Privacy Policy

Safeguarding Your Personal Information: Our Commitment to Your Privacy and Data Protection

Information We Collect

Thank you for visiting the Afterburner website. Afterburner is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information

Personal Information

When you interact with our Website, we may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, postal address, and any other information.

Usage Information

We may also collect non-personal information about your use of our Website. This information may include your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages visited, and the referring website.

How We Use Your Information

1. Our Commintment to your Privacy

Afterburner Inc is the entity that primarily controls the Web Site. Afterburner Inc (“Afterburner”) is committed to respecting your privacy. This privacy policy and statement of cookie use (the “Privacy Policy”) discloses our privacy practices and expresses our commitment to keeping you informed of the information we collect and how it is used. We ask that you take time to read it carefully. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect new uses, rules, regulations or technologies that impact your privacy. We recommend that users review our Privacy Policy on a routine basis to view any changes. This Privacy Policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies and business practices. This Privacy Policy applies to and governs data collection and usage at www.Afterburner.com, including the content, features, and any microsites, blogs and discussion groups that are a part of www.Afterburner.com (the “Web Site”). The Web Site includes certain pages hosted by third party service providers, which are branded to look like www.Afterburner.com and collect personally identifiable information and perform other tasks on behalf of Afterburner (“Branded Sites”). These Branded Sites are governed by this Privacy Policy unless indicated otherwise on the Branded Site. Please read this Privacy Policy in its entirety. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY, THEN DO NOT USE THIS WEB SITE. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the terms of use for the Web Site www.afterburner.com/terms-conditions/.

2. The Information we collect and how it is used

You make the decision whether or not to proceed with any activity that requests personally identifiable information, but please be aware that if you choose not to provide the information requested, you may not be able to complete certain transactions with Afterburner.

Sometimes, such as when you register for a service or log in to a customer extranet site (such as Client Community), order a product or make other requests or inquiries, we will ask for specific information about you in order to provide that product or service to you or respond to your requests or inquiries. We may collect certain personally identifiable information such as contact information, including name, e-mail address, work and home telephone numbers, fax number and a physical postal address. We may also collect information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, past experience with Afterburner products and services, detailed contact preferences or other personally identifiable information. We may use any information that we collect, including personally identifiable information, to tailor subsequent communications to you, including marketing and promotional communications, to administer and operate the Web Site and our business and to provide and continually improve Afterburner offerings. We may also share information that we collect, including personally identifiable information, with resellers or other third parties in order to market Afterburner products and/or services to you. We do, however, provide our users a choice as to whether or not they would like to receive marketing or promotional communications. Please see Section 3, Choice.

Users may from time to time receive up-to-date information on products and services via our e-mail newsletter. Users may opt-out at any time from receiving these communications. Please see Section 3, Choice.

We may also periodically conduct business and individual user surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us to improve our products and services. Participation in such surveys is completely

3. A special note about tracing technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts may be used on the Web Site by Afterburner and our marketing and analytics partners. These technologies are used for operation of the Web site or service that you request as a user of the Web Site, such as to remember text you may have entered when you navigate back to the page in the same session. We also use technologies to provide optional features and functionality that you may access on the Web Site. For example, a cookie can help us identify whether you have downloaded software in the past so that you won’t have to download it again. We use tracking technologies to customize and personalize the Web Site based on preferences you may have expressed either directly by selecting an option or setting or indirectly by your prior use. We also use tracking technologies that collect information about how you use the Web Site to analyze and optimize the performance of the Web Site in order to give you a better user experience. In some cases, particularly with respect to measuring and analyzing performance of the Web Site, tracking technologies may be placed by our third-party service providers. We and our third-party marketing and analytics providers may use beacons to help better manage content on the Web Site. Beacons also may be used to understand and monitor online movements of users so that we may better understand and improve their experiences on the Web Site.

We partner with third party ad networks to either display our advertising on our Web Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partners use cookies, scripts, tags and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.

