Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to the following Chemical Insight LLC ("Chemical Insights") Web site(s), but to make this notice easier to read we will refer here only as "Site", meaning chemicalinsights.com. Other Chemical Insights Web sites may operate under their own privacy notices.
Our Site contains links to other web sites operated by third parties. Chemical Insights is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third party web sites.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We require you to provide certain information about yourself if you register for our Site or request products and/or services. We also collect information when you participate in blogs, forums and surveys on our Site.
The information we collect may include information from which you may be personally identified ("Personally Identifiable Information"), such as name, postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, and certain business information such as employer name, occupation, job function, job title and buying information (e.g., preferences or history). The web site only collects Personally Identifiable Information with your knowledge.
When you visit our web site, we use "cookies" to identify your computer and track your behavior on the Site. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Most browsers allow Users to block the receipt of cookies, but doing so may compromise your ability to use certain features of the Site. A clear GIF is a small graphic image, typically used in connection with cookies, that is placed on a web site or in an email message. A clear GIF can monitor certain user behavior, such as your usage of the web site, whether you opened an email message or whether you clicked on a URL in an email message. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information in this way, but if you provide us with Personally Identifiable Information, we may associate that information with the information that is collected automatically.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
We use Personally Identifiable Information collected on all Chemical Insights Web sites for the following purposes:
- To provide you with enhanced access and usage on the Site.
- To respond to your inquiries and contact you about changes regarding the Site.
- To provide you with e-mail, fax and other notices (such as expiration and renewal notices) regarding your account and the access and permissions that you are using.
- For any other purpose disclosed at the time the information is collected or to which you consent.
- As otherwise specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
We also may use your information to better understand our Users and to improve our Site. For example, we may use this information to determine what portions of the Web site are most popular and the demographics of our Users generally. Cookies and other User information also enable us to customize your experience on the Web site. We may use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers or to administer our Web site. We may also use IP addresses to help identify a User during a particular session and to gather data regarding use of the Web site.
We may use the information you provide us to send you e-mail, fax and other communications on behalf of Chemical Insights and our Partners. These communications may include e-mail newsletters, as well as offers for other Chemical Insights products and services.. All email newsletters will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of receiving future issues of the newsletter. All promotional offers will include an opportunity to opt out of receiving future promotions from the brand whose product/service is being promoted.
We also may use your information to send you e-mail and other communications on behalf of third parties. Each of these communications will include instructions for opting out of receiving future third party offers from us. You may also opt out of receiving third party offers from any Chemical Insights Site at any time by sending an e-mail to support@chemicalinsights.com telling us that you would like to opt out of receiving any third party communications.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated, anonymous statistics about many Users, and individual information that is not Personally Identifiable Information without restriction as long as no individual is identifiable by the information disclosed, and otherwise will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information except as follows:
- Name and/or business name and title (but not information by which you may be contacted (i.e. name, postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address) in representative lists of our database membership, but not for further use or dissemination by the recipient.
- To third parties engaged to provide services under contractual requirement to keep Personally Identifiable Information confidential and use it only to perform the services.
- Portions of all Chemical Insights Sites are provided as "Sponsored" content. Sponsored content is made available to Users on the condition that we may share certain of the User's registration information with the Sponsored content's sponsors and advertisers and/or their service providers.
- To other third parties (and/or to their service providers on their behalf) to market their products or services under contractual requirement to keep Personally Identifiable Information confidential and use it only to market and provide their products or services. You may opt out of such disclosures by sending an e-mail to support@chemicalinsights.com telling us "not to disclose" this information.
- To any successor pursuant to an asset sale, merger, consolidation, restructuring, reorganization, liquidation or other similar transaction involving Chemical Insights or any Chemical Insights Site.
- When we believe such disclosure is required by law, regulation or securities exchange requirement or for the protection of persons or property.
- When disclosure is necessary to accomplish the purpose for which you provide it.
- To Chemical Insights Partners for any uses consistent with those disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
We use reasonable safeguards to protect Personally Identifiable Information we collect on all Chemical Insights Sites from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside of our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION
You can request a copy of the Personally Identifiable information that Chemical Insights has collected about you via the Internet by contacting us at support@chemicalinsights.com. You can also have factual inaccuracies in this information corrected by contacting us at support@chemicalinsights.com.
LINKS
All Chemical Insights Sites contain content, services, advertising and other materials that link to Web sites operated by third parties. We have no control over those other sites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. We encourage you to refer to the privacy policies, if any, of those sites.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices, please e-mail us at support@chemicalinsights.com.
Last Updated: April 26, 2011