THE JADETOWER CORPORATION (“JadeTowerâ€) operates several websites including www.jadetower.com, www.jadetower.hk, www.jadetower.org, indie-arcade.com, cubiclemuses.com. It is JadeTower’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Like most website operators, JadeTower collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. JadeTower’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how JadeTower’s visitors use its website. From time to time, JadeTower may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
JadeTower also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. JadeTower does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Certain visitors to JadeTower’s websites choose to interact with JadeTower in ways that require JadeTower to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that JadeTower gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who submit comments at Cubicle Muses to provide name and email information. Those who engage in transactions with JadeTower – by submitting comments, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, JadeTower collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with JadeTower. JadeTower does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
JadeTower may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, JadeTower may monitor the most popular parts of the cubiclemuses.com site, and monitor which games are played on indie-arcade.com. JadeTower may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, JadeTower does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
JadeTower discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on JadeTower’s behalf or to provide services available at JadeTower’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using JadeTower’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. JadeTower will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, JadeTower discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when JadeTower believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of JadeTower, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a JadeTower website and have supplied your email address, JadeTower may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with JadeTower and our products. We primarily use our website and weblogs (such as Cubicle Muses) to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. JadeTower takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. JadeTower uses cookies to help JadeTower identify and track visitors, their usage of JadeTower website, and their website access preferences. JadeTower visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using JadeTower’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of JadeTower’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, JadeTower may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in JadeTower’s sole discretion. JadeTower encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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William and Aaron co-founded JadeTower in 2006.
J Aaron Farr is an entrepreneur and open source evangelist. He
currently serves as a board member of the Apache Software Foundation,
having contributed to the open source Apache Avalon, Excalibur,
Incubator, and Labs projects. His prior professional experience
includes developing software for Sony Electronics and Siemens Medical
Systems.
William Taysom is Chief Scientist and co-founder of JadeTower. He's
just come to Hong Kong from Florida where he was a researcher for the
Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. Winner of the 2007
outstanding paper award from the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence, his primary interests are programming
languages and development environments. He has a Masters of Logic and
Computation from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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