General

At Applane, we respect your need for online privacy and protect any information that you may share with us, in an appropriate manner. Our policy with regards to use of your information is as described below in this Privacy Statement. As a condition to use of our services, you consent to the terms of the Applane Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time. In the event of a material change, we shall notify you via email or by means of a prominent notice on the web site. This Privacy Statement applies exclusively to www.applane.com.

Please direct all your inquiries pertaining to this statement or the service to us at support@applane.com or you can reach Applane Customer Support Services by telephone at 1 888 398 1347.

Information Recorded and Use:

Personal Information

During the Registration Process for creating an Applane Account, we request for your name and email address. You will also be asked to choose password, which will be used solely for the purpose of providing access to your Applane Account. Your name and email address will be used to inform you regarding new services, releases, upcoming events and changes in this privacy policy. When you elect to register an account, you also have the option to create an account by using your Gmail login information -third party platforms. In doing so, no personal information within your third party email accounts is transferred to your Applane account without your explicit consent and is provided as a convenience to you.

When users set an Applane Account, we provide them the opportunity across our various service offerings to include third party personal information within their contacts and databases. This information may include third party names, email, phone numbers and physical addresses. This information is used for servicing user requirements as expressed by users to Applane and solely as part and parcel of the service. We do not share this third party personal information with anyone for promotional purposes nor does Applane utilize it for any purposes not expressly consented to by the user.

We post user testimonials on the Site. These testimonials may include names and we acquire permission from our users prior to posting these on the Site. Applane is not responsible for the personal information users elect to post within their testimonials.

Account Usage Details

Your Account Usage Details such as time, frequency, duration and pattern of use, features used and the amount of storage used will be recorded by us in order to enhance your experience of the services and to help us improve our services.

Contents of your Account

We store and maintain files, documents, to-do lists, emails and other data stored in your Account at our facilities in the United States or any other country. Use of Applane Services signifies your consent to such transfer of your data outside of your country. In order to prevent loss of data due to errors or system failures, we also keep backup copies of data including the contents of your Account. Hence your files and data may remain on our servers even after deletion or termination of your Account. We assure you that the contents of your Account will not be disclosed to anyone and will not be accessible to employees of Applane in this capacity. We also do not process the contents of your Account for serving targeted advertisements.

Financial Information

In case of services requiring payment, we request credit card or other payment Account information, which will be used solely for processing payments. Your Financial Information will not be stored by us except for the name and address of the card holder and the last four digits of the Credit Card number. Subject to your prior consent and where necessary for processing future payments, your Financial Information will be stored in SSL(secure socket layer) encrypted form on secure servers of our reputed Payment Gateway Service Provider who is beholden to treating your sensitive information in accordance with this privacy statement.

Visitor Details

We use the IP address, browser type, browser language, referring URL, files accessed, errors generated, time zone, operating system and other visitor details collected in our log files to analyze the trends, administer the website, track visitor's movements and to improve our website.

Cookies

A cookie is a text-only string of information that is stored by your browser when you navigate around a website. Cookies are required to use our services and are used in the following ways:

• To keep a session open after a user logs in. This cookie will automatically expire after 30 minutes of inactivity or when the user explicitly logs out.
• To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
• When a user has enabled 'Remember Me on This Computer' a cookie allows the user to access their account without logging in each time. This cookie is removed when the user explicitly logs out.

These cookies contain no personal information, but clearly users shouldn't enable 'Remember Me' when using a publicly-accessible computing device or terminal.

Third-party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We take no responsibility for the privacy practices or content of these websites. You are responsible for checking the privacy policy of any third-party websites we link to.

With whom we share Information

We will obtain your prior specific consent before we share or disclose your personal information to any person outside Applane. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any Personal Information regarding visitors and users with our business partners and advertisers. Please be aware that as an Internet Service Provider, laws in various jurisdictions in which we operate may obligate us to disclose user information and the contents of the Accounts to the local law enforcement authorities under specifically defined circumstances such as when complying with a formal request in a civil suit, court order, or subpoena. We reserve the right to disclose information to our services providers –to the extent necessary for them to provide their services- as well as law enforcement where necessary for protecting the safety of our users, employees, or the general public as we deem appropriate in our sole and absolute discretion.

How secure is your Information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your Personal Information, username, password, transaction information and data stored in your Account. Access to your name and email address is restricted to our employees who need to know such information in connection with our services and are bound by confidentiality obligations.

Accessing, Updating and Removing Personal Information

We provide users with access to their personal information. Users may correct, update or remove any such personal information either by accessing their Applane Account or by contacting Applane Customer Support Services. Such changes may take up to 48 hours to take effect. We respond to all enquiries within 15 working days.

Enforcement of Privacy Policy

We make every effort, to ensure that Personal Information provided by you is used in conformity with this privacy policy. If you have any concerns regarding our adherence to this policy or the manner in which Personal Information is used for the purpose of providing the services, kindly contact Applane Customer Support Services at support@applane.com. We will contact you to address your concerns and we will also co-operate with regulatory authorities in this regard if needed.

Notification of Changes

Any changes to the Applane Privacy Policy will be posted on our websites in order to keep you informed of any changes. If at any point we decide to use personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses unless you have opted out from receiving all email notifications from us. You will not receive email notification of minor changes to the Applane Privacy Policy. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at http://www.applane.com/applane-privacy-policy.html periodically.

BLOG AND FORUMS

We provide the capacity for users to post information in blogs/forums throughout the site while sharing information in a public space. This information is publicly available to all users of these forums and visitors to Applane. We require registration to publish information, but given the public nature of both platforms, any personal information disclosed within these forums may be used to contact users with unsolicited messages. We encourage users to be cautious in disclosure of personal information in public forums as Applane is not responsible for the personal information users elect to disclose.

Applane also supports third party widgets on the site that allow users to share articles and other information on different platforms. These widgets do not collect, or store any personal information from users on the site and simply act as a bridge for your convenience in sharing information.

END OF PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at support@applane.com. We shall respond to all inquiries within 15 working days of receipt upon ascertaining your identity.