Privacy Policy
Welcome to mIRC. We want you to know that we respect your privacy and
value your trust. We have written this privacy policy to let you
know about the personal information, if any, that we collect about you
when you use the mIRC website or the mIRC software, and what we do with
that information.
What information do we collect?
Use of cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data that your browser stores on your
computer on behalf of the website that you are visiting. This allows
a website to remember details about your visit, such as your preferences
or the pages you have visited, and to provide useful features based on
those details. The mIRC website uses cookies in a number of places, such
as on the Registration page while processing your order or in the
Discussion Forums while you are browsing or creating posts. If adverts
are being displayed on the website, they may also use cookies for similar
reasons.
Log Files and IP Addresses
As with all websites, visits to the mIRC website are logged by IP
address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages,
platform type, date/time stamp, and the number of pages visited. We do
not share this information with any other organizations. We may
occasionally use it ourselves to monitor the status of the website
however. IP addresses are not linked to any personally identifiable
information although visitors should be aware that both static and
dynamic IP addresses can be mapped back to your Internet Service
Provider.
Names and Email addresses
We collect your email address when you subscribe to the mIRC mailing
list and when you create an account on the mIRC Discussion Forums. We
also collect your name and email address when you register mIRC.
In the case of the mailing list, your email address is used solely for
the purpose of emailing you when a new version of mIRC is released.
We honour all unsubscribe requests and you can remove yourself from
the mailing list at any time through the unsubscribe link on the
Mailing List page.
In the case of the Discussion Forums, your email address is used solely for
the purpose of allowing you to use your Discussion Forums account and is
not used for any other purpose.
In the case of when you register mIRC, your name and email address
are used to provide you with your mIRC registration information after
you have registered mIRC and for no other purpose.
In all of the above cases, we will not sell, share, or rent this
information to any other organizations.
Securing your information
We take every reasonable precaution to protect any information that
we collect from you from unauthorized access, misuse, or loss. Although
we cannot absolutely guarantee that this won't happen, we have strict
policies in place to prevent it.
Links to other sites
This website and the mIRC software contain links to other sites and IP
Addresses. Please be aware that mIRC is not responsible for the privacy
practices of other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to the
information collected by mIRC.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may occasionally need to update our privacy policy and if we do we
will post any changes to the policy on our website so that you are
always aware of how we use your information. If at any time we find
that we need to use information in a manner different from the
policy stated at the time the information was collected, we will notify
users by email and/or by posting a notice on our website.
Questions
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy
please contact us.
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