Please review our privacy policy below
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for
patent-advisor.com.
The statement does not apply to our practices on other Web sites or offline. This Web site is intended
for and directed to inventors for free usage and a paid directory listing service for patent attorneys
and agents registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Choice/Opt-Out
If we send you an e-mail, it will contain opt-out information to have your name removed from our e-mail list.
You may also opt-out by allowing us to provide your name to third parties for direct marketing purposes
by contacting us by phone or mail. If your listing information changes, you can update it online.
You can also request to remove your information from our database by sending an e-mail to
info@patent-advisor.com so you will not receive future communications or will no longer receive our service.
Please allow up to 90 days for processing.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
The payment procedure uses Paypal which contains the Secure Socket Layer protocol to ensure secure data transmission.
What Do We Collect and Why?
You may browse our site without providing us any information that is identifiable for you.
IP Address
We may use your IP address and other standard log file information to help diagnose problems with our server,
and to administer our Web site. If your IP address and other standard log information are used, they might help
to identify you and to gather broad demographic information in the interest of improving our site and service.
Cookies and Click Trail Information
Our site uses cookies for a number of reasons, such as (a) to recognize you when you return to our site and
(b) to recognize whether a customer came to our site as a result of a promotion on one of our partners’ sites.
Some of these cookies may be placed by our third party service providers to recognize when a user visits this site.
The information collected and shared through this technology is non-personally identifiable.
We may also collect anonymous visitor information about how you utilize our site, such as IP addresses,
browser types (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), referring pages and pages visited. We use this information
(a) to perform anonymous statistical analysis of Web page traffic patterns,
(b) to administer our Web site and servers, and (c) to improve our services.
Registration Form
Registration forms on our site require you to give us your contact information (i.e., name and e-mail address)
and demographic information (i.e., zip code and state). We use this contact information from the registration
form to send you information about our company at your request. Your contact information is also used to
contact you when necessary for additional information or to process or fulfill your request.
Demographic and profile data may also be collected. We use this data to help us improve
this Web site and our product and service offerings.
Sign Up Form
Our site uses a Sign Up form for you to request information and our services.
We collect your contact information (i.e., e-mail address), financial information (Paypal associated e-mail address),
and demographic information (i.e., zip code and state). We use this contact information from the order form
to send you a confirmation e-mail. We also use this information to send you information about our
company and special promotions. Your contact information is also used to get in touch with you when necessary
for additional information to process or fulfill your order. Financial information that is collected is used to bill for services.
Financial information is not retained or stored as part of your customer profile, so you must enter your Paypal
information each year for renewal purposes. Unique identifiers are collected from Web site visitors to verify
your identity and for use as account numbers in our record system. Demographic and profile data is also
collected at our site. We use this data to help us improve our Web site and our product and service offerings.
Information from Other Sources
For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (i.e., providing better service etc.),
we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to other sites. www.patent-advisor.com is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such Web sites.
Revisions to this Statement
Our business changes constantly. This privacy statement will change also, and use of information that
we gather now is subject to the privacy and security statement in effect at the time of collection.
You should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. If, however, we are going to use
users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection,
we will notify users by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
If you have any questions about this privacy and security statement, the practices of this site,
or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us using one of the methods above.
