document: {"document":{"title":"privacy statement","text":"Last Updated on Tuesday, October 12th - 2010\n\nThis Privacy Policy sets out the policy of AME Info FZ LLC of PO Box 502100, Al Thuraya Tower 1, 20th Floor, Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates (\"AMEinfo.com\"), who controls this website (www.ameinfo.com) (\"the Website\"). The terms of this Privacy Policy apply in addition to the Terms of Use for the Website and any other additional terms that may be provided in connection with any particular service offered on the Website. \n\nAME Info FZ LLC has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. The TRUSTe program does not cover information that may be collected through downloadable software. TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact using the site feedback form or at AMEinfo.com PO BOX 502100, Al Thuraya Tower 1, Dubai Media City or call +971 4 390 2700 \n\nIf you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here.\n\nAMEinfo.com keeps log files that include your IP address for statistic and logging of abuse purpose only. Log files are under no circumstances shared with any third party except if required by law or court order by a competent court. \n\nFrom time to time though we may invite you to supply personal information in order for us to authenticate your identity or to provide you with services from or in connection with the Website. In order to deliver such services, AMEinfo.com (or a third party on AMEinfo.com's behalf, which may be located in Dubai or Canada) will need to process and store your personal information, and may need or want to transfer it to third parties. By providing your personal information to AMEinfo.com (whether by signing up to the AMEinfo.com newsletter, updating and adding your company details to the database or other subscriptions on the AMEinfo.com Site or in connection with accessing and/or using other services offered on our website), you consent to such processing (by or on behalf of AMEinfo.com) in connection with such services and for any other purposes to which you consent at the time you provide the information or as provided in this Privacy Policy, and in particular you agree that: \n\n  * AMEinfo.com (or a third party on its behalf) can store and process your contact details and personal information if provided including: full name, e-mail, gender, company name and address, city, country, IP address, phone number, fax number, birth date, nationality, primary role, corporate website, number of employees and industry in a database; \n  * AMEinfo.com may use your personal information to send you information about issues AMEinfo.com finds or believes to be relevant to you, including third party information (however the sender will always be AMEinfo.com for easy identification); \n  * AMEinfo.com may contact you via email if its terms change, if authorities demand it, or when services are added, updated or modified; \n  * you can manually request to be deleted from our database and all information held about you by AMEinfo.com will be removed; \n  * AMEinfo.com may use, store, transfer and process your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and or any other purposes to which you consent at the time you provide the information; and \n  * if you choose to contact a company or organisation through AMEinfo.com or the Website, AMEinfo.com is entitled to disclose any of your information or details that it holds (including your IP address) to that company or organisation. \n\n\n\nYou can however, remove yourself from any of the AMEinfo.com mailing lists, commercial messages or info messages by following the instructions at the end of each email sent to you by AMEinfo.com or that are otherwise notified or made available to you. Any mailing lists or other personal information that we store and/or hold will in no way be shared, sold or in any other way revealed to any third parties other than (i) as specifically provided in this Privacy Policy or for a purpose that is made known to you at the time when you provide your personal information; or (ii) if required by law or court order by a competent court. \n\n### Cookies\n\nTo enhance your experience with AMEinfo.com, many of the AMEinfo.com web pages use \"cookies.\" Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store information about your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not reveal your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information, for example by registering on the Website. However, once you choose to furnish AMEinfo.com with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. \n\nAMEinfo.com uses cookies to understand Website usage and to improve the content and offerings on the Website. For example, AMEinfo.com uses cookies to personalize your experience (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Website), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to save articles and to build customized news feeds. \n\nYou are not obliged to accept cookies and you may amend your browser's settings to prevent it from accepting cookies. Please be aware though that if you disable cookies, certain services on this Website may not be available to you. \n\n### Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)\n\nOur third party advertising partner employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information. \n\n### Flash LSOs\n\nWe use local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences such as volume control or high game score, or display content based upon what you view on our site to personalize your visit. Third Parties, with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information. \n\nFlash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here:  \nhttp://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html#117118 \n\n### Email and Communication Services - Member account, password and security\n\nIf a particular service offered on the Website or any other AMEinfo.com owned web site requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing AMEinfo.com with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You then will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. You must not disclose your password to any third party. