Privacy Policy

Web Site Privacy Statement for Meld

At MontaVista Software, LLC, we respect your privacy. We are pleased to provide this Privacy Statement to inform you of our practices with respect to how we collect and use personally identifiable information about visitors to our web site. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Statement:

What Information We Collect
How We Use the Information
Whom We Share the Information With
Cookies
Links to Third-Party Websites
Public Forums
Data Security
Modifying Data and Information
Changes to Privacy Statement
How to Contact Us

What Information We Collect
If you register for or enroll in a program or service through our web site, download software updates, make purchases from our online offerings, respond to a request for information, register for our online seminars, or make any other online request of us, you will be voluntarily providing personally identifiable information. The types of personal information collected at these pages may include your name, email, job position, contact and billing information, service request number and such. From time-to-time, we will also request information from members via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information such as user name, company name, email address, telephone number, personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with our products, and contact preferences.

How We Use the Information
Voluntarily provided information is used to send you announcements of new product updates, security alerts, newsletters, research on future product ideas or improvements, and promotional information. MontaVista Software may also contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you or as reasonably necessary to administer or provide customer support for the web site.

Whom We Share the Information With
We do not, and will not, disclose, sell, rent or share any personally identifiable information received as a result of enrollment, registrations or e-commerce transactions on our web site with any third parties.

Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other MontaVista entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the uses described above. Such MontaVista entities and/or business partners are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.

Cookies
We do use "cookies" at times, which are small data files that are written to and stored on your hard drive when you visit a web site. They do not read files on your hard drive.

Like most web sites, we use cookies to personalize a user's experience of our web site and to make it easier for users to complete forms. The cookies we pass to you are anonymous. Our cookies do not track user movement once you leave our web site, except for noting your destination address. They do not reveal your personal identity, they will not follow you throughout your travels on the Web, nor can they capture private data. Rather, these cookies establish a user session and to allow our server to correctly provide site users with the appropriate frames and content.

Links to Third-Party Web Sites
For your convenience, we may provide links on our web site to certain third-party web sites or referrals to certain third parties' products or services, and the connections may or may not be obvious. We are not responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure of data and information by such third parties. We encourage users to please be aware of the third party’s privacy policy and terms and conditions that are in placed.

Public Forums
This site makes discussion threads (i.e. chat rooms, forums, message boards) available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas of Service becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

MontaVista Software is not responsible for content posted by users of the Service on any area of our forums. The opinions and viewpoints expressed by users of the Service do not reflect those of MontaVista Software.

You are solely and fully responsible for the content you post via the aforementioned Services. To preserve the Service’s integrity, MontaVista Software reserves the right to modify or remove any material submitted to or posted on the site generally without prior notice.

Data Security
MontaVista is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Where reasonably practical, MontaVista uses encryption, firewalls and other security technology to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. Only a small number of MontaVista employees who are involved in data management have physical access to the data center. We will endeavor to update our protective devices as encryption technology develops further.

Modifying Data and Information
You have the right, at any time, to review and/or modify any of your personally identifiable information that you provide during registration, or any other voluntarily provided information. You may also choose to opt-out from our active databases of e-mail lists.

Changes to Privacy Statement
Due to changing technological and marketing demands, we must reserve the right to change our policies regarding the privacy of your personally identifiable information in the future. If there are updates to the terms of this Privacy Statement, we will post those changes and update the version in this document, so you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.

How to Contact Us
We value your opinions, and hope that this Privacy Statement helps you to make an informed decision whether to visit our web site and/or to provide us with certain information. If you have any questions, concerns or problems, we encourage you to email to privacy@mvista.com or by mail at:

MontaVista Software, LLC
Attn: Legal Corporate Affairs
2929 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054