Collection of Personal Information

Opt-In Collection

- Newsletters and Product Update Notices

On our Website, we may ask for personal information from those who wish to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter and e-mail notification of product updates. You are not required to provide personal information beyond name and e-mail address.

Collection Where We Need Information (Not Opt-In)

1. Order Placement

When you place an order online with us, we collect information about you, including your name, address, e-mail address and credit card information. This information is necessary in order for us to process and complete your order.

2. Product Registration

Product registration information includes the product acquired as well as your name, address, and e-mail address and telephone number. Thought Studios reserves the right to limit free technical support to registered users. The only way to assure that you will be entitled to free technical support for a product in the future is to register with Thought Studios.

Product upgrade pricing and some special offers are only available to registered users.

Anonymous Information Collection

- Website and FTP site visits

Thought Studios collects general usage information about visitors coming to our Web and FTP sites.

About Cookies

Sometimes our Web and FTP servers collect this general information with the help of cookies. A cookie is a small file that a Website writes to your hard drive when you visit that site. Cookies cannot read information from your hard drive or read information from other cookies. If you turn off cookies in your Web browser, you will still be able to access and browse the Thought Studios Web and FTP sites.

Use of Personal Information

Thought Studios will use personal information that it has collected to:

• Provide you with notices of new information that may be of use or interest to you. This may include newsletters, notification on the availability of new products and product updates.
• Warn you of the impending termination of the trial period of evaluation versions of our software. (Some products' evaluation licenses do not expire).
• Register licensed copies of the product in your name. We do not keep credit card information as part of your product registration.
• Determine, at our discretion, your eligibility to receive product support on our software.
• Survey you (and others) in an attempt to improve our Website, our products, or our business.
• Notify you of third-party products that we believe might be of interest to you. Thought Studios will not share personal information with third parties without first obtaining your express consent.
• Improve the quality of our Website.
• Help us analyze general traffic patterns throughout our site.