This Privacy Policy describes how your information is protected, collected and used for our services on the PhotonicsIndustry.com. By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on February 1st, 2008.

Information sharing and disclosure

• We don't share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
• We don't engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.
• We don't employ tracking devices for marketing purposes ("cookies", "web beacons", single-pixel gifs).
• We don't send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
• Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
• PhotonicsIndustry.com does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13. If PhotonicsIndustry.com learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 13, PhotonicsIndustry.com will remove that post.
• PhotonicsIndustry.com, or people who post on PhotonicsIndustry.com, may provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

Data we collect:

• We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc.
• For paid job postings, we collect contact information, such as name(s), phone/fax number(s), and address for billing purposes.
• PhotonicsIndustry.com does not store credit card information. Credit card transactions are transmitted to a financial gateway, and we endeavor to protect the security of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
• We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any personal information on our forums or classifieds that you expect to keep private.

Data we store:

• All classified and forum postings are stored in our database, even after "deletion," and may be archived elsewhere.
• Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.
• Registered job posters can access and update their account information through the account homepage.
• Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

Archiving and display of PhotonicsIndustry.com postings by search engines and other sites

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Circumstances in which PhotonicsIndustry.com may release information

• PhotonicsIndustry.com may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
• PhotonicsIndustry.com may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use ; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of PhotonicsIndustry.com, its users or the general public.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• PhotonicsIndustry.com may update this policy from time to time. PhotonicsIndustry.com will provide notice of materially significant changes to this privacy policy by posting notice on this site.