General Privacy Policy
These privacy policies disclose the general privacy practices for the sites. The
policies do not cover information we collect by means other than a site. If you
have any questions about how we use information collected by means other than a
site, you should inquire at or before the time you give such information to us.
This General Privacy Policy will apply except where prohibited by law including,
but not limited to, personal information submitted by citizens of EU member states.
EU citizens who submit their personal information using a site expressly agree to
the terms of the General Privacy Policy and waive any different rights under law.
Solely to the extent that the law of the EU or of an EU member state requires a
privacy policy and provisions counter to those in the General Privacy Policy, the
EU Privacy Policy below will apply to personal information collected from citizens
of EU member states.
Additionally, this policy contains several important exceptions, most notably
the exception involving use of information to identify and/or pursue persons who
are under criminal investigation or who damage, or may damage, our information or
other resources. Please read the entire privacy policy to be sure that you understand
these exceptions.
Information Ownership, Collection and Use
We are the sole owner of the information collected through the sites. We will not
sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from those disclosed
in this policy. We may collect information from users at several different points
on a site.
This privacy policy addresses some types of information, means of collecting information,
and uses of information that may not presently apply to one or more of the sites.
We tell you about these types of information, means of collecting information, and
uses of information anyway because we want to maintain flexibility in offering additional
features without having to revisit our terms and conditions or privacy policy every
time we revise a site or offer new functions. No description of any type of information,
means of collecting information, or use of information will require us to collect
any particular information, make any particular use of any information, or offer
any particular functionality through any site.
Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance and Related Information
The Child Online Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA) regulates online collection
of information from persons under the age of 13. It is our policy to refrain from
knowingly collecting or maintaining personally identifiable information relating
to any person under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not
supply any personally identifiable information through the site. If you are under
the age of 18 and have already provided personally identifiable information through
the site, please have your parent or guardian contact us immediately using the information
below so that we can remove such information from our files.
Ordering, Event Registration, and Related Processes
When and if you order products or services using a site or register for an event,
we request information from you using an order form. When we already have information
about you (such as through a previous order or registration, whether received through
a site or otherwise), we may use such information to facilitate the order or registration
process. When using an order form, you must provide contact information (such as
name and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number
and expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill
your order. If we have trouble processing an order, we use this contact information
to contact you.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the computer that runs an Internet browser.
It can contain information about you, your computer, your browser, your session,
the websites you visit, and other information about you or others who use, or have
used, the computer or browser you use to access the Internet. The cookies we use,
if any, are not linked to any personally identifiable information while using a
site unless you have given us permission to link personally identifiable information
to one or more cookies. You give us that permission any time you register on a site,
place an order through a site, or identify yourself or the computer you are using
through a site.
Most or all browsers permit you to disable or reject cookies. You can do this by
setting the preferences in the browser. Use the “help” feature of your browser to
obtain more information about refusing cookies. As of the time we wrote this privacy
policy, there was information about how to disable cookies at the following websites.
We do not operate either of these websites and we make no representation or warranty
about the information contained in the websites to which these links will take you.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b283185
http://wp.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html
If you set the browser you use to reject cookies, you can use the sites, but you
may not be able to use the full functionality of one or more of the sites or it
may take additional time to utilize such functionality.
One or more of the organizations with which we do business, or to which we provide
links from a site, may also use cookies. We have no control over such organizations’
uses of cookies and users should review the privacy policies of such organizations
to determine the uses such organizations make of cookies.
Log Files
We or our hosting provider may collect traffic information from visitors for statistical
analysis and site improvement. When you accesses a site, we or our hosting provider
may collect information about your visit in a log file on a server. Log file information
may include, but is not limited to, internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type,
internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time
stamp, and number of clicks. We or our hosting provider use this information to
analyze trends, administer sites, track users’ movements in the aggregate, and gather
demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses and other log file information
are not linked to personally identifiable information. We do not try to track users
or to identify users individually except as otherwise stated in this policy, but
we or our hosting provider do review this information to understand overall trends
and to determine what kinds of content are popular and useful to users.
