Peer Belt Privacy Policy

We at Peer Belt Inc, value our customers and respect their privacy.

The policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Peer Belt's products and services (collectively named Services). Peer Belt will notify you of material changes to this policy by posting the revision on the Peer Belt's site. You will always have the option that lets you use and benefit from our Services in a way that does not send any personal information to Peer Belt or to discontinue using the Services.

This Privacy Policy enlists the personal information that we may collect from you, the purposes for which we collect it, how we use it and what and when we may share with third parties.

By using Peer Belt's Services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this policy.

What information does Peer Belt receive when Peer Belt is used?

You do not need to provide any personally identifying information in order to download and use Peer Belt (once the product is launched to the public). When you download Peer Belt, Peer Belt receives only standard information including your IP address and one or more cookies. You may configure your browser to not send cookies to Peer Belt or other sites. Please consult your browser's documentation for details.

Some Peer Belt features send limited, anonymous (with regards to personally identifying information other than IP and/or cookies) information to Peer Belt:

• When a query is submitted to a major search engine, that Peer Belt integrates with, the query phrase typed is sent to Peer Belt, so the Service can automatically extract peer recommended documents you might be looking for. You can always disable this feature as described here.
• When content is found valuable, according to Peer Belt's internal ranking, if you receive recommendations from peers, it is expected you contribute your top hits back to the community. In this case a document url, the associated with it search phrase, and Peer Belt's locally computed rank may be sent to the Peer Belt's servers at Peer Belt's discretion. You should expect only a small portion of the urls visited during normal Internet browsing valued high enough to be shared with the other peers. While doing so, no personally identifying information other than IP and/or cookie is being sent to Peer Belt servers. You can always disable this feature as described here. However, to keep peers equal, we require consuming other's recommendations to be balanced by your own contributions, so disabling the feature will effectively suppress receiving peer recommendations.
• Your copy of Peer Belt, includes a randomly-generated number, which may be sent to peers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network or to Peer Belt during a software update. The number is randomly generated on your machine during installation. Hence, there is no direct link between product download and actual product use. The random number plays the role of an IP address in a P2P network. Having the random number posted during software update, helps Peer Belt keep track of the different software versions currently installed on the client machines. This number does not reveal any personally identifying information.

Per Belt is intended for use by adults. We do not knowingly collect or render any information from and to children under the age of 13. Those under age 13 should not use Peer Belt or provide Peer Belt Services with any information.

What information is stored on my computer while Peer Belt is used?

Peer Belt stores useful browsing history information on your own computer. The information complements the history maintained by your browser. The information recorded include:

• Basic browsing history information: the URLs of the documents visited.
• A searchable index of most documents you visit (except secure documents over "https", locally hosted items, and near empty documents).
• User-document interaction statistics. Statistics are kept temporary and discarded after document rank assessment.
• Reduced size screenshots of many recently visited documents (secure documents over "https", locally hosted, and near empty items excluded).

You can always delete all or portion of the information stored locally, as described here.

For what purpose does Peer Belt collect information?

Information received by Peer Belt when you use Peer Belt is processed in order to operate and to improve Peer Belt products and services. Information is stored on your machine in order to improve the performance of the Service, keep you in control of your own browsing history information, and provide you with rich features like visual history navigation for instance.

We reserve the right to make full use of all information acquired through the Peer Belt Services that is not in personally identifiable form.

How long is my personal information retained?

Peer Belt does not receive personally identifying information other than IP address and/or cookie if enabled in the browser. Portion of this information may be retained for short period of time in order to operate the services. Information may be retained satisfying regulatory demands, for benchmarking, and used in simulations that aim to improve the Peer Belt product and Peer Belt's Service.

The anonymous (revealing no personal information) query phrases, associated document URLs and Peer Belt rank, are needed for the Service operation and are to be held indefinitely.

How does Peer Belt safeguard my personal information?

We do not collect personally identifying information other than IP address and/or cookie, unless vital for the Service itself. It is important to acknowledge that the transmissions over Internet are not 100% secure and error free. As result, we do not, and cannot, guarantee the security, accuracy, or completeness of the information exchanged.

Does Peer Belt disclose my personal information to third parties?

We do not collect personally identifying information other than IP address and/or cookie, unless vital for the Service itself. In the rare case we do have in possession personal information, the following applies:

• We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
• We may disclose personal information only to third parties that provide services to support our activities, including third parties that help us to complete transactions and that provide us with web-hosting services. These third parties are contractually prohibited from disclosing personal Information we provide them for any purpose other than to support our business activities, and may only use and disclose this personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
• We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law, in response to legal process and law enforcement requests, and as necessary to protect the property, interests and rights of Peer Belt Inc.
• We may also disclose personal information to third parties in connection with the assignment, sale, or other transfer of part or all of our business. In such cases, we will require by contract that such entities agree to abide by the terms and restrictions in this Privacy Policy.

Can Peer Belt amend this Privacy Policy?

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy in our sole discretion. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Policy and any changes thereto.

Where can I get more information?

For more information about our privacy practices, or in case of questions, please contact us at any time or write to:

Privacy
Peer Belt Inc
8 1/2 Davis Street Unit B
Harrison, NJ 07029 (USA)

Last modified Jan 21st, 2012 (company address change)