information?

pYou are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if we do, to have access to that information or if you require it to be corrected in case it is inaccurate, you can do so by sending us an e-mail at admin@pearlarc.com.

What about data security?

We take appropriate steps to maintain the security of all your data on pearlarc.com. You should understand that the open nature of the Internet is such that data may flow over networks without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended. Having said that, this site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and/or alteration of information under our control. The data resides behind a firewall, with access restricted to authorized PearlArc Systems personnel.

Changes to this Policy

Please note that this Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any Policy changes on this page. We will also keep prior versions of this Policy in an archive for your review.

Notification of Changes

We will post a notice for 30 days at the top of this page notifying users when this Privacy Statement is updated or modified in a material way. If we are going to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we can use your personal information in such a way.