Sharing
(a) Aggregated information. We or our hosting provider may share
aggregated demographic information with our users, our affiliated organizations,
and other organizations with which we do, or contemplate doing, business. Such information
is aggregated and is not linked to any information that can identify individual
users.
(b) Outsourcing providers. We may use outside shipping or other
outsourcing providers to process and ship orders or perform other functions. We
use commercially reasonable diligence to restrict the purposes for which these outsourcing
providers may use your personally identifiable information. The requirements or
requests that we impose on such outsourcing providers vary with the sensitivity
of the information and can, but do not necessarily, include requirements that these
outsourcing providers not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information
for any secondary purposes, except for backup and recovery operations. Although
we use good faith efforts to impose, and/or ensure compliance by our outsourcing
providers, we cannot, and will not, be responsible to users for misuse of personally
identifiable information by such outsourcing providers. This section is meant as
a general description of our practices. It does not impose any duty upon us and
it does not constitute a representation or warranty by us upon which you may rely.
(c) Specific services. We may have agreements with other parties
to provide specific services. When you use such services, we may share personally
identifiable information with such parties. In such cases, we will use good faith
efforts to restrict the information provided to the information necessary for the
provision of such services.
(d) General use. We share personally identifiable information (whether
in return for compensation or otherwise) with various vendors, suppliers, and advertisers.
While we use good faith efforts to verify that such vendors, suppliers, and advertisers
promote products and services of interest to site users, we cannot, and do not,
endorse such vendors, suppliers, advertisers, products or services unless we expressly
state otherwise. We share only such information as you yourself provide to us or
someone else provides about you (such as through a registration process) and do
not share personally identifiable information derived indirectly through IP address
tracing or similar means. If you wish us to refrain from providing your personally
identifiable information in this manner, please see the opt-out information and
contact information provided below.
Links and Information Gathered by Others
One or more sites may contain links to other websites. We do not operate those websites
and we cannot control the information that the operators of such websites gather
or what the operators of such websites do with the information. We are therefore
not responsible for the activities of the operators of such websites.
Newsletter
If you wish to subscribe to a newsletter we offer or to a mailing list that we maintain,
we will collect from you contact information necessary to send the newsletter or
other information to you. This is usually limited to your e-mail address, but may
include other information.
Surveys and Contests
From time to time, we may request information from you using surveys or contests.
Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore
have a choice as to whether to disclose this information. Information requested
may include contact information (such as name and address) and demographic information
(such as zip code and type of user). We will use such contact information to notify
winners and award prizes, and to monitor or improve the use of one or more sites
and provide aggregated information for our own uses or to our customers or other
organizations, and we may also use it to notify you of news about us or our affiliates
or promotions of our products or services or the products or services of people
with whom we do business.
Tell-A-Friend
We may offer a referral service that allows you to inform your friends and other
acquaintances about content on the site or to forward information to them. If you
elect to use such a referral service, we will collect the friend or acquaintance’s
e-mail address and use it to send to the friend or acquaintance a one-time e-mail
inviting the friend or acquaintance to visit one or more sites or providing the
information you requested. We store this contact information for the sole purpose
of sending the one-time e-mail. When you use such a service, you represent and warrant
to us that you have an existing business or personal relationship with the friend
or acquaintance sufficient to avoid liability under any law that applies to unsolicited
e-mail. You will be the sender of any such e-mail and we will merely be a service
provider facilitating your sending of the e-mail.
Security
Where we collect nonpublic personal information from you, we or one or more of our
service providers use industry-standard encryption and security standards to protect
such information. You can tell whether encryption is being used by noting the “locked”
or other status indicator on the browser you are using. If the browser you are using
does not indicate that the session is secure (e.g. by displaying a lock, a key or
another icon), you should assume that the connection is not secure and that third
parties will receive the information shared by you and us during that part of the
session.
