Privacy Policy
Introduction
At Advanced Testing Laboratories Inc, "the Company", we respect
your privacy. We want to maintain your confidence in our handling of
any data and information that is collected during your visit to our
web site. We have developed and provided this Privacy Policy to inform
you of our practices and policies regarding the collection, use, maintenance,
and disclosure of your personal data and information.
We are committed to providing you with
adequate information so you can make an informed decision whether to
visit our web site and whether you wish to voluntarily provide any personal
data or information, e.g., your name, e-mail address, telephone number,
etc. Our Privacy Policy is described in the following sections.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small data files that are written to and stored
on your hard drive when you visit a web site. They do not read files
on your hard drive.
Like most web sites, we use cookies to
personalize a user's experience of our web site and to make it easier
for users to complete forms. Our cookies do not track user movement
once you leave our web site, except for noting your destination address.
Most web browsers allow the user to be
notified upon the proposed installation of a cookie and the user can
then decline the cookie. Even if you decline the cookie, you may continue
to use our entire web site.
We use data and information received
from our cookies for marketing purposes and to improve our on-line offering
of services and products. We may also do so to evaluate our site's technical
capacity and to review the navigational structure of our site, e.g.,
to revise or restructure our web site for easier and more intuitive
movement throughout.
Currently, the data and information we
collect with cookies is only reviewed in an aggregated form, which is
not personally identifiable. In the future, however, we may correlate
the data and information received from cookies with personally identifiable
information, to identify specific users and track their web site usage.
This personally identifiable information will be limited to contact
information, such as the user's name, address, phone number, fax number,
and e-mail address. Our use of this combined information will continue
to be solely for the purposes stated above with respect to information
collected through cookies.
Whether or not the data and information
received from cookies is correlated to any specific user, we do not,
and will not, disclose, sell, rent or share any data or information
derived from cookies with any third parties other than to Advanced Testing
Laboratories Inc. affiliated companies ("Affiliates"), except
for personally identifiable information saved in cookies when you register
for or enroll in a program or service as we disclose in accordance with
our policy for Voluntarily Provided Information set forth below, or
as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.
Log Files
We also review data and information contained in log files located on
our web server, which record the date and time of each visit to our
web site, the user's IP (internet protocol) address, the referring IP
address or domain (the prior web site visited), and the files viewed
on our web site (including HTML pages, graphics, etc.). We use log file
information to analyze data in the aggregate to determine the trends
and usage of our site. We can not correlate the log data to identify
specific users.
We do not, and will not, disclose, sell,
rent or share any information derived from log files with any third
parties other than to Affiliates, or as otherwise stated in this Privacy
Policy.
Voluntarily Provided Information
If you register for or enroll in a program or service through our web
site, make purchases from our on-line offerings, respond to a request
for information or make any other on-line request of us, you will be
voluntarily providing personally identifiable information. If you do
not agree with this Privacy Policy, we ask that you please do not provide
the requested information. You may nevertheless continue to use most
of our web site, subject, however, to the collection of information
through cookies and log files as discussed above. If you have previously
provided personally identifiable information by registration through
our web site, you may request to be removed from our active database
of mailing lists (see the discussion below).
Voluntarily provided information is used
to send you announcements of new products, updates, and promotional
information, as well as to provide the services or goods that you request
and give you better customer service. We share personally identifiable
information with our Affiliates, as well as with our third-party business
partners, sales representatives and distributors (collectively, "Partners")
who may provide the requested goods or services to you directly or otherwise
c ontact you directly. Moreover, we rely on various third-party service
companies ("Service Companies") to provide certain services
(e.g., shipping, credit card billing) for which it is necessary to provide
users' personally identifiable information.
We do not, and will not, disclose, sell,
rent or share any personally identifiable information received as a
result of enrollment, registrations or e-commerce transactions on our
web site with any third parties, other than our Affiliates, Partners,
Service Companies, or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that although we may seek
to require that Affiliates, Partners, and Service Companies use information
regarding our users only in the ways permitted by this Privacy Policy,
we do not control and are not responsible for their privacy practices,
or those of any other party.
