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Privacy Statement

Last Updated: 25 January, 2008

Abekas, Incorporated 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.

When you visit the Abekas, Incorporated Web site, we help you maintain control over your personal data on the Internet. Below are the guidelines we use for protecting the information you provide us during a visit to our Internet sites.

 

 

Information Gathering and Usage
Abekas, Incorporated 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, e-mail 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. Abekas 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 Abekas and our products. Among other things, we want to help you quickly find information on Abekas, Incorporated 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.

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Links to Other Sites
This Web site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Abekas. Links to other sites will open in a new browser window; or a new tab in your browser. Please be aware that Abekas is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other Web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally-identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

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Message Boards/Forums  
This Web site may make forums and message boards available to you. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

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Electronic Newsletters
Abekas may offer various free electronic newsletters. Users may remove themselves from these mailing lists by following the instructions provided in each electronic newsletter or by e-mailing privacy@abekas.com.

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Forward to a Friend Feature
If you use this feature, your e-mail address will appear as the sender of the e-mail. Both your e-mail address and the recipient’s e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose, except to facilitate the sending of this one-time e-mail to your friend.

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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 e-mail 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 Abekas and our products.

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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 can contain information, such as a user ID or preferences, which the site uses to personalize content and track the pages you’ve visited. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering or logging on to our Web site.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you may be able to change the settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. Although rejection of cookies will not interfere with your ability to interact with most of our site, you will need to accept cookies if you choose to enter areas of our site that require registration or login.

We also collect information through the use of web beacons. Web beacons are tiny invisible graphics placed on certain pages of Abekas’s web. When a visitor accesses one of these pages, a notice of that visit is generated. Web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. Processing this information helps us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective.

In addition, we may use web beacons in some of our HTML-based e-mails to let us know what percentage of e-mails are opened by the recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

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Information Sharing
Abekas will NOT disclose your personal information to outside organizations unless they are directly affiliated with Abekas. Distributors, rental partners, affiliates, contractors, or other business partners of Abekas who have access to your personal information use the information in connection with your customer relationship with Abekas and our products. Contractors use the information to fulfill Abekas’s requirements for such things as processing credit card purchases, shipping goods to customers, and providing information to potential customers.

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Legal Requirements
Abekas may be required to disclose personal information in response to a court order or other legal requirement.

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Managing Your Information
How you can manage your personal information on our Web Site:

Information Correction and Updating
Abekas 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 or by e-mailing privacy@abekas.com. You may unsubscribe to any of our electronic newsletters by following the instructions provided in each electronic newsletter or by e-mailing privacy@abekas.com.

Deleting/Deactivation Policy
Abekas does not offer you a means by which to completely delete personal information, but you can deactivate your identity within our database. To deactivate an identity, e-mail privacy@abekas.com

Security
Abekas 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 prior to transmission.

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Children’s Privacy Protection
Abekas’s Web site does not target and is not intended for children under the age of 16. Abekas’s Web site will not knowingly collect personal data from children, and will delete such data upon discovery.

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Sale of Business
Abekas may transfer personal information to a third party that acquires a business from Abekas where the information is provided as an important asset of that acquired business. You will be notified of the transfer in accordance with our Notification of Change procedure outlined at the end of this policy.

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Notification of Change
All updates to this Privacy Statement will be posted on this statement. Last updated 25 January, 2008. If we make a material change to this statement with respect to the use of personal information, we will place a notice on our Web site.

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