When you click on a link to an external web site or third party resource (including embedded widgets similar those provided by Facebook and Twitter), the third party may place a cookie from its own site. Afterburner does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party web site for more

4. Choice

We may use your personally identifiable information for purposes not directly related to products and/or services you have requested or other requests or inquiries you have made, such as to send you e-mail communications, Afterburner’s newsletter, information about our discussion forums and customer service communications information on new products or offers and information from Afterburner’s partners unless you direct us not to do so by opting-out at the point where the information is collected. Additionally, you may opt-out from use of your personally identifiable information collected online for the purpose of sending such marketing or promotional communications at any time by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or by following the unsubscribe instruction contained within each of the newsletters or promotional communications you receive. We will retain your information for as long as needed for the purposes for which it was collected, and in accordance with our retention policies, as applicable. We will retain and use your information as appropriate to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

5. Sharing of Information

Unless Afterburner has your permission or is required by law, or except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, Afterburner will not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information to others, except in order to provide you with the products and services you request. Afterburner will only share the personally identifiable information you provide online with other Afterburner affiliates, resellers or other marketers of Afterburner’s products, Afterburner’s partners and/or service providers who may be used to ship products, provide technical support, handle order processing, or otherwise act on Afterburner’s behalf for the purpose of marketing and providing Afterburner products and services, administering and operating the Web Site and our business and sending marketing and promotional communications. Afterburner may also share your information with its affiliates so that they may provide you with information about their own products and services and for other marketing and promotional purposes.

Please remember that when you submit information to a discussion group or some other public or online forum, the information submitted will be deemed public information and will not be considered confidential or treated by Afterburner as other personally identifiable information you specifically provide to Afterburner, which is subject to this Privacy Policy. On our Client Community site, you may remove information you posted to the “Collaborate With Others” section of the site. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personally identifiable information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

We may share or disclose your personally identifiable information if such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with legal process (such as a court order) or other legal requirements of any governmental authority; (b) protect our rights or property; (c) protect the interest of users of the Web Site, other than you, or any other person; or (d) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of our services or equipment, as authorized by law.

6. Links

Afterburner may provide you with links to other websites that may be operated by companies not affiliated with Afterburner. Please be aware that Afterburner is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Afterburner does not endorse them or make any representations about them or any information, services, products or materials found on them. Linked websites may have their own privacy policies or notices, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. We are not responsible for the content of any websites that are not affiliated with Afterburner, any use of those websites, or the privacy practices of those websites.

7. Data transfer and Security

We may transfer the personally identifiable information we collect about you to countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law.

We will take steps intended to safeguard personally identifiable information stored on our systems from unauthorized access or disclosure. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online services, and you do so at your own risk.

8. How to access and correct your Information

Afterburner strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate and up-to-date. Should you find inaccuracies in your personally identifiable information and wish to amend, correct or delete the same, please contact us through one of the communication methods described below in Section 12, Contacting Us. To the extent required by applicable law, Afterburner will respond to requests to update personally identifiable information within 30 days of the reception of the request.

To opt out of all future marketing and promotional correspondence from Afterburner, please email [email protected] with Unsubscribe in the subject line or follow the unsubscribe instructions contained in the e-mail communications you receive. To the extent required by applicable law, your request will be met within 10 business days.

9. Notification of Changes

Afterburner reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy that results in the use of personally identifiable information that is inconsistent in material respects with the practices described at the time of collection, we will notify you and provide you with the choice as to whether or not you will allow us to use your information in this different manner. In the event there is a material change in our privacy practices that does not affect user information already stored in our database, a notice will be posted on our Web Site notifying all users of the change.

10. Children

Afterburner does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from users under the age of 13. Children under 13 should not send any information about themselves to Afterburner. If a child under 13 submits information through any part of the Web Site, and Afterburner becomes aware that the person submitting the information is a child, we will attempt to delete this information as soon as possible.

11. (FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS) California Privacy Rights

California law gives California residents the right to ask us for a notice describing the categories of personally identifiable information we share with third parties or affiliates for their direct marketing purposes. The notice will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it has been shared, along with their names and addresses. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please contact us through one of the communication methods described below in Section 12, Contacting Us. Please allow 30 days for a response.

12. Acceptance of Privacy Policy

By using the Web Site, you signify your assent to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Web Site. Your continued use of this Web Site following posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes

13. Contact us with comments and concerns

We welcome your comments. Should you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us: via e-mail at [email protected], by telephone at (404) 835-3500, or by mail to: Afterburner, Attn: Afterburner Legal Department, 3525 Piedmont Road NE, Suite 5-435, Atlanta, GA 30305. If you have any questions or concerns about personally identifiable information with regards to employment applications please contact our marketing department by telephone at (404) 835-3500.

Last Updated: May 24, 2018