Privacy Policy

Your personal information will always be guarded to the best of our ability, and we get NO ACCESS at any point to your credit card or other billing information. That is collected on behalf of us by widely trusted sources such as PayPal and RegNow of Digital River (the top two in the industry, afaik). We will NEVER intentionally share your email address or any other information with ANYONE.

On portions of our web site we use Google Ads, like many sites do. Click here to see their privacy policy and even OPT OUT of their ad cookies by installing the IBA opt-out browser plug-in.

We use Google Analytics for statistic collection on our web site. You can OPT OUT by simply installing this Google-provided and maintained plug-in on your browser. It is compatible with IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Google Analytics privacy policy is here. This service simply tracks web site statistics so we can know how utilized our server is and how well we are doing at recruiting new users. Your name or other personal information we have is never transmitted to it. Only information inherently sent in a browser request is known by it. It simply collects anonymous visitor data, the same found in any web server log (e.g. 1,000 people visited today, that kind of thing).

We use Twitter, FaceBook, and Google Plus 'Tweet', 'Like', and 'Plus' buttons, respectively. These simply direct to the pertinent Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus site if clicked. They have their own privacy policy, as with all external links from this site (which are easy to detect given our consistency in page formation).

We guard what limited information we do store to the best of our abilities, certainly better than most companies our size, and probably better than most large companies. We have our Forum isolated on a separate server and using a separate database server. Again, NONE of your billing information is stored. We store only your name, email address, address, phone, company, and license information after making a purchase. These are the bare essentials.

We do not sell or disseminate your personal information to anyone. In some cases, regional Bitsum resellers (part of the Bitsum network) may have acquired your email and have their own privacy policies. However, if you ordered through Bitsum.com, then it is only we who have your email address. We send only license, Support acount, or forum related email induced by the user, have no newseletter or other spam type bulk emails. We may some day offer opt-in newsletters, maybe. We likely never will, but that clause allows customers to optionally subscribe (by having to check a box) to a Bitsum newsletter. This is under consideration only because it is a service some may want (e.g. to be notified of progress or updates).

If our privacy policy changes in any substantial way, or we start to send any sort of bulk email, we will, at our option (depending on likely interest), send a single pre-emptive email asking exactly what you would like to be subscribed to, with the default being 'nothing'.

In the shortest words, we are behaving as best a company can when it comes to email and your privacy. If you feel we are not, please email us and express your concern - for it will be addressed if it is a valid privacy or ethical issue!

Cookie Policy

Cookies are optionally used to keep you logged in to the Support area, Forum, and to collect web site statistics through Google Analytics (click name for privacy policy). The statistics collected are anonymous visitor data. For example, what countries are visiting the web site, how many visitors per day, etc... Almost every site on the Internet uses a statistic tracking service of some type, however many do not disclose this fact. Bitsum.com, bitsum.com (forum), and all other Bitsum sites do NOT require cookies to function. Disable cookies in your browser if you wish.

Terms of Use / End User License Agreement

End user license agreements are found within our software prior to installation. It basically boils down to 'use at your own risk'. This is what most EULAs say, except they confuse matters in long paragraphs and clauses. This short paragraph neither replaces nor excludes any clauses found in our software. You agree to hold Bitsum, Jeremy Collake, and any affiliates or partners not liable for any damages, tangible or intangible, resulting from the use or misuse of any software on this site, or linked to from this site. Beta and Alpha versions should always be treated with special care and caution. Software environments are complex, with many different applications and hardware interacting with each other. Whenever you install any application, you must accept the risks inherent with change of such a complex environment.

Credits

Unless otherwise stated, all software, articles, and other content found here was developed by Jeremy Collake. This web site does NOT use a CMS (Content Management System). Instead, it is hand-crafted. Hence, it may not be 'standard' in its appearance. However, we hope it is certainly functional, compatible, easy to use, and easy on the eyes.

PECompact has a number of available compression codecs, only one of which is authored by us - JCALG1. PECompact also utilizes LZMA by Igor Pavlov, and aPLib and FFCE by Joergen Ibsen.

Joergen Ibsen was also instrumental in the development of JCALG1, helping to provide wisdom and ideas from his excellent aPLib compression algorithm. JCALG1 is basically an open-source implementation of aPLib with a few changes and additions (i.e. block verbatim support to better handle pre-compressed data).

Newer site artwork by Jennifer Cripps - Graphic Designer. Her excellent images in the form she submitted (before I hacked on them) are here.

Some older Process Lasso artwork was done by Nicolas Nguyen.

Geolocation by geoPlugin. Screenshot popups and gallery like interface provided by the JQuery Lightbox plugin

Partners

Bitsum has resellers throughout the world to handle localized sales and support. These partners are authorized to resell our software:

• Nettool (Japan)
• Ziqing Chinese-English Genuine Software Store (China)
• Michal Hanebach - (Polish translator)
• Jarmo Karppinen - (Finnish translator)
• Дмитрий Ерохин - (Russian translator)
• Michael König - (German translator)
• Ed Kiefer - (Support/forum assistance)
• 
• And more ...