| About Dharmacon |
| Dharmacon.com Privacy
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updated April 14, 2008 |
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Dharmacon, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (“Dharmacon”) has created this privacy statement in order to disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site, www.dharmacon.com.
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| Use of your Personal Information |
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At Dharmacon, we take your privacy seriously. In general, you can visit Dharmacon.com without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information and website registration information (such as your name, your company name, password, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, contact and billing information (including shipping address and end-user), transaction, and/or credit card information), that information is used to improve the services we and our affiliates offer, to improve our Web site's content, and with your permission, to contact you with updates about our website and/or products and services. In order to offer you a more consistent experience in your interactions with Dharmacon, information collected by Dharmacon.com may be combined with information collected by Dharmacon through other means.
Dharmacon will not share any information obtained on this site with any other company or sell information obtained on this site to any company or marketing group external to Dharmacon; however, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information (i) as required by law; (ii) to our affiliates and (iii) to other companies that we have hired to provide the services that you requested. These companies - our vendors - are contractually bound to use personal information we share with them only to perform the services we have hired them to provide. We do not share, sell, or lease personal information about you to any third-parties for their marketing use. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. You can choose not to receive such direct marketing or market research contact by contacting us.
Dharmacon will make efforts to apply local country laws and policies where they differ from those in the United States, if any.
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| Cookies |
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a web site transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Many cookies last only through a single session, or visit. Others may have an expiration date, or may remain on your computer until you delete them. Cookies can help a web site to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and also to improve the user experience. Most major web sites use cookies.
We use cookies for a number of purposes - for example, to maintain continuity during a user session, to gather data about the usage of our web site for research and other purposes, to store your preferences for certain kinds of information and marketing offers, or to store a username or encrypted customer identification number so that you do not have to provide this information every time you return to our site. We may share some cookie information we gather with Dharmacon affiliate companies. Our cookies may be, but typically are not, used to gather personally identifiable information including what site pages a visitor accesses.
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| Security of your Personal Information |
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Dharmacon is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please click on the Contact Us link at the top of the page. An e-mail will be dispatched to a member of the Dharmacon staff, and someone will respond to your question or comment.
Please check this privacy policy periodically to inform yourself of any changes. We reserve the right to modify or supplement this privacy policy from time to time without notice to you. |
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