That's why, when you visit our web sites, we help you maintain control over your personal data. In general, you can visit our web sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Our sites do collect information such as IP address, browser type and operating system to help us better understand our audience, but this information does not personally identify you. Instead, this information is used to help us better understand our overall audience and improve our site. We may ask you to provide certain information about yourself such as name, address, email address, phone number and other personally identifying information when you make a purchase in the Crystal Decisions Store, download a demo, sign up for a seminar, register a product or ask us to contact you.
Participation is completely optional.
If you elect to give us personal information over the Internet, we will take reasonable precautions to ensure the security of your information, including the use of SSL encryption to protect credit card information in the Crystal Decisions Store. We also use cookies, very small text files written to your hard drive, to improve your experience with our site. These files do not contain any personal information about you - they simply point to data on our systems that you may have already provided, such as name, address, email address, etc. This saves you time when accessing areas of our site that require personal information. A cookie can only be read by the server that gave it to you and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.