This policy will let you know:

1. What information is collected from you;
2. What cookies are and how they are used;
3. How your information is used;
4. Who is collecting your information;
5. With whom your information may be shared;
6. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;

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2020software.com collects information from a variety of web pages within our network of accounting and business software related websites. Most importantly we collect your contact information so that we can send you demonstrations and test-drives for accounting and business software. In addition, we will request information about your company or your client's company. This information is used to help us decide which software may be suitable for your purposes.

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, 2020software.com uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on 2020software.com where you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies.

Generally, we use cookies to:

(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services. 2020software.com also uses cookies to store your zip code for other services, such as Yellow Pages.

(2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing 2020software.com is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

(3) Assist merchants in 2020software.com Stores to track visits to and business at their stores, and to process the items in your shopping basket. This information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each merchant's store.

(4) Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a 2020software.com-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings.

(5) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of 2020software.com's network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on 2020software.com a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.

Advertising networks that serve ads onto 2020software.com may also use their own cookies.

2020software.com also collects IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. In addition, 2020software.com Mail includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message headers.

2020software.com's primary goal in collecting information is to provide you, the user, with accounting and business software information. This information is available free of charge and no compensation is expected. We do offer free demos and brochures for multiple accounting and business software systems. In this case your user information is shared with developers and/or resellers of accounting and business software systems. This in formation is forwarded to the developer so that you can receive the requested information.

Another goal of 2020software.com is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our network of sites. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, 2020software.com is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you.

When you are on a 2020software.com site and are asked for information, you are providing that information to 2020software.com alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. An exception is the 2020software.com Business Mall which list merchants for various business services and products. 2020software.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their store, and their privacy policies, return to that store's home page and click on their Information link.

If you are requesting demos or brochures we will share that information with the developer and/or reseller of that software. For example, some 2020software.com services, like 2020software.com AccountingDemos.com, are offered in conjunction with a partner company. This information is shared with the partner company so that they may provide you with the accounting software demo and brochures.

When software or demos are ordered through a 2020software.com website your mailing information may be shared with our forms division so that you can receive a business forms catalog. This catalog will be sent once and no phone calls will be made to solicit forms purchasing.

2020software.com Stores & Shops: If you make a purchase from a store hosted by 2020software.com Store, or a merchant in 2020software.com Shopping, the information obtained during your visit to those stores, and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchants. This is to enable transactions to take place.

As a global company 2020software.com has international sites and users all over the world. When you give 2020software.com personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Whenever 2020software.com handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, 2020software.com takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, 2020software.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

If you have a question that was not addressed in this privacy policy you may contact us at privacypolicy@2020software.com or at the following:

Also see...

• Electronic Frontier Foundation - a civil liberties organization working to protect your rights online.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
• Privacy Issues Page - from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
• The EPIC Cookies Page - definitions, links, and news.
• How to Protect Your Privacy - information from the Federal Trade Commission for consumers.
• Kidz Privacy - information from the Federal Trade Commission about kids' privacy and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.