Privacy Policy
Potomac CAD, Inc. ("we", "us" or "our") and owns, manages, and operates www.PotomacCAD.com (the "Website"). Through this page, we intend to convey our commitment to honor and uphold the online privacy of the Website users. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”), inter alia, informs the users of the Website the mode through which we collect, use, protect, and, sometimes, disclose their personal and non-personal information. By using any of the features of this Website, the users acknowledge that they have understood, agreed, and accepted the provisions of this Policy, and any amendments thereof.
1. Updates
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy anytime without any prior notice to anyone. However, any substantial changes to this Policy shall be notified only to the registered users/members of this Website. Therefore, we strongly recommend that the users periodically check this page for the latest updates to this Policy. The continued usage of this Website or any features thereof shall signify the implied consent to the updated Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect and How We Use It
We collect only as much information from the users as is required to provide efficient, timely, and reliable services. We do not sell, rent or, otherwise commercially exploit your personal information. All such information is strictly used in accordance with the provisions of this Policy.
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Personally Identifiable Information
Anyone can visit this Website anonymously. However, if the users wish to use certain features and functionalities that are reserved for the registered members of this Website, they are required to apply for the membership by filling out and submitting the online registration form available on the Website. During the registration process, we collect certain personal details from the users, including but not limited to, user name, email address, postal address, telephone number, Company name, etc. This information is used to contact the registered users, informing about the Service(s) that match their profile, resolving disputes, providing customer support, troubleshooting, enforcing our Terms of Use Agreement, or any other matter that involves protection of our legal and proprietary interests. This information is also used to personalize and customize our services for the individual users of the Website.
The email of the users is used to communicate with the users with regards to certain important matters, including without limitation, sending updates to the Website’s features and functionality. We may also use the email for sending periodic newsletters to our users. However, the users can opt not to receive unnecessary messages from the Website by clicking the unsubscribe within that communication.
Certain personal details, like Profile (Name, Photograph, Company Name, Business Name, Location, Area of Expertise, etc.), feedback and comments by other users will not be publicly available on this Website.
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Non-Personally Identifiable Information
During the course of interaction with this Website in any manner and in any capacity whatsoever, we also collect certain non-personally identifiable information from the users including, but not limited to, the user Internet Protocol (IP) Address, the IP Address of the Internet Service Provider (ISP), browser used to access this Website, operating system installed on the computer, and other aggregate and generic information. This information is used to improve the functionality and content of the Website, enhance the user experience of this Website, and offer improved targeted advertisements. This non-personally identifiable information may be shared with our advertisers and affiliates in order to provide the users with better services. However, this information, in no way, compromises the users’ online privacy.
Typically, cookies and other technologies are used to collect non-personally identifiable information from the users of the Website. Cookies are small text files placed on the hard drive of your computer system by our servers. Such cookies and other technologies so used do not collect any personally identifiable information from the users and are generally used to avoid repeat login during the same session while the users visit different pages of the Website.
3. Anti-Spam Policy
We have a strict anti-spamming policy, where none of our emails are unsolicited or involve any unwarranted commercial activity. The users may unsubscribe from receiving our emails by clicking “Unsubscribe” link attached to every email originating from our servers.
4. Data Disclosure
The following disclosures of information shall not attract the provisions of this Policy:
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Disclosure to government agencies in response to legal processes, including subpoena;
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Disclosure to auditors and investigators entrusted with auditing and/or investigating any suspected fraudulent activity on the Website;
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Disclosure to anyone in order to enforce our Terms and Conditions and other legal rights;
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Disclosure by the users themselves on any public or private forum including, social media sites, blogs, forums, chat programs, etc.;
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Disclosure to successor-in-interest in the case of sale or part-sale of the business including this Website or any part thereof.
5. Data Protection
We deploy several technological and human measures to protect your sensitive information collected by our servers. Such measures include SSL encryption (128 bits), which encrypts the flow of information to and from this Website and protects it from unauthorized access. However, notwithstanding any technological means we adopt, considering the nature of technology, we cannot ensure foolproof security of data from hackers and other criminal minds.
6. Data Access
Users may control or restrict access to their information by not providing any information that is not required. The users may also change, modify, or delete any information that they have provided by managing their account on the Website. Users may also choose to delete their registered accounts by managing their account on the Website.
7. Contact Us
In case there is any doubt concerning this Privacy Policy, please feel free to write to us at Service@PotomacCAD.com
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Last updated: October 1, 2024