Amuse, Inc. is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. Should you choose to provide your personally identifying information on any form found on our site, you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with Amuse. Amuse will not sell, rent, or otherwise share your Information with any third party except as noted below.

By visiting this Website you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy as a whole, please do not use or access this Website.

1. What Information About You Is Collected And How It Is Used.
When you order a product or service from Amuse, Amuse and its transaction processing vendor may collect your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and credit card information. This information is used to process your order and deliver the Amuse product or service to you. Your credit card information is not stored by Amuse, but other information may be stored so that Amuse can provide you with activation codes, communicate with you regarding technical support, keep you informed of upgrades to your Amuse products and the availability of new Amuse products, and send out occasional newsletters.

When you contact Amuse through the Contact Us link on the Amuse website, Amuse collects and temporarily stores your name and email address. Amuse uses this information to reply to you. When you contact Amuse regarding a product registration problem, Amuse will store your information permanently if Amuse provides you with a new product registration number.

When you use Amuse products and services, Amuse may collect and log certain information about your computer in order to verify your right to use such products and services. For example, Amuse may collect and log the version of your operating system and it's IP address, as well as other information specific to your computer and the Amuse product or service it is using.

My Living Desktop has a feature that enables the software to manually or automatically check the Amuse website for updates, newly added Scenes, and Scenes you may have purchased. You may turn off this automatic feature via the System Preferences control panel for My Living Desktop. Please note that if you turn this feature off, you will not automatically have access to Amuse software updates. When on, and the software checks for updates or Scenes (roughly once a week), or when manually checking, the registration number assigned to you is sent with an industry standard UUID. Amuse logs this information into an Amuse database. The registration number itself does not contain any personally identifying information.

Amuse does not knowingly collect information from persons under the age of 13. If Amuse determines that information of a person under the age of 13 has been collected by Amuse, it shall delete such information as soon as practicable.

The Amuse website may contain links to third-party websites. This Privacy Policy is applicable only to the collection and use of your information by Amuse and its affiliates, and Amuse is not responsible for the privacy practices of the owners of such linked third-party websites.

2. How Amuse Protects Your Information.
Highly sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) you provide when purchasing Amuse products or services is protected with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. We use a variety of other security procedures to help protect your information, including limiting access to only those employees who have a need to know, and maintaining our databases in a controlled environment.

3. Sharing Of Information
Your information may be shared with certain companies that assist Amuse in the processing and delivery of your purchase of Amuse products and services, facilitate communications between you and Amuse, and help Amuse improve its products, services, and website. Amuse does not sell your information to these companies and Amuse does not permit these companies to use your information for any purpose other than the interactions between you and Amuse.

Amuse may collect and share with third parties non-personally identifying, aggregate information regarding use of Amuse products and services and the Amuse website. For example, Amuse may share statistics collected by its web hosting company regarding the number of times Amuse customers clicked on a certain section of the Amuse website, but not how many times any one particular Amuse customer clicked on a certain section of the Amuse website.

While Amuse is committed to protecting your privacy, Amuse reserves the right to disclose your personal information if:
Amuse believes doing so is necessary to comply with legal requirements.
Amuse is protecting its rights, including enforcement of its agreements.
Amuse is acquired by, or merges with, another entity.
Amuse determines that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

4. Managing Your Information
You may occasionally receive information on Amuse products, upgrades, services, special deals, or newsletters. These communications are infrequent. Out of respect for your privacy, you can choose to opt-out of any such future email communications. If you choose to opt-out of future communications with Amuse, you can simply click on the “opt-out” link in the email you received.

If your information changes, you can provide us with updated information by emailing us via the Contact Us section of the Amuse website.

Amuse may make changes to this Privacy Policy. If Amuse makes a material change to this Privacy Policy, a notice will be posted on the Amuse website along with the updated Privacy Policy. You should visit the Amuse website periodically to check for changes to this Privacy Policy.

5. Technologies Used To Collect Information
Amuse can collect and store information retrieved through cookies, log files, and clear gifs to create a profile of our users in the aggregate. Nothing identifying any one particular user is ever recorded.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer tied to information about you. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Review your browser’s Help section for instructions on how to remove persistent cookies. More information regarding cookies can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_cookie.

Log Files
Like most standard website servers, our web hosting company collects certain information and stores it in log files. The information collected includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. We use this information in the aggregate to analyze trends, administer our website, track user’s movements through our website, and gather broad demographic information about our user base. We may also use this information as part of Amuse's fraud prevention efforts.

Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We may employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs) which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. The main difference between cookies and clear gifs is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We use clear gifs to improve our website, making your experience with it more effective.

6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the information collection practices of Amuse or its affiliated companies, please send us an email via the Contact Us section of our website.

Last Updated November 7, 2009.