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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information, shared on www.scarm.info is being used online. "Personal information", is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personal information in accordance with our website, products and services.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?

When registering, ordering or leaving a comment on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address or other details to help you with your experience using our website, products and services.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, enter information on our site or when some pages, products and services are used.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features, products and services in the following ways:
• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To allow us to better serve you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other website's product or service feature.
• To send periodic emails regarding your orders or other products and services.
• To properly identify you and/or your device(s) when using licensed and/or paid products and/or services.

How do we protect your information?

We only provide content (articles and information), software products and related services on our website.
We use regular malware scanning and strong encryption for most stored data on our server.
We use SSL certificate to protect the communication between your browser and our server.
We do not directly process payments and payment transactions. Instead, we use well-known payment gateways, like PayPal and Paddle.
We do not collect, store or process credit card numbers, social security numbers or other sensitive financial or personal data.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. We use cookies to optimize user's experience and to save user's preferences for future visits on our website. You may set your browser to warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You can do this through your browser settings. Look in your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify how your browser process and stores the cookies. More about the cookies usage and processing can be seen in our Terms of Use.

E-mail communication and anti-phishing precautions

When we are contacting you by e-mail, the message will always contain your name that you entered for your account in our Registered Users Area. Spoof or "phishing" e-mails tend to have generic greetings such as "Dear user" or similar. We will never ask you to send back details such as username, password, credit card number or other sensitive data in a return e-mail nor to enter/confirm such details again. Always verify the sender's e-mail address and domain or the current web browser's address and domain in the address bar for the string scarm.info.

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it's release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.