We also use commercially reasonable efforts to protect user information offline.
All sensitive user information is maintained in our offices or at the facilities
of our information technology provider(s). We cause access to servers and connections
to be limited by key or other access. Only employees or agents who need the information
to perform specific functions are granted access to personally identifiable information.
We use reasonable efforts to assure that our employees and agents are informed of
our security and privacy practices.
Supplementation of Information
We sometimes supplement the information we receive from you with other information
we receive from third party sources, such as credit card issuers or clearinghouses.
Special Offers
We may send to you a welcoming e-mail that may also verify password and user name
information. We occasionally send newsletters or information about products, services,
and special deals to users like you. You may opt to not receive such informational
communications by using the contact information below.
Site and Service Updates
We may also send to you updates and service announcements about one or more of the
sites. You may not un-subscribe or opt not to receive such announcements because
such announcements contain important information about the services offered through
the relevant site(s).
Misappropriation of Personal Information
For the purposes of any applicable law regarding notification of persons whose personal
information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized
person, our information security policy provides that any required notification
may, where permitted by law, be made by the use of e-mail, telephone, fax, mail
(including a notice printed in an available area of a bill or statement) or posting
a notice on a site. The specific means used is up to us and we will use our judgment
based on the circumstances. Where any notice is to be sent to a specific address
or number (such as e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, etc.), we
will use the latest available address in our records. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED
BY LAW, YOU AGREE TO THIS MEANS OF NOTIFICATION.
Correcting or Updating Personal Information
If your personal information changes, if you have reason to believe that your personal
information as we maintain it is incorrect, or if you no longer desire service,
you may contact us using the contact information below and we will accommodate all
reasonable requests for such changes.
Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to receive newsletters or promotional materials
or have their information provided to third parties may opt to not receive
such communications or have information shared by contacting us using the information
below. We will comply with such requests as soon as is commercially practicable.
Such compliance may involve batch processing and other processes that take 30 days
or longer. If you opt not to receive such communications or allow us to share your
information and then give your personal information to us again using a site or
under other circumstances that permit us to use your information, we will regard
your opt-out as rescinded.
In most cases, it is impractical for use to stop any other party to whom we have
supplied your information from continuing to use the information and opting out
will usually not stop others to whom we have provided your information from continuing
to use it.
To change your preference with regard to the way your information is treated:
Send e-mail to sales@si-micro.com
Response Times
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to timely make any changes you request.
Many such changes are accomplished using batch processing (i.e. collecting a number
of similar change requests and making all such changes at once), so the changes
may not be immediately effective. If you require an immediate change to your personally
identifiable information and are unable to make such a change using the available
site resources, please contact us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes on one or more
sites and/or other places we deem appropriate.
Except as stated below, we will use information in accordance with the privacy policy
under which the information was collected.
If we decide to use information about you in a manner different from that stated
in the privacy policy in effect at the time of collection, we will notify you by
e-mail if, and to the extent that, you have provided your e-mail address. If you
reply to such an e-mail within a reasonable time and request that we not use your
personally identifiable information in the proposed new manner, we will honor your
request, but we reserve the right to suspend your access to all or part of the services
offered through one or more sites if you do so. If you do not reply to such an e-mail,
or we receive a reply of “undeliverable” or similar message from your last known
e-mail address, in either case after a reasonable time, we will use the information
in the proposed new manner.
BY USING A SITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS CHANGE PROCEDURE.
Exceptions
Notwithstanding anything else in this privacy policy to the contrary, we may collect
personally identifiable information and use such information in ways other than
those described above if we are required to do so by law or if we deem it advisable
in the course of assisting law enforcement activities or protecting our site(s)
or other property. Without limiting the foregoing, we reserve the right to use and
disclose any information that you provide to us if we deem it advisable in the prosecution
or defense of any litigation involving your use of any site..
