BottomLine Solutions, Inc. ("BLS") is very sensitive to the privacy concerns of visitors to http://www.bottomlineacct.com (the "Web site"). The BottomLine Solutions Online Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains our practices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal and non-personal information provided by visitors to our Web site. By using the Web site, visitors signify their assent to our privacy practices and the Terms of Use of our Web site.
At www.bottomlineacct.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit www.bottomlineacct.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
In general, we only collect personal information from visitors when they voluntarily submit it to us. Personal information that we may collect includes, but is not necessarily limited to, first and last name, telephone number, physical address, e-mail address, payment method, credit card number, credit card expiration date, and password.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forms.
We also use third party advertisements on www.bottomlineacct.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Visitors are always free to decline cookies, but in doing so they may not be able to use certain features of our Web site. The "help" segment of the toolbar on most browsers explains how to configure a browser to not accept new cookies, how to have the browser inform a user when they receive a new cookie, and how to erase cookies from the hard drive.
BLS may use information collected from visitors to its Web site for any of the following purposes:
Non-personal information will be used for purposes of conducting internal reviews of the Web site, monitoring the Web site, and providing an enhanced online experience for visitors.
BLS may transfer or otherwise disclose the information it collects from visitors the Web site to employees and independent contractors of BLS, subsidiaries and affiliates of BLS, consultants, and other business associates, service providers, and suppliers, if the disclosure will enable that party to perform a business, professional, or technical support function for BLS, or if required to do so by law. BLS may also disclose information it collects from its site visitors to BLS marketing and business partners, who may use the information in connection with their business operations, such as to send marketing and other communications to visitors of the Web site. BLS will also transfer or otherwise disclose personal information in response to judicial process, and, as permitted under provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on a matter related to public safety.
BLS maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. We allow access to personal information only to persons and entities engaging in activities provided for by this Privacy Policy. We use Secure Socket Layer technology, among other technologies, to protect any credit card information you provide us.
In the event that BLS or any of its assets are acquired by a third party, personal information acquired by us may be one of the assets transferred.
By visiting the Web site, visitors agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. To the extent that any of the third-party sites accessible through the Web site have different privacy practices from those stated in this Privacy Policy, those third-party privacy practices govern the collection and use of information visitors provide when visiting those sites. BLS is not responsible for the policies, content, and practices of other companies.
On occasion, it may be necessary for BLS to change the terms of this Privacy Policy. To ensure that visitors are aware of current privacy practices, we recommend that they check the Web site periodically. Visitors can be assured that any changes that we make will not be applied retroactively and that we will not materially change how we handle previously collected information without visitors' consent.
