Thumbworks Inc. (Thumbworks™) is committed to providing you with excellent service for all of our products. Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy practices for the entire Thumbworks site (which covers www.thumbworks.com).

This Privacy Statement will inform you of:

* What information our site gathers about you
* How we use and with whom we share the information we gather
* Your ability to opt-out of future notifications
* What security procedures we have in place to protect your information from loss, misuse, or alteration
* How you can correct or update your information

Questions regarding this Privacy Statement should be directed to privacy@thumbworks.com.

Overview

Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of our commitment to keep our users anonymous and their reported information confidential. We at Thumbworks are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of our subscribers and other visitors to our Web site. Whether you are a customer of our services or a visitor to our site, we assure you that we do not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us. You should also be assured that we do not provide or sell information about our customers or site visitors to anyone.

Please note that our site contains links to other sites. Thumbworks is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, or content regarding these other sites.

Privacy Policy Enforcement

Information We Gather from You

Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

There are two ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information: E-mail Request for Information - We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to contact us via e-mail to ask questions, request information and materials, register or sign up for services, or provide comments and suggestions. You may also be offered the opportunity to have one of our representatives contact you personally to provide additional information about our products or services. To do so, we may request additional personal information from you, such as your name and telephone number, to help us satisfy your request.

Enrollment

If you choose to enroll for one of our services, we will request certain information from you. Depending on the type of product or service that you request, you may be asked to provide different personal information. For a detailed listing of the type of personal information requested for our various services, please refer to the enrollment page for the particular service.

Statistical Information About Your Visit

When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors come and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the performance of our Web site.

Use of Cookies

A "cookie" is a piece of information that our Web site sends to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. Thumbworks does not use or store cookies to gather information about your use of our website. No cookies are stored on your system permanently. To find more information about cookies, if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer® as your browser, go to the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm?RLD=291 or if you are using Netscape Navigator® as your browser, go to the Netscape Web site at http://home.netscape.com/security/basics/privacy.shtml#cookies.

How We Use and With Whom We Share the Information We Gather

We assure you that the information we gather from you is used by us only as explained below.

Sending You Responses and Updates

We generally respond to any e-mail questions, requests for service information, and other inquiries that we receive. We may also retain this correspondence to improve our products, services, and Web site, and for other disclosed purposes. Frequently we retain contact information so that we can send individuals’ updates or other important information about our services and products. Occasionally third parties on our behalf may send out these updates or other important information. Please be assured that any third party who contacts you in this capacity has executed a confidentiality agreement with us that contains a provision ensuring the privacy and security of any transferred information and limits the third party's use of the shared information to sending updates or providing services on our behalf. In situations where you have supplied your information in connection with a question or request for information about a product or service offered by a Thumbworks business partner, we may also send the information you have supplied to the Thumbworks business partners that offer such products or services. Please be assured that these Thumbworks business partners have agreed to ensure the privacy and security of any transferred information and may only use the shared information to send you information about products or services about which you asked.

Service Providers

We partner with third parties to provide services on our behalf. We provide these third parties only the data necessary in order to provide the service. When a client signs up for digital archiving we provide our partner only with the client's name and PIN number. Our third party service providers are contractually bound to use the data we provide them only for the purposes we stated. They are not allowed to use the data for any other purpose.

If We are Required to Disclose by Law

If we are required by law to disclose certain information to local, state, federal, national or international government or law enforcement authorities, we will do so.

Surveys

From time-to-time we may request information from customers via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this Web site, and improving our customer service and product offerings.

Referrals

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing someone about our site, we ask him or her for the company name, person's name, and email address. Thumbworks will automatically send a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact Thumbworks at privacy@thumbworks.com to request removal of this information from our database.

Your Ability to Opt-Out of Further Notifications

From time-to-time, we notify our subscribers of new products, announcements, upgrades and updates. If you would like to opt-out of being notified, please contact us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Statement or at privacy@thumbworks.com.

Update Personal Information

If you have provided personal information to Thumbworks and you would like to update, correct or delete that information, please contact Thumbworks at privacy@thumbworks.com, or contact us at the address and phone number given at the end of this privacy statement. When the changes are made, you will receive a confirmation from Thumbworks.

Our Security Procedures

We consider the protection of all personally identifiable information we receive from our Web site visitors and subscribers as critical to our corporate mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information. In order to try to minimize this risk, we encrypt all information that you submit in using our services using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. In addition, our servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure locked down facility.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use our customers' personally identifiable information then, we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Statement and also on our home page.
Our mailing address is:
Thumbworks Inc.
Attention: Privacy
238 W. Main St., Suite 101
Tustin, California 92780