Rice Studios respects and protects the privacy of our customers and those who use our
websites. The following Privacy Policy details how your
personal information is collected and used. This privacy policy applies to
the network of Rice Studios websites and domains.
Information
Collection and Use
Rice Studios is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We
will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from
what is disclosed in this statement. Rice Studios collects information from
our users at several different points on our website.
Our websites offers several
opportunities for visitors to register for promotional and informational
mailings, online webinars and resources, and for assistance in evaluating our
software and services. These registration forms are often linked to Rice Studios' mailing lists and require users to give contact information (such as
name and email address). We use this contact information to send users
information about our company and its products and services if requested or
necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time (see the
choice/opt-out section below).
Sharing and Usage
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties
for their promotional use. Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third
parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (for example, providing
customer service). The contracts prohibit them from using any of your personal
information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the
confidentiality of the information we provide to them. We may also disclose
information to partners who introduced you to Rice Studios' services in
order to ensure they are properly compensated for their efforts. Lastly, we may
disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we
believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example,
we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with
regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such
as court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.
Use of Web
Technologies
We use a variety of technologies on our sites. Among these are cookies; a piece
of information that our websites provide to your browser when you visit our
sites. Cookies allow us to verify the login status of customers using products
or services linked directly with our website, track point of entry to point of
registration for those users participating in our affiliate signup programs,
and to track and measure the success of a particular marketing campaign.
Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users
prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our websites easier by recognizing
you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still
use our site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our
websites.
We may access and set
cookies using web beacons, also known as single-pixel GIFs which are invisible
graphical images. These web beacons provide us useful information regarding our
site such as which pages users access. When we send you emails, we may include
a single-pixel GIF to allow us to determine the number of people who open our
emails. When you click on a link in an email, we record this individual
response to allow us to customize our offerings to you.
We also keep track of
activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect
information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view.
We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links you click on to
leave our site. Once you leave our site, we do not track you. We use your
website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience,
assist you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server,
administer our websites and to tailor our product and service offerings to you.
Links
Some of our sites provide links to third-party websites, such as those of our
business partners and online advertisers. While on these sites, Rice Studios or its partners may collect information about you. Because Rice Studios does not control the information policies or practices of these third
parties, you should review their privacy policies to learn more about how they
collect and use personally identifiable information.
Security
We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality and security of your
personal information by using industry-recognized security safeguards such as
firewalls, coupled with carefully developed security procedures to protect your
information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. When we ask for
sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, we protect it through the
use of encryption during transmission, using 128 bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate.
Rice Studios takes care
to reinforce the importance of our website visitors' security and privacy among
our employees. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your
information and, using physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, we
restrict access to personal information to those employees and agents for
business purposes only. Additionally, we use internal and external resources to
review the adequacy of our security procedures.
Choice/Opt-out
Rice Studios provides users the opportunity to opt-in or opt-out via a link in the footer of most email messages. These options are
made available when you sign-up for our email lists and in email messages
delivered from our company. Alternatively, you may email us at .
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Should you have any additional questions, please send an email
to .
