Online Privacy Statement |
Last Update: July 1, 2003
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This site is maintained by NEC Technologies Hong
Kong Limited ("NTH"). Protecting your privacy is important to NTH. By ensuring
that you are aware of and understand this Online Privacy Statement, we can
provide you with better service. Please take a moment to read the following
statement to learn how we handle your personally identifiable information. This
Statement may change from time to time, so please check back
periodically.
Site covered by this statement
This
Online Privacy Statement applies only to the collection and use of information
collected online on this site. Other web sites that may be affiliated with NTH
may have different privacy statements.
Information
We may collect your personally
identifiable information ("Personal Information") when you use our web site.
This information may include your name, mailing address, phone number, and
e-mail address. When ordering a product or requesting service information,
participating in certain promotional activities, completing surveys, and
corresponding with us, we may ask for certain Personal Information. Personal
Information is not collected on this web site unless you choose to provide it to
us. If you are on a part of our web site that requires you to provide your
Personal Information, it will be clear what Personal Information we are
requesting.
We may also collect information that is provided to us by
your browser. This may include the browser you used to come to our web site, the
Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the web site that you just visited before
visiting our web site, which pages on our web site you visit, any search terms
you entered, which URL you go to next, and your Internet Protocol ("IP")
address.
Use of your
information
Information is collected and used in various ways,
including those below.
Browsing: When you visit our site or click on
advertisements or promotional areas on the site. This information is collected
to help run our site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information,
to monitor the level of activity on our site, and to evaluate the effectiveness
of advertising and promotion.
Technical support: When you request
technical support for your NEC products. This information is necessary to
identify your products or systems, understand the configuration of the products,
diagnose your questions, and provide solutions.
Online surveys and
polling: When you volunteer to complete surveys or participate in polls. We use
this information to improve our products and services.
Membership
registration: When you register at partner site. We will ask for your personal
information, if you have agreed to be our member.
Contact information: If
you contact us, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments,
including any information therein. We use this information to help us provide
better service.
Sharing your Personal Information
Unless we have your
permission, we will share the Personal Information you provide online only with
other NEC entities or with entities that provide services to NEC or are business
partners of NEC, and only for legitimate purposes including those described
herein. Personal Information we collect online is used for responding to
inquiries, processing orders, keeping you informed about your order status, for
statistical purposes, for improving our site and its performance, for developing
better products and services, to serve advertisements, contests, surveys and
promotions, and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of
interest to you.
NTH (or NEC group) or its related entitles could merge
with or be acquired by another business entity or their respective assets could
be acquired. Should such a combination or acquisition occur, you should expect
that NTH would share some or all of your Personal Information to continue
serving you and other users of our web site.
Occasionally, we may be
required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide your Personal
Information to the appropriate authorities. We will disclose your Personal
Information if required by law, upon receipt of a court order or subpoena, or to
cooperate with a law enforcement investigation. We reserve the right to report
to law enforcement authorities any activities that we, in good faith, believe to
be unlawful.
Use of cookies and web
beacons
A "cookie" is a small data file that a web site can send
to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. We use cookies to
better serve you when you return to our site. Some of our web pages may send
cookies when you visit our site, make purchases, respond to online surveys or
promotions, participate in a contest, or request information. Accepting the
cookies used on our site enables our web server to identify your system by
reading the cookie that has been stored on your system, but our web server
cannot identify you unless you enter your Personal Information. Cookies that are
placed when visiting our site cannot be used to obtain your Personal Information
at another site.
The information collected online permits us to analyze
traffic patterns on our site. This can enable us over time to provide users with
a better experience on our site by improving the content and making it easier to
use.
Depending on the browser used, you can set your browser to notify
you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to
accept it, and you can also set your browser to turn off cookies. However, if
you do so, some areas of this site may not function properly, or you will be
required to re-enter your Personal Information to use an area of this
site.
We may also use web beacon technologies to better tailor the site
to provide better customer service. A web beacon is a single pixel .GIF that
allows a web site to count users who have visited that page or access certain
cookies. These web beacons may be placed on specific pages across this web site.
When a visitor accesses these pages, an anonymous notice of that visit is
generated which may be processed by us or by our vendors. These web beacons work
in conjunction with cookies. If you don't want to associate your anonymous
cookie information with your visits to these pages, depending on the browser
used, you can set your browser to turn off cookies.
Children's
privacy
If you are under the age of 16, please make sure that you
provide your Personal Information only after obtaining your parental
consent.
Protecting your Personal Information
While
NTH does not guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur, NTH does take
care in maintaining the security of your Personal Information and in preventing
unauthorized access to it.
Links to other web
sites
Parts of our site contain links to NEC Group and third-party
web sites for your convenience and information. If you use these links, you will
leave NTH's web site. When you access these other sites, even ones that may
contain the NTH mark, please understand that we do not control the content and
are not responsible for the privacy practices of that web site. We suggest that
you carefully review the privacy policies of each web site you visit. This
Online Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those web
sites linked to our site. These other sites may send their own cookies to users,
collect data, or solicit Personal Information.
Changes to this
statement
NTH reserves the right to change this Online Privacy
Statement at any time. Any such changes will be posted in this Privacy
Statement.
Contact us
Please contact the Webmaster
through the "Contact Us " section if you
have any questions or comments about the
above.
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