Your privacy is very important to us.  NextIO provides this Privacy Policy to inform you about our policy and our practices regarding the collection and use of information about visitors to our web site.  This Privacy Policy applies only to the information that NextIO collects online from visitors to the NextIO website.  This policy does not apply to any third-party sites that are linked to the NextIO site, and NextIO has no control over these sites or their privacy policies. NextIO reserves the right to modify its Privacy Policy at any time.

Non-Personal Information

We collect non-personal information about each visitor to our site, including basic information about your computer and your connection, the type of browser used to access our site, your IP address, the site from which you came, the pages you visit in the NextIO site, a date/time stamp, and how much time you spend on the site.  We use this information for general research on our visitors and how they access and use our site to improve our site. 

We also use cookies to collect information which allows us to track the interests and preferences of our visitors.  We use both session cookies, which terminate as soon as the visitor closes his or her browser, and persistent cookies, which are small files that remain stored on the visitor’s hard drive for longer periods of time and which may be removed by following the browser’s help instructions.  Cookies are not tied to any personal or personally identifiable information.

Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information about visitors who browse our website.  However, if you choose to contact us through our website, we will collect your contact information.  If you are a NextIO partner or customer and have been granted access to the Secure Site using your logon and password, we also collect contact information and general company business information, and maintain a database of this information in order to service customer and partner requests and inquiries but will not identify service requests or technical requests of one customer to another customer.

NextIO may provide your name and contact information to NextIO service partners that NextIO uses to respond to technical support queries.  Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may also need to disclose personal information when required by law when we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.  We may disclose personal information in order to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.  We also share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.

Accuracy and Access

If you are registered with NextIO and have obtained a log-on and password, and any of your personally identifying information changes or if you want to review what personally identifying information NextIO has stored in your profile, you can review and update your profile by contacting us at the following e-mail address:   NextIO-Marketing@NextIO.com to request a change to your personally identifying information.

Children

Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the Site unsupervised, and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us.  If you are under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in conjunction with and under the supervision of your parents or guardians. 

Opt-out

You may opt-out of having your information used for any uses not directly related to our site.  If you choose not to receive any of our communications, you may opt out by contacting us at the following email address:  NextIO-Marketing@NextIO.com

Third-Party Advertising

We do not have any special partnerships or arrangements with any third-party ad-server companies.

Business Transitions

In the event that NextIO goes through a business transition, such as a merger, an acquisition by another company, or a sale of all or a portion of its assets, the personal information of our visitors may be shared or transferred.  Visitors will be notified via a prominent notice on our web site for 30 days after a change of ownership or control of NextIO of the transfer of their personal information if the intended use of their personal information will be contrary to this policy.  However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with the ability of NextIO to transfer all or part of its business and/or assets (including the Site), for any purposes, without any limitation whatsoever.  NextIO specifically reserves the right to transfer or share a copy of personally identifiable information collected from it site to the buyer of that portion of its business relating to that information.

Security

This website takes reasonable precautions to protect our visitors’ information.  When visitors submit sensitive information via the Site, their information is protected both online and offline.  We have invested in high quality security in terms of access to information, data quality, and physical security of servers where information is stored.  We implement a variety of security measures, including encryption and other measures against hacking or unauthorized access to protect information that you may provide during your visit from loss, misuse, interception and hacking. The servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment.  Employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy policies.

Nevertheless, when disclosing any personal information via the Internet, there is always the risk that your information may be intercepted without our consent and, consequently, can be collected and used by others without your consent.  In addition, third party sites that are accessed through links on our sites have separate privacy policies and security measures, and NextIO is not responsible or liable for the practices, policies or security measures implemented on these third party sites.

You hereby acknowledge that NextIO is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner

Changes to the Policy

NextIO may amend and update this policy at any time, and will post any changes to the policy on its website so that visitors are always aware of what information is collected, how it is used, and under what circumstances, if any, it is disclosed.  All changes will be deemed effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at: NextIO-Marketing@NextIO.com

Last Updated:  10-15-05