Thank you for visiting one of the Convera Corporation's websites (“Convera Websites”). The protection of privacy is important to Convera Corporation, its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Convera"). To better protect privacy, Convera provides this notice explaining Convera's online information practices and the choices a User can make about the way information is collected and used at this site.

What information do the Convera Websites collect?

The primary purpose of the Convera Websites is to provide Convera's customers, prospective customers, partners, stockholders, the investment community and the public ("Users") information about Convera. From time to time, Convera may invite Users to subscribe to an email service, order products, enter contests, and vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, among other things. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about User interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. The Convera Websites also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when a User visits certain pages on the Convera Websites, such as the type of browser being utilized by User (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the User’s operating system (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS), and the domain name of a User's Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

How do the Convera Websites use the information?

The Convera Websites may use the information that User provides to fulfill the User's requests for Convera's products, programs, and services, to respond to the User's inquiries about Convera's software products and services, and to offer the User other products, programs or services that Convera believes may be of interest to the User. Convera sometimes uses this information to communicate with the User, such as to notify the User when the User has won one of Convera's contests, to fulfill a request by a User to receive information by email, or to contact a User about Convera's products and services. The Convera Websites sometimes use non-personally identifiable information collected by the Convera Websites to improve the design and content of the Convera Websites and to enable us to personalize a User's Internet experience. The Convera Websites also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage. Under certain circumstances, Convera may disclose personally identifiable information to third parties. Convera may disclose personally identifiable information, for example, in response to legal process in response to a court order or a subpoena. Convera also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request. Agents and contractors of Convera who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Convera. Although Convera takes appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, the Convera Websites cannot assure User that personally identifiable information that the Convera Websites collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. From time to time the Convera Websites may disclose personally identifiable information to companies whose practices are not covered by this privacy notice that want to market products or services to a User. If the Convera Websites share personally identifiable information to such a third party, Convera will provide User with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses. The Convera Websites may on occasion combine information that the Convera Websites receive online with outside records to enhance Convera's ability to market to User those products or services that may be of interest to User. If User prefers to not receive marketing information from this site, please follow the Opt-Out Procedures set forth below. Finally, Convera will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing Users with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors

The Convera Websites may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than Convera's. Visitors should consult those other sites’ privacy policies because Convera has no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. The Convera Websites may sometimes offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. Convera has no control over these third parties’ use of this information.

Cookies

To enhance a User’s experience on Convera’s sites, the Convera Websites may employ “cookies.” Cookies are text files that the Convera Websites store on the User’s computer in order to communicate to the User’s browser the User’s preferences when on the Convera Websites. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us User e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless User chooses to provide this information to us by, for example, registering for a promotion on one of the Convera Websites. Once a User chooses to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. Convera primarily uses cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content of the Convera Websites. For example, Convera may use cookies to personalize a User’s experience at the Convera Websites or save the User’s password for access to password-protected areas. The Convera Websites also may use cookies to offer the User Convera products, promotions, or services.

Security

The Convera Websites do have security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under Convera's control, and Convera takes reasonable efforts to ensure the security of information on Convera’s systems. Any time the Convera Websites ask for a credit card number, the Convera Websites transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. Furthermore, the Convera Websites use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure. As a result, while the Convera Websites strive to protect User personal information, Convera cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information User transmits to or from Convera, and Users do so at their own risk.

Children

The Convera Websites are general audience sites, not intended for, children under thirteen (13) years of age. Convera does not direct any of its content to children, and will not accept the submission of any personal information from a child under thirteen (13) years of age.

Opt-Out Procedures

Users have the following options for removing their information from Convera's database, and thus prevent the receipt of future communications from Convera. (Please note: Convera is not responsible for removing information from third-party lists or entities with which a User has previously authorized us to share its User information.) 1. You can send email to: info@convera.com 2. You can send mail to the following postal address: Convera Corporation 1921 Gallows Road, Suite 200 Vienna, Virginia 22182 3. You can call the following telephone number: (703) 761-3700

Correct/Update

Convera gives a User the following options for informing us of changes to information a User has previously provided: 1. Email to: info@convera.com 2. Send mail to the following postal address: Convera Corporation 1921 Gallows Road, Suite 200 Vienna, Virginia 22182 3. Call the following telephone number: (703) 761-3700

Contacting Convera

If Users have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or other matters relating to the Convera Websites, please feel free to contact: info@convera.com. Convera Corporation 1921 Gallows Road, Suite 200 Vienna, Virginia 22182 Any of the policies or procedures above may be changed at any time without prior notice. Although this Privacy Policy is not a binding contract and does not create any legal rights, it does serve as an expression of Convera’s commitment to protecting private personal information.