PRIVACY POLICY

InventorHelpCenter.com is firmly committed to the privacy of its members. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
• InventorHelpCenter.com does not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties.
• InventorHelpCenter.com does not share your contact information with other users or third parties without your consent.
• Any personally identifiable information that you provide to InventorHelpCenter.com will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.

Information Collection

InventorHelpCenter.com is an online marketplace that connects Clients with Intellectual Property Professionals. When you visit InventorHelpCenter.com you provide two types of information: (1) personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by InventorHelpCenter.com and (2) Website use information collected by InventorHelpCenter.com as you interact with the InventorHelpCenter.com Website (the “Website”).
When you register with InventorHelpCenter.com as a Client or Intellectual Property Professional, you provide certain personal information, including, your name, mailing address and email address. Additionally, when you establish your profile as an Intellectual property Professional you will provide information relating to your skills, experience, education level, compensation, work availability, geographic region and self-evaluation.
When you enter the Website, InventorHelpCenter.com collects your IP address. This information is gathered for all InventorHelpCenter.com visitors. In addition, InventorHelpCenter.com stores certain information from your browser using “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. InventorHelpCenter.com uses session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, InventorHelpCenter.com uses a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you return to the Website. InventorHelpCenter.com members must have cookies enabled on their browser. Note: Cookie preferences are set within each browser’s Internet options/preferences.
If you post information on any public forum on this Website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to provide there can be read, collected, or used by others and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Company is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in public forums. InventorHelpCenter.com is the sole owner of the information collected through the Website.

Information Use

InventorHelpCenter.com will not sell or rent any collected information to third parties. InventorHelpCenter.com will not share your contact information with other users or third parties except in connection with official Website business. All registered InventorHelpCenter.com members click the “I AGREE” checkbox on the registration form to agree to the InventorHelpCenter.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Accordingly, all registered users agree that certain profile information is accessible to other registered users.
InventorHelpCenter.com records IP addresses for system administration purposes. This information is used to diagnose server problems, monitor traffic patterns, analyze trends, administer the website, track member user patterns, and identify the most popular areas of the website to deliver content most relevant to registered members. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information and are only used to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use, except in the case of fraud. Unfortunately, we are unable to ensure that disclosure of your personal information will not occur in ways neither intended nor described in the Privacy Policy due to malicious or negligent acts of third parties including, but not limited to other Registered Users.
InventorHelpCenter.com reserves the right to share aggregated demographic information with its partners and/or advertisers, such information will not be linked to personal information that identifies registered users, except in the case of fraud.

Mandatory Disclosure

InventorHelpCenter.com may be required by law to disclose information to government authorities, law enforcement agencies or third parties upon subpoena. Registered Users authorize us to disclose all information we determine to be responsive to any subpoena.

Google Analytics &AdWords

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics tracking to review visitor website activities, including: page views, source and time spent on our website. The collected information is depersonalized and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals. This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics, we learn how to give you a better visitor experience.
Google AdWords: Using Google AdWords tracking codes, we can see which pages help lead to different conversions on InventorHelpCenter.com. This allows us to better use our paid advertising budget.
Remarketing With Google Analytics: We use the Google Analytics remarketing code to log when visitors view specific web pages. This allows us to provide targeted advertising in the future.
• Third-party vendors, including Google, may show InventorHelpCenter.com’s ads across the Internet.
• InventorHelpCenter.com and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on a user’s past visits to InventorHelpCenter.com.

Opting Out:

Visitors can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using their Ads Settings. Additionally, visitors can opt out of the Google Analytics Browser Add-On.

Links

The Website may contain links to other websites and is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. InventorHelpCenter.com encourages its members to read the privacy policies of all websites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by InventorHelpCenter.com.

Security

InventorHelpCenter.com uses industry standard protocols and technology to protect registered user information. All monetary and encrypted transactions performed through InventorHelpCenter.com are conducted in a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session. The Secure Socket Layer encrypts all transaction data for transmittal in a format that prevents data theft. This process protects all private information from being disclosed to third parties. While on a secure page, the lock icon at the bottom of a Web browser (i.e. Firefox or Chrome) becomes locked.
InventorHelpCenter.com also protects registered user information offline. This information is stored on encrypted electronic media. Servers used to store personally identifiable information are housed in a secure, supervised environment. In addition, only InventorHelpCenter.com employees who need specific information to perform a task are granted access to personally identifiable information. In those cases when it is necessary to produce a non-electronic version of personally identifiable information when working with a user issue, only employees with a need for this information will have access to it and will destroy it once it is no longer needed.

Mandatory Communications

InventorHelpCenter.com sends all newly registered users a welcome email to verify their email addresses. At times, InventorHelpCenter.com sends service announcements to its registered Clients and Intellectual Property Professionals. Registered Users cannot unsubscribe from service announcements that discuss upcoming changes that affect their InventorHelpCenter.com accounts. In addition, we may communicate with registered members via personal emails or phone calls to provide requested services.

Optional Communications

Registered users may receive electronic communications containing information on InventorHelpCenter.com products, services and announcements. If Company sends any optional communications, Registered users will be given the option to opt-out of such communications in the future.

Notification of Changes

InventorHelpCenter.com reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. By continuing to use InventorHelpCenter.com after changes have been made to this policy, you are consenting to the changes.