Emergent Online: Privacy Policy 

Emergent ("EMERGENT") respects your privacy and is committed to protect the personal information that you share with us. Generally, you can browse through our website without giving us any information about yourself. When we do need your personal information to provide services that you request or when you choose to provide us with your personal information, this policy describes how we collect and use your personal information. Your use of EMERGENT's services and its website shall constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and any changes that may be made to it in the future.  

Information Collection 

Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, email address, a home, postal or other physical address, other contact information, title, birth date, gender, occupation, industry, personal interests, other information when needed to provide a service you requested. When you browse our website, you do so anonymously, unless you have previously indicated that you wish EMERGENT to remember your login and password. We don't automatically collect personal information, including your email address. We do log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) to give us an idea of which part of our website you visit and how long you spend there. Like many other commercial websites, the EMERGENT website may use a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how you use the site. Please go to "Cookies and Tracking Information" below for more information. 

EMERGENT collects personal information when you register with EMERGENT for an EMERGENT account, when you use certain EMERGENT products or services, when you register to attend a seminar or participate in an online survey, when you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list, when you submit an entry for a sweepstakes or other promotions, or when you submit your personal information to EMERGENT for any other reason. From time to time, EMERGENT receives personal information from business partners and vendors. EMERGENT only uses such information if it has been collected in accordance with acceptable privacy practices consistent with this Policy and applicable laws. 

Access to certain EMERGENT web pages require a login and a password. The use of those web pages, and the information or programs downloadable from those sites, may be governed by a written agreement between your employer and EMERGENT. Unless you request deletion of your personal information as specified below, your personal information may be retained by EMERGENT to verify compliance with the agreement, log software licenses granted, to track software downloaded from those pages, or track usage of other applications available on those pages. 

EMERGENT may make available third party applications through its services and websites. The information collected by EMERGENT when you enable a third party application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by third party applications is governed by the privacy policy of the third party application provider, so you should review and consider said privacy policies when using third party applications. 

When you send an email or other communications to EMERGENT, EMERGENT may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your inquiries and/or improve our services. All emails and other communications to EMERGENT become the property of EMERGENT upon receipt. 

Notice 

When personal information is collected, we will inform you at the point of collection the purpose for the collection. EMERGENT will not transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited conditions described under the discussion entitled "Information Sharing and Disclosure" below. If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we may only transfer that information, within EMERGENT or to EMERGENT's third party service providers with your permission. Upon receiving your permission, we may transfer your information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. 

We will always give you the opportunity to "opt out" of receiving direct marketing or market research information. This means we assume you have given us your consent to collect and use your information in accordance with this Policy unless you take affirmative action to indicate that you do not consent, for instance by clicking or checking the appropriate option or box at the point of collection. In some cases, when applicable, we will provide you with the opportunity to "opt in." This means we will require your affirmative action to indicate your consent before we use your information for purposes other than the purpose for which it was submitted.  

Cookies and Tracking Information 

A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of EMERGENT's website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of EMERGENT's website if you do so. In particular, you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on our website. You do not need to have cookies turned on, however, to use/navigate through many parts of our website, except access to certain of EMERGENT's web pages may require a login and password.  

How We Use Information Collected 

EMERGENT uses information for several general purposes: to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, to provide our services, including the display of content, to audit, research and conduct analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services, to ensure the technical functioning of our network, to protect the rights or property of EMERGENT and its users, to develop new services, to personalize your experience on our website, to keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, software updates, special offers or other information we think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners, and to better understand your needs and provide you with better services. We may also use your information to send you, or to have our business partners send you, direct marketing information or contact you for market research. 

Information Sharing and Disclosure 

Your personal information may be shared with EMERGENT’s parent, subsidiaries or affiliates. All such entities are governed by this Privacy Policy or are bound by the appropriate confidentiality and data transfer agreements. Your personal information is never shared outside EMERGENT without your permission, except under conditions explained in this Privacy Policy.  

Because EMERGENT is a global company, your personal information may be shared with EMERGENT affiliates around the world. All such entities are governed by this Privacy Policy or are bound by the appropriate confidentiality and data transfer agreements.  

Inside EMERGENT, data is stored in controlled servers with limited access. Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where EMERGENT, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates or agents are located. 

EMERGENT may send your personal information to other companies or people under any of the following circumstances: when we have your consent to share the information; we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of EMERGENT to provide a product or service to you (we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose); or we want to keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, software updates, special offers or other information we think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners (unless you have opted out of these types of communications). We will also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, to enforce our Terms of Use, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our websites.  

EMERGENT may also share your personal information when we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (1) satisfy any applicable law (Foreign, Federal, State or Local), regulation, legal process or enforceable government request, (2) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (3) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of EMERGENT, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.  

EMERGENT may also share with third parties certain aggregate information regarding the use of its services or website, such as, for example, the number of people who visit certain web pages or use certain services offered by EMERGENT.  

Data Security 

Your EMERGENT account information is password-protected for your privacy and security. EMERGENT safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. In certain areas of our websites, EMERGENT uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to enhance the security of data transmissions. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us, and so we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser. 

EMERGENT utilizes certain security measures to attempt to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures. EMERGENT restricts access to personal information to EMERGENT employees, contractors and agents who need to know and have access to this information. Although EMERGENT takes steps to protect the data that it collects from its users, it is simply not possible to protect against every conceivable breach of security. Although we do our best to make our website and data secure, we cannot guarantee the total security of our website and data. Accordingly, you agree that you will not hold EMERGENT responsible, and hereby release EMERGENT, for any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of user information that may occur, such as, for example, by a person hacking into our system and unlawfully gaining access to our data.  

EMERGENT processes personal information for the purpose for which it was collected and in accordance with its Privacy Policy. EMERGENT reviews its data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that it collects, stores and processes personal information needed to provide or improve its services, or as otherwise permitted under this Privacy Policy.  

EMERGENT depends upon its users to record, update and correct their personal information whenever necessary. EMERGENT asks that individual users review and update their personal information from time to time as this information becomes outdated. However, EMERGENT may decline to process requests to update information that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be impractical.  

Children and Privacy 

Our websites do not target and are not intended to attract children under the age of 13. EMERGENT does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 13 or send them requests for personal information. 

Third Party Sites 

EMERGENT's website contains links to other sites. EMERGENT does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies. 

Our website may contain links to websites operated by other companies. Some of these third-party sites may be co-branded with a EMERGENT logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by EMERGENT. Although we choose our business partners carefully, EMERGENT is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to our site or the content of those sites. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you. EMERGENT does not endorse or control any of the websites for which links are provided on EMERGENT's website, and users assume all risks of using these other websites and assume all responsibility for the policies and procedures of these other websites. 

Changes to This Privacy Policy 

EMERGENT will amend this policy from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion. If we make any substantial changes in our privacy policy or in the way we use your personal information we will make that information available by posting a notice on this site. If you have questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this website or at:  

Emergent
Attn: Privacy Policy Personnel
2835 North Naomi Street
Burbank, California 91504-4603  

This document revised effective January 3, 2011