Contact Information
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy or if you have questions
regarding the policy, you may contact our privacy liaison using the following information.
Privacy Liaison
1701 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
Tel.: (408) 577-0100
Fax: (408) 577-0123
E-mail: sales@si-micro.com
If you (a) wish to begin or end receipt of newsletters or promotional information
(b) wish to update your user information, or (c) wish to opt in or out of any other
service offered through the site, please contact our technical personnel using the
following information. Please be sure to include your name and your user name (if
applicable), but do not include any information regarding your password(s), if any.
Website Technical Support
1701 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
Tel.: (408) 577-0100
Fax: (408) 577-0123
E-mail: sales@si-micro.com
European Union Privacy Policy
This is the European Union Privacy Policy (the “EU Policy”). It interacts with the
General Privacy Policy above as stated above in the introduction to the General
Privacy Policy. We anticipate that this EU Policy will not apply at all or will
apply very infrequently.
The EU Directive on the Protection of Personal Data (the “EU Directive” or the “Directive”)
prohibits, in the absence of consent, the transfer of personal data to non-EU countries
that do not meet the European “adequacy” standard for data protection. The EU standard
is specified in a number of privacy principles as detailed below. We have listed
the privacy principles below, along with the ways we comply with those principles.
“Personal data” and “personal information” and “your information” means data about
you that identifies or can identify you and that is within the scope of the Directive,
received by us from a source in the European Union, and recorded in any form.
This EU Policy applies to all personal information about you that we collect, maintain,
or disclose, regardless of the way in which we collect it (i.e. whether through
a site or otherwise).
Notice
If we state a specific purpose for gathering of information at the time we ask you
to give the information to us, we will not use the information for any purpose other
that the purposes stated or for purposes reasonably related to fulfilling that purpose.
For example, if you give us your contact information in connection with the purchase
of a product, we will use that information to communicate with you about the product
(e.g. warranties, claims, features, maintenance, and use) and about issues reasonably
related to the product (e.g. to tell you about user groups, events, and additional
information that are available to you online, through print media, or in your physical
area). We will not use the information for any purpose about which we have not notified
you as of the date you provide the information to us and/or as of the date you give
to us your further express or implied consent after receiving such notice.
You can contact us with any inquiries or complaints using the contact information
above.
If you choose to revise or withdraw your consent at any time, you may contact us
using the information above and, to the extent we do not have a right under the
Directive to continue to obtain, maintain, and/or disclose such information, we
will comply with your request.
Choice
Except as otherwise provided by the Directive, you may choose whether your personal
information is (a) to be disclosed to a third party or (b) to be used for a purpose
that is incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or
subsequently authorized by the individual. You may express your choices to us using
the contact information above.
For sensitive information (e.g. personal information specifying medical or health
conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical
beliefs, trade union membership, or information specifying sex life), we will give
you an affirmative or explicit choice if the information is to be disclosed to a
third party or used for a purpose other than those for which it was originally collected
or subsequently authorized by you.
Consistent with the Directive, we may or may not solicit or obtain your consent
where the use of your personal information is (1) in your vital interests of the
interests of another person; (2) necessary for the establishment of legal claims
or defenses; (3) required to provide medical care or diagnosis; (4) necessary to
carry out our obligations in the field of employment law; or (5) related to data
that you manifestly make public.
Onward Transfer
We apply the Notice and Choice principles above when providing your personal information
to third parties. Where we wish to transfer information to a third party that is
acting as our agent we may do so if we first either ascertain that the third party
subscribes to the EU Directive Privacy Principles or is subject to the Directive
or another adequacy finding or enter into a written agreement with such third party
requiring that the third party provide at least the same level of privacy protection
as is required by the relevant principles. Note that, so long as we comply with
these requirements, you may not hold us responsible (unless we specifically agree
otherwise in an authenticated record that refers to this provision) when a third
party to which we transfer such information processes it in a way contrary to any
restrictions or representations, unless we knew or should have known that the third
party would process it in such a contrary way and we have not taken reasonable steps
to prevent or stop such processing. If you suspect, or become aware of, any such
processing, please contact us using the information above and give us as many specifics
as possible.
