VERTICAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PRIVACY STATEMENT

Vertical takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how Vertical treats personal information that Vertical collects and receives, including information related to past use of Vertical products and services. Personal information is defined as data about you or your company that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Vertical does not own or control, or to people that Vertical does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General Vertical may collect personal or company information when you activate licenses with Vertical, when you contact Vertical employees, or when a reseller contacts Vertical on your behalf.

Vertical collects information about your transactions and interactions with us including information about your use of products and services that we offer.

Vertical uses information for the following general purposes: to customize advertisement sent from us, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, and conduct research.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Vertical does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you or your company with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if Vertical is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Vertical will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Certain communications from Vertical, such as service announcements, and administrative messages will be sent to you.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

In certain areas Vertical uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions such as credit card numbers.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Vertical may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your registration of an Vertical product or to postal address

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please send email to: webmaster@vertical.com