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Privacy Policy
CLS and its affiliates ("CLS" or "we")
is committed to protecting the privacy of the personally-identifiable
information that we collect from you as you use this
Web site (the "Site").
The scope of CLS's commitment is detailed in this
Privacy Statement. By submitting information, you agree
to CLS's use of such information as described herein.
Please see our Terms of Use for more information about
our on-line policies in general.
CLS collects personally identifiable information on
certain areas of the Site when users register, participate
in discussion forums, and surveys. The personally-identifiable
information collected may consist of a unique access
ID, company or school affiliations, titles, and contact
information: names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses,
and telephone and fax numbers.
We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information
on file and use it to contact you for various purposes.
CLS also uses personally-identifiable information to
perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order
to measure interest in specific areas and articles posted
on our Site.
The e-mail addresses provided at registration allow
CLS to send e-mail to individuals as required. CLS uses
personally-identifiable information collected from cookies
and IP addresses as described below. CLS may provide
your personally-identifiable information to any of its
affiliates worldwide for a variety of purposes.
The Site may use cookies to identify you and your interests
and to track usage of the Site. Cookies are small pieces
of text stored on your computer that help us know which
browser you are using and where you have been on the
Site and on Web sites to which you may link in order
to use some of our features.
Cookies also let us know whether you have registered
with us and otherwise enable us to relate your current
usage of the Site to prior usage of this or other Sites
of CLS or its affiliates. By accepting our cookie, you
will be permitted access to certain pages of the Site
without having to log in each time you visit. A user
who does not accept the cookie from the Site may not
be able to access certain areas of the Site. CLS also
logs IP addresses, or the location of computers on the
Internet, to help diagnose problems with our server
and to administer the Site.
CLS shall not intentionally disclose (and shall take
reasonable steps to prevent the accidental disclosure
of) your personally-identifiable information to third
parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates
of CLS), whether for such third parties' marketing purposes
or otherwise, subject only to the following four exceptions:
CLS may disclose your personally-identifiable information
to third parties as required or permitted by the laws,
rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other
applicable jurisdiction;
CLS may disclose your personally-identifiable information
to third parties who deliver information from us to
you for the purpose of performing such delivery;
CLS may disclose your personally-identifiable information
if, in connection with submitting the information, you
consent to such disclosure;
CLS may disclose contact information for you in response
to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection
with allegations of infringement of copyright or other
proprietary rights arising from information you have
posted on the Site or otherwise provided to CLS;
If CLS and/or any of its affiliates merges with or
sells substantially all of its assets or a majority
of its equity to a third party, information collected
by CLS or such affiliates on their Web sites may be
disclosed to and owned by the merged entity or third
party.
We may provide links to third-party Web sites as a
service to our users. In addition, some of the content
appearing to be on this Site is in fact supplied by
third parties, for example, in instances of framing
of third- party Web sites or incorporation through framesets
of content supplied by third-party servers.
Please be aware that we cannot control and are not
responsible for the information collection practices
of such third-party Web sites, which may differ from
those of this Site. We encourage you to review and understand
the privacy policies on these Web sites before providing
any information to them.
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any
personally-identifiable information that you submitted
to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists
or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either
follow instructions on the page of the Site on which
you have provided such information or subscribed or
registered, or send us an e-mail at privacy@CLS.com.
Security. CLS has implemented
generally accepted standards of technology and operational
security in order to protect personally-identifiable
information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.
Only authorized CLS personnel are provided access to
personally-identifiable information, and these employees
are required to treat this information as confidential.
Despite these precautions, CLS cannot guarantee that
unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your
personally-identifiable information.
Transborder Hosting and Transfer
of Information
Personally-identifiable information collected on the
Site may be transferred from time to time to CLS offices
located throughout the world, including offices located
outside the European Economic Area (EEA), and the Site
may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including
countries (such as the United States) that may not have
laws regulating the use and transfer of personally-identifiable
data. By using the Site and submitting such information
on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer
and hosting of such information.
Consent. By using the
Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage
of your information by us in the manner described in
this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve
the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from
time to time. We will alert you to any such changes
by updating this Privacy Policy.
Contact Our Privacy Department
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy,
contact us via the
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