Privacy

What is NetGeo's privacy policy? What are the implications of geo-intelligence technology for my personal privacy?
NetGeo™, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet customer intelligence solutions aimed at enabling web businesses to better serve their customers. The company's flagship product, NetGeo SM , actually enhances a user's web capabilities while being less intrusive than current intelligence methods such as cookies and required user registration. Moreover, NetGeo maintains personal privacy standards in the deployment of its technology and in all practices.

• Verifia's technology deployed by NetGeo is non-invasive. The geographic location methodologies are based soley on a web user's Internet Protocol (IP) address. NetGeo determines the geographic location of the IP server, and extrapolates broad geographic location about the user in terms of estimated country, city, state, city and zip code. Analysis is based on the IP address and not the user's physical location.
• Verifia's NetGeo does not associate IP addresses with a user's personal information. The technology does not utilize cookies, registration or click-stream data. There is no collection of personal data such as name, home or e-mail address.
• Verifia's business focuses on the prevention of identity fraud, retention of digital rights, improved analytics, and personalized marketing on the web. Verifia's pledge is to support web sites in providing the best service and experience to their web visitors by enabling more content to be available on the web and by providing the means for a more relevant, customized user web experience.
• While Verifia prides itself on serving respected clients who practice better business practices, Verifia does not control the privacy policies of its customers, and therefore cannot prevent customers from merging geographic information with data collected from non-NetGeo sources. For this reason, we encourage you to carefully examine the privacy policies of Web sites you frequent.

What kind of personal information does Verifia collect?
Verifia does not collect your personal data through out NetGeo solution. Personal information requested on our corporate web site at www.netgeo.com is entirely voluntary, at the discretion of a user who wishes to receive ongoing news about NetGeo. This requested information includes name, e-mail address, phone number. Passwords and user names are not required for the use of our site or for the receipt of additional company information.

Any information gathered through our corporate web site will be used to provide you with information about material developments within NetGeo, as per your request through the act of registering on our web site.

How does NetGeo collect information?
Verifia does not use cookies on its web sites, nor in its NetGeo product. Personalinformation provided voluntarily by an individual to NetGeo through the www.netgeo.com corporate web site is an opt-in process, solely at the discretion of the individual registering. Information gathered by Verifia's NetGeo product may include the country, state (where applicable), city, zip code, company, and Internet access method associated with the particular IP address from which you are using the Internet. This information is dynamically generated to provide network traffic patterns and is not stored by NetGeo for the creation of user profiles. Nor does NetGeo identify or record where individual users come from before they enter a particular web site, or where they go after they leave that site.

How does NetGeo use the information that it does collect?
Your personally idenfiable information will never be sold or shared by NetGeo with any
affiliated or unaffiliated third parties, except in unusual circumstances as required by law.
For example, in a legal case, NetGeo may be required by law to confirm that you had registered on our web site, or that your IP address is based in a certain country. Or NetGeo may share information to a third party in order to protect and defend the rights and property of NetGeo, its customers, partners, or other affiliates. NetGeo reserves the right to share aggregated information of a non-personal nature with third parties.

Moreover, any email that you send to NetGeo will be considered confidential to within the company and its affiliates, unless you have expressly provided us with permission to forward the email to unaffiliated parties.

Does Verifia use cookies?
No, Verifia does not use cookies on its web sites, nor in its NetGeo product.
Nor does the company use outside advertising companies to display online ads on our web site that may contain cookies.

Will I be contacted if I register on the NetGeo web site?
NetGeo is a business-to-business company. As such, our direct customers are business organizations and NetGeo does not directly provide products or services to the individual consumer market. Nor does the company require registration in order to view the contents of its web site. As such, registration on the NetGeo web site is voluntary and solely at the discretion of the user. Information obtained by the company through the registration process is only for the purposes of providing the web visitor with new information about NetGeo.

On occasions when there is a material news development or another relevant situation, such as the updating of an email address that is no longer functioning, NetGeo will contact its registered users by electronic mail or telephone (if provided by the registrant).

I registered on the NetGeo web site to get on the company's email list. How is my personal information protected and secured?
NetGeo understands the need for our constituents' personal data to be completely secure and private, and we have deployed a robust system to protect our customer's personal information. The company maintains physical (alarm systems, locks), electronic (firewall) and policy (limited internal access, privacy and safety guidelines) safeguards to protect any personal information. Moreover, we do not create user profiles and registered users may choose to remove themselves from the NetGeo database and mailing list at any time.

Does this Privacy Policy apply to third party web sites using Verifia's NetGeo solution?
No. This Privacy Policy only applies to Verifia and the company web site, and not to sites that employ the NetGeo technology. NetGeo does not accept responsibility for the actions and policies of third party web sites you access, either with regard to the personal information you have provided to them, or which you have implicitly authorized by allowing for the storage of cookies on the hard drive of your computer(s).

You should be careful to review any privacy policies posted on third party web sites before signing up with or using them. While NetGeo prides itself on partnering with quality organizations who engage in best business practices, including the utilization of Privacy Policies meant to protect an individual's personal information, NetGeo cannot not control and does not accept responsibility for the services provided to you by third party web sites.

Who can I contact if I have any questions regarding my privacy?
You can contact NetGeo for any questions or suggestions you may have regarding your personal privacy at privacy@netgeo.com. For more information regarding the general topic of privacy, you may refer to the following organizations:

- TRUSTe and BBBOnline
- The Federal Trade Commission also offers an overview of privacy protection

How will disputes regarding the Privacy Policy be handled?
If you have a problem or dispute with Verifia regarding this Privacy Policy or the treatment of your personal information, this problem or dispute will be subject to this Privacy Policy and the laws governing privacy in California, where NetGeo operates, and in Delaware, where the company is incorporated.