Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This PortSys Privacy Policy governs the collection and use of personal information that it uses for business and marketing purposes. Please review the privacy policy carefully. By using our website, services, or otherwise providing personal information to us, you agree that we may use your personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

PortSys uses commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your personal information and uses reasonable efforts to obtain the agreement of business partners to take steps to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information that PortSys shares with them. However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% private and secure.

PortSys does not sell or rent personal information to third parties

Personal Information Collection

We may collect personal information from you, such as name, company, email address, and phone number. We gather certain other information automatically as part of standard website practice. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, operating system, the pages viewed on our site, and other information that helps us understand our customers and their interests.

We may receive information about you from other sources, including third parties from whom we have obtained data such as name, title, company, email address, physical mailing address, phone number, and information about the advertising link clicked, information requested, or event registered for, etc. We may combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you. If you believe that your personal information has been provided to us and would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at the contact information below.

How We Use Personal Information Collected

PortSys may use personal information for the purposes of operating our business, providing customers and business partners with information and services and to help us better understand your needs and interests, improving our websites, sending marketing and other communication related to our business, and for other legitimate purposes permitted by applicable law.

We collect personal information such as (but not limited to):

  • Processing your order for a product or services
  • Product demonstrations
  • Proof of concepts
  • Purchases
  • Downloads
  • Payment transactions
  • Registering for information requests such as reports, white papers, or data sheets
  • Registering for an online program, event, seminars, promotions or sweepstakes
  • Participating in events, surveys, questionnaires, or evaluations
  • Providing you with a newsletter subscription
  • Sending marketing communications
  • Registering as a partner
  • Creating an account
  • Enabling the use of certain features of our products and services
  • Downloading and registering mobile applications
  • Personalizing websites, newsletters and other communications
  • Providing customer support
  • Managing a job application
  • Protecting the security of our website and business

We and any third parties we engage may combine the information we collect from you over time and across our websites and solutions with information obtained from other sources. This helps us improve its overall accuracy and completeness of our information and helps us better tailor our interactions with you.

If you choose to provide us with a third party’s personal information (such as name, email, and phone number), you represent that you have the third party’s permission to do so.

Your Consent

By providing us with your personal information and using our website, you consent to our processing your personal data and sensitive personal data for the above purposes. You also consent to our transferring your information to countries or jurisdictions which do not provide the same level of data protection as the EU, if necessary, for the above purposes.

Third Parties We May Share Personal Information With

On a global basis, PortSys may work with business partners to provide PortSys products, localized services and support. PortSys may share limited personal information with these PortSys business partners who resell PortSys products so they may transact business.

In addition, PortSys may disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of PortSys; or, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of PortSys website, products, or the public.

PortSys does not rent or sell personal information to anyone.

Consent to Transfer, Processing and Storage of Personal Information

PortSys is a global organization and as such, PortSys may transfer your personal information to the United States, to any PortSys subsidiary worldwide, or to third parties acting on its behalf, for the purposes of processing or storage of the personal information pursuant to this policy. By providing any personal information to us, you consent to the transfer, processing, access, and storage of such information outside of your country of residence, where data protection standards may be different.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. We will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our business requirements, legal obligations, resolve disputes, protect our assets, and enforce our agreements.

Use of Cookies and Other Web Technologies

Like many websites, PortSys uses automatic data collection tools, such as cookies, embedded web links, and web beacons. These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to our website. Examples include your browser type and the IP address of the website from which you arrived at our website. They may also collect information about:

  • Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
  • Clickstream behavior. This includes the pages you view and the links you click. This helps us to customize the website experience and recognize you when you return.

Our website may include code that provides specific functionality that enhances the customer experience, otherwise known as widgets. This code can be interactive or transparent to users and this may be from third party companies.

Examples can include, but are not limited to, surveys, news feeds, stock quotes or marketing analysis software. Widgets may also set cookies to enable them to function properly. Information collected by a widget is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created the widget.

Many web browsers may give you the ability to enable a “do not track” feature that sends signals to the websites you visit, indicating that you do not want your online activities tracked. This is different from blocking or deleting cookies, as browsers with a “do not track” feature enabled may still accept cookies.

Google Analytics information 

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP-address that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

Removal of Your Information

If you would like to discontinue receiving this information, you may update your email preferences by using the “Unsubscribe” link found in each promotional email we send to you or by sending us a message through email, privacy@portsys.com, or by mail to: PortSys, Inc., Attn: Privacy, 201 Boston Post Road West, Suite 205, Marlborough, MA USA 01752.

Please be sure to include your name, email address, and specific, relevant information about the material you no longer wish to receive.

These choices do not apply to service notifications or other required communications that are considered part of certain services, which you may receive periodically unless you stop using or cancel the service in accordance with its terms and conditions.

Change In This Privacy Statement

PortSys reserves the right to modify this privacy statement as needed; for example, to comply with changes in laws, regulations, PortSys practices and procedures, or requirements imposed by data protection authorities.

This statement and the policies referred herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights.