Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P. Website Privacy Policy

Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P. ("Spectrum," "we," "us" or "our") values your privacy rights. Please take a moment to review the questions and answers listed below, which describe our privacy practices for this website. By visiting this website, you consent to these practices.

What Information do we Collect?

Spectrum may collect both personally identifiable information ("PII") about you and non-personal information about your visit when you access our website. The PII we collect is limited to information you submit to us. For example, we may collect your e-mail address or other information you provide when you contact us through our website. We may also collect names or other types of PII from our limited partners ("LPs") to help verify that they are authorized to access the pages of our website dedicated to LPs.

How is Your Information Used?

Spectrum considers the PII contained in our business records to be confidential. We will not sell, rent, or share your PII. If you submit your e-mail address or other PII to us via our website while requesting information or contacting someone at Spectrum, we will use this information only to the extent necessary to respond to your request(s).

We use the non-personal information collected about site visits, including the pages you view, information you search for, and the average time spent on our websites, in the aggregate to better understand our audience and increase the functionality and user-friendliness of our site. Aggregate information is anonymous.

To the extent permitted by law, any information collected over our website or concerning its use (personal and non-personal) may be disclosed to government authorities or third parties pursuant to a legal request, subpoena, or other legal process.

What About Cookies and Web Beacons?

Spectrum and certain partners working on behalf of Spectrum may use technologies such as cookies and web beacons to learn about your visit. A cookie is a piece of information that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie allows Spectrum to determine that a visit has occurred within our site, as well as which pages were viewed. Cookies are not used to identify you and will not collect personal information. You can decide if and how your computer will accept cookies by configuring your preferences option within your web browser. If you choose to decline cookies, however, some of the functionality of this website may be impaired. Web beacons, also known as clear gifs and web bugs, allow us to recognize a cookie on your computer when you view a web page or e-mail. These electronic images help us measure the effectiveness of our website by, for example, counting the number of individuals who visit us online.

How Do We Protect Personally Identifiable Information Collected on this Site?

We take reasonable precautions to protect the PII in our possession from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. However, Spectrum does not warrant or represent that its level of security meets or exceeds any particular standard. You should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever 100% secure or error-free.

What About Changes to This Privacy Policy?

Spectrum reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update this policy at any time and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates. We will notify you of material changes to this privacy policy by posting the revised policy with the date it was revised on this page. Your continued use of our website constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are protecting the PII we collect.

Effective: October 2007