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Privacy
Statement
We collect personal information from our visitors on a voluntary basis.
Personal information may include name, title, company, address, phone
number, email address and other relevant data. Questions or comments
submitted by visitors may also include personal information. We do not
require personal information to obtain access to most of our site. We do,
however, require it to download product information, order products and take
advantage of certain other features of our site.
We use the information that visitors provide for such purposes as processing
and responding to requests, improving our operations, and communicating with
visitors about our products, services and businesses. Subsidiaries and
external service providers participate in some of these activities, but we
do not sell or rent personal information to unrelated businesses for direct
marketing purposes. Also, as our business evolves we may transfer or acquire
businesses and related assets, and we may transfer information about
customers and site visitors in connection with such transactions
Visitors who complete our registration form have the option of receiving
occasional e-mail updates and surveys in their selected areas of interest.
Those who elect to receive updates and surveys may change this election at
any time by updating their registration information.
Our web server also automatically collects non-personally-identifiable
information such as the domain name of the site providing the visitor with
internet access, but not the visitor's user name. Other examples of
information collected by our server include the Internet Protocol (IP)
address used to connect the visitor's computer to the internet, the
visitor's browser type and version, operating system and platform, the
average time spent on our site, pages viewed, information searched for,
access times and other relevant statistics. We use this information in the
aggregate to measure the use of our site and to administer and improve our
site.
We also use cookies to distinguish repeat visitors from first time visitors
and provide visitors a personalized experience on our site. Cookies are
pieces of information that a web site transfers to the hard drive of a
visitor's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies to allow
visitors to use the site without logging on upon returning, to auto-populate
e-mail forms, to make improvements and to better tailor our site to our
visitors' needs. We also use this information to verify that visitors meet
the criteria required to process their requests. Visitors who complete the
registration form may decline to accept the cookie which allows the site to
recognize them as registered users upon their return, but declining this
cookie does not affect a separate cookie which distinguishes repeat from
first time visitors. Most browsers used by visitors have options that allow
the visitor to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject
cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent, but setting a
browser to reject cookies will limit the range of features available to the
visitor on our site.
To the extent required or permitted by law, we may also collect, use and
disclose personal information in connection with security related or law
enforcement investigations or in the course of cooperating with authorities
or complying with legal requirements.
We take commercially reasonable precautions to keep all information obtained
from our online visitors secure against unauthorized access and use and we
periodically review our security measures.
Our site contains links to other web sites. These sites are not covered by
this privacy statement, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of these other sites.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement and related business
practices at any time by posting updated text on this site.
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