Smartware, LLC, producer of Clip-It!, and its affiliates are committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when using Clip-It!  This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you register to use Clip-It!

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT. Smartware collects information about our subscribers' use of the Service in order to provide a secure and personalized experience.  We collect the following information:

• Contact Information
  During registration you provide us with a limited amount of "Contact Information."   This includes information that would allow someone to identify or contact You, including, for example, Your e-mail address.
• Personal Non-contact Information
  By registering for and using Clip-It! you also provide "Personal Non-contact Information."  This is anonymous information about You that does not include Your name or contact information. For instance, the articles You save and share via the Service is Personal Non-contact Information. We use this information to customize the Service for You and will not include or refer to Contact Information, when using this type of data. For example, A user might indicate in the registration survey that she is female.  Based on this information, we may deliver advertisements targeting females.

Surveys: We may conduct occasional online surveys. For example, when you're within our Web site, you may see a pop-up window offering you the optional opportunity of participating in a survey. These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.

• Aggregated Information
  "Aggregated Information" refers to information we gather by aggregating Personal Non-contact Information to provide a summary of our subscribers. We use Aggregated Information for example to show usage patterns to Clip-It! partners or potential partners.  Examples of such aggregated data would be demographic information such as age, gender, or zip code.  Such Information is not linked to Your Contact Information.

• Web Site Usage Information: We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit our Web site. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our Web sites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each Web page, and the length of their visits.

2. CONTACT INFORMATION WE COLLECT. We may collect Contact Information when You: (a) sign up as a subscriber; (b) make changes to Your subscriber profile information; and (c) send e-mail messages, forms, or other information to us or via the Service. When You sign up as a subscriber, we ask for Contact Information, such as an e-mail address, to allow us to create an account for You, respond to Your questions or contact You regarding Your account. We use the e-mail address You provide on the registration form as a primary user identifier.

Like many other Web sites, Smartware uses a standard technology called "cookies". Cookies are small pieces of information stored on Your hard drive and not on our site. When you sign on to our Web site or take advantage of several key features, we may pass cookies to your computer. Cookies allow You to login without entering Your login information each time You use the Service. Cookies help us understand how subscribers use the Service, which allows us to improve and tailor the Service. You will not be able to use the Service if You disable cookies.

3. OUR USE OF CONTACT INFORMATION. Smartware uses Your Contact Information to create a secure and personalized service for You. We also use Your Contact Information to contact You, if You expressly consent, regarding updates about the Service, Smartware or customer Web sites. You may opt-out of receiving mailings from us at any time.

4. DISCLOSURE OF CONTACT INFORMATION. We do not sell, rent, or loan Your Contact Information to third parties, like mass marketers, for example, without Your permission.  However, if You registered through a partner Web site, we share with the partner Web site Your registration information and content You collected from the customer Web site only. We do not share Your registration information with any other Web site besides the customer Web site through which You registered. We may disclose Personal Non-contact Information and Aggregated Information about our subscribers, but that information does not contain Contact Information.

If law enforcement or judicial authorities require Smartware to provide Contact Information on a subscriber, we must cooperate with the authorities provided they support their requirement with the necessary legal documentation.

5. THIRD PARTY VENDORS. Smartware works with a third party that serves ads to this site. We do not disclose Contact Information to third party vendors.

6. PRIVACY PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly provide our Service to persons under the age of thirteen (13). If Smartware later learns that any subscriber is under the age of thirteen (13), we will take appropriate steps to remove the subscriber's information from the database and will restrict access to the Service.

7. ACCESSING YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION. You can access and update Your registration information by logging onto the Service and selecting the Admin button. The Admin page allows You to update Your registration information. You may choose to have Your Contact Information deleted by contacting help@clipit.net.

We provide You with the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us or any of our customer Web sites when You register for our Service. Once You opt-in, You can discontinue receiving updates about Smartware or our customer Web sites by sending a message to help@clipit.net.

8. CONSENT. This Privacy Policy is a part of the Terms of Use page. When You use the Service, including services available at the Smartware.com domain, You are using a service provided by Smartware and You agree to be bound by the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. Some terms may be defined in the Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy only addresses activities from our servers. Other sites (including those that we link to and third party sites or services which we co-brand) may have their own policies, which we do not control, and thus are not addressed or controlled by this policy.

9. NOTIFICATION. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this manner. 

 We at Smartware believe strongly in respecting the privacy of all our users. We will update and amend this statement if and when it is necessary. Please check back often to review the most up-to-date statement. Upon posting the amended version, Smartware will take reasonable measures, to alert you to changes that have been made. If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at help@clipit.net.

This policy was last updated on 5/14/2003.