"Slimware Utilities" is dedicated to protecting the privacy of its subscribers and safeguarding any personal information submitted to any of our Internet-based services. This Policy specifies the ways in which we manage and protect personal information when a subscriber transmits data to SlimwareUtilities.com or to any Internet-based service subsidiary to Slimware Utilities.

Web Information

When the customer, hereafter represented as "you" and "your," agrees to purchase Slimware Utilities software, we may collect a limited amount of personal information. This information includes your address, email address and name and constitutes the the minimal data required to record and fulfill a business transaction. If and when we use the services of a payment processing merchant, we take pains to ensure that the same security measures governing the transaction of data on SlimwareUtilities.com are in place regarding transactions with this merchant.

We never knowingly collect personal data from any person or persons under the age of eighteen.

The Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data string of information that is stored automatically on your computer when you access our servers. The various products distributed by SlimWare Utilities use cookies, so defined, in order to provide to our customers and affiliates faster services, to deter Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on our servers, to deter fraudulent transactions and to facilitate the proper distribution of sales credit to our partners.

Every cookie that is assigned to a system that accesses our servers is non-unique and non-identifiable. All cookies distributed by SlimwareUtilities.com or by any Slimware Utilities subsidiary Web-service is designate secure and non-invasive by the following criteria:

  • The cookies are smaller than 5KB in length
  • The cookies are of a limited duration
  • The cookies are visible only to SlimWareUtilities.com
  • The cookies contain no personally identifying information
  • The cookies are not unique to a given computer system

Slimware Utilities products use cookies to track affiliate sales and not to build customer profiles. This tracking process allows Slimware Utilities to assign correct payment to affiliates for their sales and for tracing activities directly related to their affiliated relationship with us.

Security

To protect your personally identifying information, we store all transaction records only on limited-access servers. These servers are accessable only through encrypted means. This is done to protect the security of personal data as well as the security of the servers themselves. Once retained, we keep personally identifying information only long enough to complete a transaction, to deter fraud, to provide customer service, and/or to maintain your account with us. If one or more of these stated conditions is not applicable, we delete the personally identifying information.

How Collected Information is Used

We may use information in the following ways:

  • To process, validate and verify purchases.
  • To register you as a customer of a Slimware Utilities Product. This process facilitates our creating and maintaining a customer support account on your behalf.
  • To send out email notifications concerning existing products or new products and/or services. Emails are also sent out to notify you of special offers when they are issued, and to contact you to confirm or verify (if needed) the accuracy of information provided to us.
  • To obtain feedback so as to help enhance existing product features or provide additional products and services.
We retain the right to disclose personally identifying information in special circumstances wherein it is necessary to protect our service or enforce our agreements. We may invoke this retention if doing so will help us protect our intellectual property rights. We may also disclose or use personally identifying information if and when we believe, in good faith, that the law requires us to do so.

We do not sell or distribute any personally identifying information to third parties for purposes of advertising or outside the bounds set forth in this policy statement.

Slimware Utilities Product Behavior

Neither Slimware Utilities nor any of its subsidiary products collect personally identifying information from your computer. All Slimware Utilities products are equipped with a full-access install sequence. Upon uninstallation, no Slimware Utilities product leaves any active or executable data on your computer. What is left is an inert, text-based log file, deposited in an accessible directory on your hard drive. This log indexes events that have occurred in the course of using a Slimware Utilities product. Such events include but are not limited to listing corrected errors. This file is left as a courtesy to our customers. It can be easily deleted. If retained, this file can be used by support technicians as a reference, whether or not those technicians are associated with Slimware Utilities.

Update Services

All Slimware Utilities products routinely communicate with our server to receive updates to their respective databases. The only data transmitted to the server at this time is the version of software product currently installed on your PC. This update process can be managed and/or disabled via the Settings dialog in the respective application. By default, update processes in Slimware Utilities products are downloaded only after you are notified of their availability and have given consent for download.

Policy Modifications

We reserve the right to, from time to time, change this Privacy Policy without notice. Any changes will be posted here, so please check this page periodically for the most up-to-date information.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at support@SlimWareUtilities.com.