Privacy on My.Opera.com

Opera Software strictly protects the security of your personal information within the confines of the My Opera domain, and honors your choices for its intended use. We carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. All My Opera users should also handle their and other person’s personal information with care. We protect your data from disclosure, with exception only in matters where designated by law or court order.

Information Collected and Shared

IP Addresses

Opera Software collects visitors' IP addresses to help diagnose problems with servers, to administer Web sites, and for statistical purposes (aggregated). IP addresses will not be shared to other than Opera Software’s partner for handling statistical analyses (see further information below under “Partners”) or used for any purposes other than these.

Cookies

Cookies are used when logging in to My.Opera.com

Voluntary Information Sources

My Opera supports functions that require the submission of relatively personal information given the user's choice of participation. These submissions are gathered by means of forms, surveys, contests, forums, subscribing or unsubscribing mailings and correcting or updating personal information and are only used for their presented purpose. Forms which require financial information to process purchases for products or services are also protected.

Links to Other Sites

My.Opera.com contain links to other sites. Opera Software is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Child Protection

Opera Software provides interactive environments on the Internet to enable members to express themselves and share their ideas and interests by creating and participating in discussion-based virtual communities. Opera.com, Opera.no, and OperaSoftware.com make no guarantees that children can not enter these sites and present both online and offline contact information without parental consent or notification. Further, there is no guarantee that children will not post such information in a public forum. Therefore, we encourage children to include their parents in the registration process, and we encourage parents to get familiar with relevant privacy and data security laws and regulations and to read this privacy statement before allowing their children on line.

Choice/Opt-Out

My.Opera.com provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from Opera Software and its partners at the point where information is requested about the visitor. Opera Software gives users the following options for removing their information from our database in order to not receive future communications:

Visitors can send e-mail to list-admin@opera.com

Visitors can send mail to the following postal address:

Opera Software ASA
Waldemar Thranesgt. 98
N-0175 OSLO
Norway

Visitors can call the following telephone number: +47 24 16 40 00

Correction, Updating or Deletion of Personal Information

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

To change your My Opera membership, login to your account and click the Account link at the top of the page.

Furthermore, users have the following options for changing , modifying and requesting deletion of information previously provided:

• Registered users can use this form

• All users can send mail to the following postal address:

  Opera Software ASA
  Waldemar Thranesgt. 98
  N-0175 OSLO
  Norway

• Visitors can call the following telephone number: +47 24 16 40 00

Privacy of customer data

If a customer places a request for customer service, the information that may be collected is: e-mail address, name, phone number, correspondence records, and technical information such as system hardware, operating system, and the version of Opera being used. This information is voluntarily given by the customer, and is used by Opera Software only for the purpose of assisting the customer with his or her problems. This information is not used for any other purpose. Information collected by our customer service department is not shared nor it is sold to other parties. We do not sell or share this information with our advertising partners or advertising agencies.

Questions?

Please use our contact form if you got questions about this privacy statement, privacy issues regarding Opera Software and our products, or privacy on our Web sites.

Please see www.opera.com/privacy for Opera Software’s general privacy policies.