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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 order products.
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. 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. Visitors who complete our
registration form have the option of receiving occasional
email 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 email 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. We reserve the right to modify this
privacy statement and related business practices at any time
by posting updated text on this site. LAST UPDATED: August
01, 2007.
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