Privacy Policy

 

Last updated: March 17, 2022

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy..

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

  • Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

  • Application means the software program provided by the Company downloaded by You on any electronic device, named PDF OwnerGuard License Manager

  • Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Armjisoft DRM Systems, 15 Cliff Street, New York, NY 10038, United States.

  • Country refers to: New York, United States

  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  • Service refers to the Application.

  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

  • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

  • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

  • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
  • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

  • By email: contact@armjisoft.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1: Start

  • This wizard is a step by step guide on using OwnerGuard Protection, Licensing and Distribution features.

  • In each step, you can see a complete video demonstration.

 

Step 2: Create Projects

  • Before you can protect your pdf documents, you must define projects.

  • Project names are used to group DRM protected pdf documents.

  • DRM Protected files in the same project, are protected with the same method and they can be accessed using the same license.

  • Users must have separate licenses to access DRM Protected Files in each project .

 

Step 3: Protect Your PDF Documents

  • Required Encryption Key for protection is generated using Your Computer Signatures and Project Name.

  • Your pdf documents are fully encrypted and nothing else will be stored in drm protected pdf documents like containers, headers or ...

  • DRM Protected pdf documents and source documents are exactly the same size.

  • Different users may have different rights accessing the same protected file based on their licenses.

 

Step 4: Distribute Protected PDF Documents

DRM Protected PDF documents can be distributed/shared by using:

  • Network Shared Storage or File Servers

  • Email Attachments

  • Website Downloads

  • Data storage devices (HDD, USB Disks, CDs, DVDs, ...)

  • P2P File Sharing Systems

 

Step 5: User License Manager

License Manager is the user-side version of OwnerGuard DRM Systems. In order to Minimize users DRM hassles, OwnerGuard provides tiny DRM Manager for users in order to add owners generated licenses and access drm protected pdf documents.

  • Users need to run License Manager just for adding new Licenses.

  • After Adding license codes, users are able to access the drm protected pdf documents with predefined limitations.

  • Using protected pdf documents are just like normal pdf documents.

 

Step 6: Create Licenses For Users

As an owner, you can give licenses to other users to access your drm protected pdf drm documents or also be a reseller of your pdf documents. Protected pdf documents are the same for all users. Limitations are defined in each license, so it makes different user privileges.

  • You can define any limitation for your licenses including Working Time, Expiration Date, Printing, Save.

  • You can generate Computer-Dependent or USB-Dependent licenses to lock your protected files to specific Computer or USB Drive.

  • Any new outputs or modified files from your protected files will be also protected (encrypted) automatically just like the initial protected file.

 

Step 6-1: Manual Licensing

In this method, Owner must generate licenses for each user manually. This method is suitable for a limited number of users.

  • Manual licensing is available in Advanced Editions.

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Step 6-2: Batch Licensing

In this method, Owner can generate and send required licenses for all users automatically with just a single click. This method is suitable for a large number of users.

  • Batch licensing is available in Enterprise Editions.

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Step 6-3: Automatic Licensing

In this method, License generation and user limitation/privileges management can be completely automated using license server or any other custom build applications.

  • Automatic licensing is available in Enterprise Server packages.

  • You can integrate your current systems with OwnerGuard Licensing/Protection features using OwnerGuard APIs.

 

Step 7 : Using Licenses

Before accessing drm protected pdf documents, users need to get appropriate licenses from the owner(s) and add them in their system using License Manager.

  • Users need to run License Manager just for adding new Licenses.

  • After adding the license, users will be able to access the drm protected pdf documents with predefined limitations.

  • After adding the license, using protected pdf files are just like normal pdf documents with all features of the Adobe Reader and pdf file format preserved.

 

Step 7-1: License Files

Owners are able to store their licenses in License files, so that users can add multiple licenses with a single click.

  • Single License file may contain multiple licenses from different projects and different owners.

  • User will add License files with just a single click.

 

Step 7-2: License Codes

Owners can generate and distribute their licenses in the form of License Codes.

  • License codes are easy to generate and distribute in web based systems.

  • License codes can be transferred using any communication system (phone, paper, fax, mail or ...)

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Step 8: Using DRM Protected PDF Documents

After adding the required licenses, using protected files are just like normal files. Users do not need to run any additional application to access protected files.