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.
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 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. 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 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.