PRIVACY POLICY as of 3 February 2011

Protecting the privacy and security of visitor’s personal information is very important to us. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do with the personal information we collect both online and offline.  We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide this information to us. Here is how we handle information about your visit and contacts with our website.

What we collect and store automatically: If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit; and

If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website. We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

The collection of the information listed above is standard practice for almost all websites on the Internet.  Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share this information with any outside organizations.

If you send us e-mail or register with us: 

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in e-mail with a comment or question.  You also may be asked to register as a user and be assigned a user name and password in order to access certain areas of our website. The personal information you provide is voluntary. We collect and use only the minimum information necessary to respond to your comment or question.  In most cases, we collect limited information, such as:

• Name
• Username
• Address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Password
• Your question or comment

We use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we forward your e-mail to other Aptima employees who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share this information with any outside organizations.

If you register with us: In order to access certain areas of our website, you may be asked to register as a user and be assigned a user name and password. We use the information you provide to improve our service to you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share the contact information you provide with any other outside organizations.

Links to other sites: Our website has many links to our customers, partners, and other websites. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the Privacy Policy of the new site.

Notification of Changes to this Policy: Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted to this web site and will become effective when posted.

Questions or Complaints about this Policy: Contact aptima_info@aptima.com, ATTN: Director of Corporate Communications.  For other questions or comments, please visit our Contact page to find email, telephone, and mail contact information.