Effective 12:01 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time, September 10, 2004
IMPORTANT: BY USING THE SCMMICRO.COM WEBSITE YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT
THAT ALL PERSONAL DATA THAT YOU SUBMIT MAY BE PROCESSED BY SCM MICROSYSTEMS IN
THE MANNER AND FOR THE PURPOSES DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY.
Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy Statement to
inform you about our privacy practices for the entire SCM Microsystems site (which covers scmmicro.com).
Definitions
The website www.scmmicro.com is owned and operated by SCM Microsystems, Inc.
The terms "SCM Microsystems", "we", "us", "our" and "ours" when used in this
Privacy Policy means SCM Microsystems, Inc., which includes all its subsidiaries,
affiliates and related companies.
The terms "you", "your" and "yours" when used in these Terms of Use mean any user of this website.
The term "Personal Data" refers to any personally identifiable information about you,
such as your name, company affiliation (if any), e-mail address, telephone number,
fax number and mailing address.
Collection of Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that
visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it to us. If you are simply browsing
our site, we do not gather any personal information about you. We use links
throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to contact us via e-mail
to ask questions, request information and materials, or provide comments and
suggestions. You may also be offered the opportunity to have one of our representatives
contact you personally to provide additional information about our products or services.
To do so, we may request personal information from you - such as your name, company
affiliation (if any), address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number and
mailing address - to help us satisfy your request.
Statistical Information About Your Visit
When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about
your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about a
visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site,
our users' IP addresses, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors
come and which browsers people use. We use statistics about your visit for
aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the
performance of our website.
Use of Cookies
Many commercial websites use a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information
about how people use the site. A cookie is a small string of text that a website can send
to a user's browser. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive,
pass on computer viruses, or capture your e-mail address. Currently, the SCM Microsystems
website uses cookies in conjunction with the presentation of an End User License Agreement
that must be accepted by the user before downloading software drivers from the support page
of the website. This cookie will be erased from the user's computer once the user has closed
his or her browser.
Use of Personal Data
We process your Personal Data only for specific and limited purposes. We ask only for data
that is adequate, relevant and not excessive for those purposes. When we ask you for
Personal Data, we tell you the purposes for which we will process that data. Some of
these purposes include the following:
- We generally respond to any e-mail questions, requests for product, service or
investment information, and other inquiries that we receive.
- We may also retain this correspondence to improve our products, services,
and website, and for other disclosed purposes. We may retain contact information
so that we can send individuals updates or other information about our services and products.
- We may contact you occasionally to inform you of new services we will be providing,
or special offers, events or articles we think will be of interest to you.
- At your explicit request, we will add your name to our database to receive
investment related news about SCM Microsystems.
- We may use your Personal Data internally to help us improve our products and
services and to help resolve any problems.
Declining E-mail Offers
At any time after receiving an e-mail correspondence from SCM Microsystems, you may
request to be removed from our e-mail lists by contacting webmaster@scmmicro.com.
Disclosure of your Personal Data
We currently do not sell or distribute your Personal Data with or to third parties,
except under limited circumstances, including those described below. In the future,
we may sell or distribute your Personal Data with or to third parties under other circumstances.
- In the case of e-mail requests for technical support, we sometimes forward the
sender's email request, which may contain your Personal Data, to the relevant contact
at one of three companies that now distribute and support certain products for which
we continue to receive support requests.
- In the case of e-mail requests for sales contact or product sales information,
we sometimes forward the sender's email request, which may contain your Personal Data,
to one of our distributors, or for inquiries for products not sold by us, to business
partners whom we know have similar products to those being requested.
- We may share or transfer the information in our databases, which may contain your
Personal Data, to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice,
to protect your vital interests, to protect the security or integrity of our databases
or this website, to take precautions against legal liability, or in the event of a
corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event.
Data Integrity and Security
We strive to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of
Personal Data in our databases and to protect the privacy and security of our databases.
Although we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure,
alteration or destruction of data, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
Links to other web sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to www.scmmicro.com and to other SCM Microsystems
URLs through or from which you have reached this website. This website contains
hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by SCM Microsystems. These hyperlinks
are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement
of the activities of these third-party web sites or any association with their operators.
We do not control these web sites and are not responsible for their data or privacy
practices. We urge you to review any privacy policy posted on any site you visit
before using the site or providing any Personal Data about yourself.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy forms part of our website Terms of Use and as such shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California,
U.S.A. You agree to submit any dispute arising out of your use of this website
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Santa Clara, California.
Changes to Privacy Policy
SCM Microsystems' privacy policy is subject to change at any time and without notice.
Any changes will be posted in the Privacy Policy section of our website as soon as is
practicable after their adoption.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns about the way we
process your Personal Data, please contact us by e-mailing us at webmaster@scmmicro.com.
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