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. \n\nYou agree to notify AMEinfo.com immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. AMEinfo.com will not be liable for any loss or damages that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by AMEinfo.com or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder. \n\n### Use of Your Information\n\nAME may use your personal information for the following purposes: \n\n  * administering your Website account(s) and otherwise in connection with any service for which you have provided your information, including any email alerts, transactions with us, downloads you make from the Website and uploads you provide to the Website and competitions and promotions that you take part in; \n  * responding to any enquiry you make; \n  * subject to your consent, sending you newsletters and/or alerts and information regarding AMEinfo.com or any third party's future services (in all formats to which you have consented eg post, email, text); and \n  * for generating aggregated statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the AMEinfo.com Website(s) and other services and developing AMEinfo.com's marketing plans. \n\n\n\nAMEinfo.com may also disclose your information as follows: \n\n  * if you have given your consent for AMEinfo.com to do so, to other selected organisations to enable them to contact you or send you information by post, telephone and/or email; \n  * to any service providers, sub-contractors and agents appointed by AMEinfo.com to perform the above functions on its behalf and in accordance with its instructions; \n  * to Emap Limited (UK company no.537204) and all other affiliated companies (wherever in the world) which are part of the same group of companies to which AMEinfo.com belongs; \n  * to the third party who is the originator of a White Paper that you have downloaded from AMEinfo.com's White Papers Library (and to equivalent third parties in connection with any similar or equivalent service offered by this Website); \n  * in connection with the jobs section of this Website (www.jobs.ameinfo.com, and to which further Terms apply in connection with use of the same), to a recruiter (i) that has downloaded your CV (which you have uploaded and made available to the Website); and (ii) where you have replied to a job listing that has been advertised by such recruiter on the Website; \n  * to third parties selected by AMEinfo.com as part of aggregated and anonymised statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the AMEinfo.com Website(s); \n  * to such individuals and/or bodies as necessary to ensure AMEinfo.com compliance with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request; \n  * (where you post material that does or may constitute a criminal offence, breach the rights of a third party, give rise to a civil action or breach the Website's Terms of Use and as otherwise necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of AMEinfo.com and its customers), to any relevant authority or third party requiring AMEinfo.com to disclose the identity of or locate anyone posting such material on an AME Info FZ LLC / Emap Limited website; and \n  * to any individual making a subject information request to AMEinfo.com. \n\n\n\nIn the event that AMEinfo.com is acquired by or merges with another company, your personal information may be passed to the purchasing/merging company amongst the transferred business assets. This will enable your relationship to continue with the relevant AMEinfo.com business despite the change of ownership. Your personal information may also be passed (on a confidential basis) to companies with whom AMEinfo.com is negotiating such a sale/merger as part of the verification exercise carried out on AMEinfo.com by the third party. \n\n### Updated and changes\n\nIf we decide to change the terms of our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy, the homepage of the Website, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. \n\nIf your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire any of AMEinfo.com's services, you may correct, or update your preferences, by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail. \n\n### Discussion Forum\n\nIf you use the discussion forum, blog or comment field on this Website, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, blogs or comments, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. \n\nFurthermore, in some circumstances AMEinfo.com may display some of your personal information (name data) when you post material to a discussion forum, blog or comment field to allow users to identify each other. \n\n### Third party websites\n\nThis Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by AME Info FZ LLC. Please be aware that AME Info FZ LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. \n\nWe encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Website \n\n### Third party advertisers\n\nThe ads appearing on this Website are delivered to users by 24/7 Real Media, AMEinfo.com's advertising partner. We share Website usage information about users with 24/7 Real Media for the purpose of targeting our banner advertisements on this Website. \n\n24/7 Real Media uses cookies and clear GIFs on this Website, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this Website. The information that 24/7 Real Media collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable. \n\nFor more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please click here. \n\n### Security\n\nWe follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceppolicy_texts means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. \n\n### Send content to a colleague\n\nIf you choose to use our referral service to tell a colleague about this website or a specific article or service, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. AME Info will store this information, but solely for the purpose of sending the one-time invitation. \n\nIf you have any questions about security or privacy on our website, please contact us individually or as per the below contact details: \n\n### AME Info FZ LLC\n\nPO Box 502100  \nAl Thuraya Tower 1, 20th Floor  \nDubai Media City  \nUnited Arab Emirates\n\nPhone: +971(4)3902700 • Facsimile: +971(4)3908015 \n","paragraphs":null,"sentences":null,"language":null},"classifications":[{"level":"document","labels":["is_policy"],"label_definitions":null}]}