PRIVACY POLICY

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Information on this web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice. Pierce de Resistance may also make improvements, changes and/or deletions in the products and/or the programs described in this information at any time without notice.

Pierce de Resistance (PdR) does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through our web site. Please note that any information or material sent to PdR will be deemed NOT to be confidential but will be subject to the Privacy Policy below. By sending PdR any information or material, you grant PdR an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information, and you also agree that PdR is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose.

Information that PdR publishes on the World Wide Web may contain references or cross references to PdR products, programs and services that are not announced or available in your country. Such references do not imply that PdR intends to announce such products, programs or services in your country. Consult your local PdR contact for information regarding the products, programs and services which may be available to you.

PdR makes no representations whatsoever about any other web site which you may access through this one. When you access a non-PdR web site, please understand that it is independent from PdR, and that PdR has no control over the content on that web site. In addition, a link to a non-PdR web site does not mean that PdR endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such web site. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature. IN NO EVENT WILL PdR BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY OR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR ANY USE OF THIS WEBSITE, OR ON ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Informational statements concerning the year 2000 capabilities of any product or service other than those of PdR are republications under the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act (referred to as "Republications") and are based on information supplied by third parties. PdR has not independently verified the contents of the Republications and takes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of information contained in the Republications.

PRIVACY POLICY

This is how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our Web site. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site.

Automatic Information When you visit our Web site, our Web server may automatically recognizes and store the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account), the date and time you access our site, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Web site from where you came. This information enables us to run site usage tools and create statistics about our site. These statistics help us to better understand how our site is being used and what we can do to make it more useful to visitors. This information is not stored in a personally-identifiable format.

Information You Provide Us We use the information that you provide us for responding to your requests, customizing the material presented to you based on your past visits to our web site, to communicate with you, and to improve the content of our web site. The primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you customized services, features and content, and give you an efficient personalized experience that best meets your needs.

If you choose to identify yourself by sending us an email or completing an online form, PdR employees and business partners will have access to such information in order to contact you for direct marketing purposes. We also aggregate information on what pages you access. Information submitted by you, such as survey information and/or comments or feedback, may be stored in a personally-identifiable format and is used only for internal purposes and is not shared with people or organizations outside of PdR, its subsidiaries or successors in interest, and its business partners. If we want to share your name outside this group or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us, then we will we ask your permission to use your name with the materials or other information you submitted to a particular part of this site.

Links This site may contain links to other sites not owned or managed by PdR. PdR is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites.

Use of “Cookies” “Cookies” are small files that are placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. We may use cookies to allow you to let enter your password less frequently during a session. No other personal information is stored in this cookie.

Release of information PdR will release any information that is required to be released by law or court order. Security of the information

Secure socket layer (SSL) may be used and is an encryption technique to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. All the information you provide us through these forms is stored securely offline. If you send us an email, you should know that email is not necessarily secure against interception unless you are using a security-enabled web browser.

The above policies are effective as of DECEMBER 30, 2001. PdR reserves the right to change this policy at any time. The use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at this time. Users wishing to see the changes may do so by visiting our web site privacy policy statement frequently.