Privacy Policy

SoftLucent.com, is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

Information Collection and Use

Registration - A user must register in order to utilize the online test, discussion forum and advanced test service. During registration, a user is required to provide certain information, such as name, e-mail address, password and gender.

Passive Collection of Information - In addition to the information that you actively provide to SoftLucent by methods such as completing the registration form, SoftLucent collects information about how you interact with our site. SoftLucent collects passive information for purposes such as testing and improving a user's experience at the site and the compilation of broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties such as advertisers and content partners. The types of passive information collected by this site include, without limitation, your IP address, which type of browser you are using, where you go on our site, and how long you stay on any part of our site. Passive information does not identify you to SoftLucent by name, and SoftLucent does not link your IP address to your personally identifiable information.

Refer a Friend - You can choose to let a friend know about SoftLucent through our Refer a Friend program. If you choose to use the Refer a Friend program, we will ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address and SoftLucent will send your friend an e-mail inviting him or her to visit SoftLucent to learn more about our services. SoftLucent does not store your friend's contact information.

Optional Information - At various other points during your visit to SoftLucent, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. For example, you may indicate that you wish to participate in a partner company sponsored contest. At this point your information would become the property of both SoftLucent and the partner co-sponsoring the contest. In instances such as this, SoftLucent is not responsible for the information that the partner company receives. Participation in surveys or contests or the use of other services that require the input of additional information is completely voluntary on your part, and you have the choice about whether to disclose the information necessary to use these features of our site.

Use of Information :

SoftLucent tries to recognize you using various methods, including having you log in with your e-mail address and your password. Once SoftLucent recognizes you, pages, advertisements and other content may be customized for you so that you can see what interests you the most. In addition, as described above, SoftLucent utilizes passive information to learn more about how you interact with our site. This passive information may be combined with your other information for purposes such as testing and improving your experience at our site and the compilation of broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties such as advertisers and content partners. This aggregate passive information does not contain any personal information that can identify any individual user.

Contacting You by E-Mail - SoftLucent may use your contact information periodically in order to send you e-mail regarding updates at the SoftLucent site. The frequency of these messages will vary depending upon your profile. In addition, we may send you free informational newsletters or notices relating to topics that may be of special interest to you. Finally, if you specifically provide SoftLucent with permission at the time of registration, you may also receive commercial e-mails. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to opt-out of receiving many of the newsletters and/or commercial e-mails whenever SoftLucent sends such messages. However certain communications from SoftLucent such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Weekly Newsletter are considered part of SoftLucent membership and you may not opt out of receiving them. E-mail messages from third parties are not governed by the opt-out provisions of this Privacy Policy, but all such third parties are strongly encouraged to include opt-out procedures in their messages to you.

Sharing of Information :

SoftLucent does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with SoftLucent under partnership agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help SoftLucent communicate with you about offers from SoftLucent and our marketing partners.

- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Your Ability to Edit Your Account Information and Preferences

- We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.

- Your SoftLucent account Information is password-protected.

Other Provisions :

Acceptance of Terms / Changes to Privacy Policy -- Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy. SoftLucent reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time.

We have contracted with ValueClick to monitor certain pages of our website for the purpose of reporting website traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our website. Where authorized by us, ValueClick may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about our website visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to any party other than the Advertiser. For more information about how the information is collected and used by ValueClick, please see ValueClick's privacy policy at http://media.valueclick.com/privacy_consumer.shtml.

General Information Disclosure :

We do not disclose information about your individual visits to SoftLucent.com, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe disclosure is required under applicable law. But, we may record and share aggregated information with our partners. Also, if you input your information on a co-branded registration page or site, then your information becomes the property of both SoftLucent.com and the partner co-sponsoring the pages or site. In that instance, SoftLucent.com is not responsible for the information that the partner receives.

Disclaimer of Warrnties and Limitaion of Liability:

This site is provided by SoftLucent.com on an "as is" and "as available" basis. SoftLucent makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of this site or the information, content, materials, or products included on this site. You expressly agree that your use of this site is at your sole risk.

To the full extent permissible by applicable law, SoftLucent disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. SoftLucent does not warrant that this site, its servers, or e-mail sent from SoftLucent are free of viruses or other harmful components. SoftLucent will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages.

As to extraneous contents: SoftLucent hereby alerts and warns its members of the possibility of unauthorized posting of contents by any person including members and unauthorized users and advises discretion in access since such content, information or representation may not be suitable to you including being offensive. SoftLucent will not in any way be responsible for such content, information or representations. SoftLucent is also not responsible for alterations, modifications, deletion, reproduction, sale, transmission or any such misuse of data and content in the public domain by any user.

Feedback :

SoftLucent has an area on the site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of SoftLucent. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the site.