CalibrationCerts.com Privacy Statement
CalibrationCerts.com, Inc. has created this Privacy Statement in order to
demonstrate our company's commitment to privacy. Your right to privacy and
data security is a primary concern.
CalibrationCerts.com gathers information about you from data that you
provide through such things as optional or mandatory registration, online
surveys, and contests. The types of personal information collected can
include name, mailing address, phone number, email address, transaction and
credit card information. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic
information such as your job function, industry, application, contact
preferences or experience with our products. CalibrationCerts.com may
enhance or merge your information collected on our site with other
operational data as well as data from third parties for purposes of
marketing products or services to you. Such information enables us to better
tailor our content to your needs.
The information you provide will be used to support your professional
relationship with CalibrationCerts.com and our products. Among other things,
we want to help you quickly find information on CalibrationCerts.com, Inc.
Web sites and alert you to information on our products, services and
programs. We also use this information to help you complete a transaction
and to contact you for market research.
Electronic Newsletters
CalibrationCerts.com may offer various free electronic newsletters. Users
may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the instructions
provided in each electronic newsletter or by going to our website.
Contests
CalibrationCerts.com offers contests in which we request certain personal
information. At a minimum, the required information includes name and email
address. In some cases, the entrant must answer mandatory survey questions
about a range of technical interests and personal data. The information
gathered in the entry form is used to verify the entrant's identity and
eligibility, to contact winners or prize recipients, and to market and sell
our products. Because the rules and terms of each contest can vary, all
information about each contest is clearly posted during the event.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to automatically log
information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet
service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time
stamp, and number of clicks. We log this information to analyze trends,
administer the site, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. For areas of our site that
require registration, we log the user's email address and specific
information concerning the user's activity on the site. This information may
be tied to the user's other personal information and, if so, it is used to
support the user's professional relationship with CalibrationCerts.com and
our products.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Cookies are used to enhance your experience on our sites by allowing us to
tailor our content based on your interests. A cookie is a small data file
that is saved on your hard drive when you visit certain Web sites. A cookie
file can contain information, such as a user ID, which the site uses to
personalize content and track the pages you've visited. The only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will
receive the warning message with each cookie. Cookies are required by many
Internet commerce applications supporting online stores. You can refuse
cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies
turned on to browse the majority of the CalibrationCerts.com sites. Cookies
are required to be "enabled" if you choose to enter areas of our site that
require registration or log on.
We may also collect anonymous information through the use of Web beacons.
Web beacons are tiny invisible graphics placed on certain pages of
CalibrationCerts.com's Web site. When a visitor accesses one of these pages,
an anonymous notice of that visit is generated. Processing this information
helps us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is
effective.
In addition, we use Web beacons in some of our HTML-based emails to let
us know what percentage of emails are opened by the recipients. This allows
us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the
effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
Information Sharing
CalibrationCerts.com will not disclose your personal information to any
outside organization unless it is affiliated with CalibrationCerts.com.
Distributors, rental partners, affiliates, contractors, or other business
partners of CalibrationCerts.com who have access to your personal
information use the information in connection with your customer
relationship with CalibrationCerts.com and our products. Contractors use the
information to fulfill CalibrationCerts.com' requirements for such things as
processing credit card purchases, shipping goods to customers, and providing
information to potential customers.
Legal Requirements
CalibrationCerts.com may be required to disclose personal information in
response to a court order or other legal requirement.
Managing Your Information
CalibrationCerts.com offers you the ability to correct or change the
information collected during registration for any site. You may change this
information by returning to that site. You may unsubscribe to any of our
electronic newsletters by following the instructions provided in each
electronic newsletter or by going to our website.
Deleting/Deactivation Policy
CalibrationCerts.com does not offer you a means by which to completely
delete personal information.
Security
CalibrationCerts.com operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy
policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only
authorized individuals have access to the information provided by you. Any
particularly sensitive information, such as a customer's credit card number
collected for a commerce transaction, is encrypted and stored behind an
additional firewall on a protected, secure network.
Children's Privacy Protection
CalibrationCerts.com' Web sites do not target and are not intended for
children under the age of 13. CalibrationCerts.com' Web sites will not
knowingly collect personal data from children, and will delete such data
upon discovery.
Sale of Business
CalibrationCerts.com may transfer personal information to a third party that
acquires a business from CalibrationCerts.com where the information is
provided as an important asset of that acquired business.
Notification of Change
All updates to this Privacy Statement will be posted on this statement. Last
updated February 26, 2004.