Collection of Data & Information
by Our ISP
Our Internet Service Provider (ISP) also collects certain information
about your visit. It is the same information contained in a log file
that we collect and analyze, i.e., the date and time of the visit, the
user's IP (internet protocol) address, the referring IP address or domain,
and the files viewed on our web site (including HTML pages, graphics,
etc.). In addition, our ISP has access to back-up files containing the
personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide (even
if your input fails). The ISP does not disclose, share, release, publish,
disseminate, rent, or sell any personally identifiable information to
any third parties, but does use the log files to analyze data in an
aggregate form, which is not personally identifiable information.
Links to Third-Party Web Sites
Through our web pages, you may connect to third parties' web sites via
hyperlinks, and the connections may or may not be obvious. We are not
responsible for the collection, use, maintenance, sharing, or disclosure
of data and information by such third parties. We encourage our users
to be aware of the varied privacy policies of web sites that they visit.
Correspondence
We maintain and review e-mail correspondence that you send to us. We
will use (and maintain in a file specific to you) the personally identifiable
information disclosed in the e-mail. Because such correspondence contains
information that is not transmitted through the operation of our web
site, it is not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Required Disclosures of Data & Information
In addition to disclosures to our Affiliates, Partners, and Service
Companies, and regardless of anything in this Privacy Policy to the
contrary, we may disclose personally identifiable information, with
or without prior notice to you, when we believe that the law requires
it, in response to subpoenas or at the demand of governmental agencies,
to protect our systems or business, to protect other visitors to the
web site, or to respond to an emergency. If you partake, or we reasonably
suspect you of partaking in any illegal activity we may also disclose
your personally identifiable information, even without a subpoena, warrant
or court order. We may also make disclosures of your personally identifiable
information with your affirmative consent.
Maintenance & Transmission of Data
& Information
Although we use reasonable efforts to maintain the privacy of your personally
identifiable data and information, due to technological limitations,
and the risk of unlawful interceptions and accessing of transmissions
and/or data, we cannot completely assure you, and you should not expect,
that your personally identifiable data and information, and any other
electronically communicated information, will be absolutely confidential.
For all e-commerce transactions, we use
industry-standard commercial encryption technology to protect the data
and information that you transmit to us via our web site. Although this
technology is not flawless, we believe that it provides reasonable protection
for your data and information. We will endeavor to update our protective
devices as encryption technology develops further.
Once received, personally identifiable
information is protected from outside the Company by "firewalls,"
and access within the Company is generally limited to the sales, marketing,
and information technology departments. We also seek to require our
Affiliates, Partners and Service Companies to exercise reasonable efforts
to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Your Right to Review & Modify Data
& Information
You have the right, at any time, to review and/or modify any of your
personally identifiable information that you provide during registration,
or any other voluntarily provided information. You may also remove yourself
from our active databases of e-mail lists. To do so, you should send
an e-mail to clientrelations@advancedtesting.net requesting that (a)
we provide a copy of your profile of personally identifiable information,
(b) we update or modify certain personally identifiable information,
or (c) you be removed from our databases of active e-mail lists. We
will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible.
To protect your confidentiality, we can only send a requested profile
to the e-mail address listed in the profile. In any event, our back-up
files will maintain copies of your personally identifiable information.
We reserve the right to contact former customers or users of the web
site from time to time.
Users Under 13
This web site is not directed at children under the age of 13. If you
are younger than 13, please do not provide any personally identifiable
information in connection with your use of the web site.
Assignment
We reserve the right to transfer any and all information that we collect
from our visitors to a third party in the event that we sell or transfer
substantially all of our assets related to the web site to such third
party.
Conclusion
We hope that this Privacy Policy helps you to make an informed decision
whether to visit our web site and/or to provide us with certain information.
If you have any questions, concerns or
problems, we encourage you to email to clientrelations@advancedtesting.net.
We greatly appreciate your suggestions on how we can improve our Privacy
Policy or any aspects of our web site.