Investment bankers or auditors may process your personal information without your
knowledge, but only to the extent and for the period necessary to meet statutory
or public interest requirements and in other circumstances in which the application
of the EU Privacy Principles would prejudice our legitimate interests. These legitimate
interests include the monitoring of our compliance with our legal obligations and
legitimate accounting activities, and the need for confidentiality connected with
possible acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, or other similar transactions carried
out by investment bankers or auditors.
Security
We are required to take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information
from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.
We use the means described in the Security section of our General Privacy Policy
above.
Data Integrity
The personal information we use must be relevant for the purposes for which it is
to be used. We will not process personal information in a way that is incompatible
with the purposes for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by
you. We generally assume that information that you give to us is accurate. If information
you give to us is inconsistent with other information you give to us or with information
that is available in public records or from other sources we are permitted by law
to use, we will use reasonable efforts to make sure that the information we process
is accurate. If, using prudent business practices, we reasonably satisfy ourselves
that we have identified the correct information, we will make the correction internally
and may or may not confirm the correction with you.
Access
You may have access to personal information about you that we hold and you may correct,
amend, or delete that information where it is inaccurate, except where the burden
or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy
in the case in question, or where the rights of third persons would be violated.
To access your personal information, and to correct, amend, or delete that information
where it is inaccurate, please contact us using the contact information above.
We provide access in the form of disclosure to the affected individual and, unless
otherwise required by applicable law, do not permit access to our database.
We may charge you a reasonable fee for access to your personal information. We expect
that this fee will approximate our actual costs or providing access to you. We may
also waive such fees on a case-by-case basis.
If we refuse access to your personal information for any reason, we will tell you
our reasons and will do so as specifically as we can. We may refuse to provide access
to information to the extent that disclosure is likely to interfere with the safeguarding
of important countervailing public interests, such as national security; defense;
or public security. In addition, we may deny access where personal information is
processed solely for research or statistical purposes. Other reasons for denying
or limiting access are:
(a) Interference with execution or enforcement of the law, including the prevention,
investigation or detection of offenses or the right to a fair trial;
(b) Interference with private causes of action, including the prevention, investigation,
or detection of legal claims or the right to a fair trial;
(c) Disclosure of personal information pertaining to other individual(s) where such
references cannot be redacted;
(d) Breaching a legal or other professional privilege or obligation;
(e) Breaching the necessary confidentiality of future or ongoing negotiations, such
as those involving the acquisition of publicly quoted companies;
(f) Prejudicing employee security investigations or grievance proceedings;
(g) Prejudicing the confidentiality that may be necessary for limited periods in
connection with employee succession planning and corporate reorganizations;
(h) Prejudicing the confidentiality that may be necessary in connection with monitoring,
inspection or regulatory functions connected with sound economic or financial management;
or
(i) Other circumstances in which the burden or cost of providing access would be
disproportionate or the legitimate rights or interests of others would be violated.
Enforcement
If we fail to comply with this privacy policy or otherwise comply with the Directive,
we encourage you to tell us about the failure to comply and to be as specific as
possible so that we can resolve any dispute between us.
If you are not satisfied with the resolution we offer, you may seek redress from
us using arbitration. All arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration
Association according to its applicable rules. The place of arbitration will be
Santa Clara County in the State of California, USA. All disputes will be resolved
by reference to the EU Privacy Principles and the arbitrator may, among other things,
award damages where the applicable law or private sector initiatives so provide.
We will follow up and permit the arbitrator to verify that the attestations and
assertions we make about our privacy practices are true and that privacy practices
have been implemented as presented.
Last revised as of 14 May 2007.