Aries Systems Corporation - Privacy Policy
This policy covers the following services and sites operated by Aries Systems Corporation:
- Aries Systems Corporate Site - http://www.ariessys.com
- Knowledge Web literature access - http://www1.kfinder.com
- DocuRights content security - http://www.docurights.com
- Editorial Manager manuscript submission - http://www.editorialmanager.com
As used below, a "business partner" is an individual or organization with whom Aries Systems maintains a relationship that is directly related and necessary to the fulfillment of the transaction that you undertake with one of the Aries' sites.
Please take a few minutes to read this policy so you understand when and why we request certain kinds of information, and what options you have for controlling your personal information.
Aries Systems will make every effort to safeguard any information you may share with us through any of a variety of possible online interactions and transactions. We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our sites unless you choose to provide such information to us.
We do not disclose any personal information to a third party, unless that party is a bona fide business partner of Aries (as described above). We do not sell or communicate your personal information to third parties who are not business partners of Aries Systems.
Requesting Your Personal Information
Certain transactions that you may undertake at an Aries site may require that we request certain personal information from users wishing to take advantage of specific opportunities.
We request your personal information -- which may include such things as email address, name, address, telephone number, etc. -- in exchange for certain activities, including:
- Provision of trial access to our commercial services
- Purchase of materials or services through our sites
- Free services that, by their nature, require your identifying information (e.g., e-mail address for alerting services)
- Product demo downloads
- Provision of manuscript submission services
- Customer service follow-up messages
- Confirmation of e-commerce transactions
- Other services we may add to our sites
Some of our services allow you to purchase use of our databases or other electronic content. For transactions provided by these services, we require personal credit card information and an accurate email address in order to complete an e-commerce transaction.
Use of "Cookies"
- Aries' sites make use of "cookies," small pieces of information that are transferred to your computer to enable correct operation of our services. The use of cookies is an industry standard and occurs at most major websites.
- These cookies in no way identify you as the user. The cookies are used to "remember" the various stages of your interactions with our Web servers during your session. While you can disable cookies in your browser, doing so will likely cause our services to malfunction.
Use of Collected Information
Aries Systems uses the information it gathers for:
- Developing enhancements to its Web sites
- Notification to business partners whose participation is required to complete your transaction (e.g., document delivery)
- Notification to business partners (e.g., publishers) who own content that you acquire through our sites
- Notification to business partners (i.e., publishers or journal offices) that you have submitted an article to be considered for publication
- Internal marketing and promotional purposes
In addition, from time-to-time, we track site traffic by analyzing our Web server logs. We use the log information (for example, length of session, pages viewed, etc.) to help determine overall traffic patterns, to determine user interests and to continue improving the site to better serve our user community.
From time to time, we may directly contact a user regarding their experience in using our sites. We make every effort to limit these contacts to one per user, and also to limit the amount of information we request and the time you would need to spend if you choose to reply. The sole purpose of these requests is to help us better understand our users' experiences and feelings with respect to our services, so that we may improve the services.
Sharing Data with Aries' Business Partners
As noted previously, Aries does not disclose any personal information to third parties who are not business partners of Aries.
We will provide your name, contact information and credit card information only to e-commerce transaction processors and your bank, and only in connection with an e-commerce transaction that you have initiated and asked us to undertake on your behalf.
We may provide your name, contact information and identity of a document that you purchase through our services to the publisher or copyright holder (i.e., the owner) of the document.
We will provide your name, contact information and details of a manuscript that you submit for publication to the publisher or the journal office that you have selected.
Security
Our sites utilize state-of-the-art security technology to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of such information. Nonetheless, we are not responsible for any breach of its security or for the actions of any third parties that may obtain any personal information.
If you make a credit card purchase at one of our sites, we retain your card details on our servers only for the period of time that is required to electronically contact your bank to obtain approval for the transaction. Upon receipt of approval (or denial) of your card details, we retain on our servers only the first 2 digits and the last 4 digits of your card number, sufficient to identify the transaction if you should have further questions regarding the transaction.
Removal of Your Data
You may request that we remove your personal information from our files, by sending an e-mail to support@ariessys.com. We will remove your information from our files, subject to any legal record-keeping requirements to which we may be subject.
Review and Correction
After logging in to one of our services, registered users can at any time access their user information to make changes.
Changes to This Policy
Aries Systems reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by notifying users (through posting an "Update" notice on this Web page and possibly others) of the existence of a new Privacy Policy or any updates. Any significant change in the use of personal information would not be retroactive to include information gathered under a previous policy.
Feedback
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please don't hesitate to let us know at support@ariessys.com.
April 7, 2008
