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ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
We at Advanced Test Equipment Corporation respect your privacy. This statement is our
privacy policy, which discloses our information practices. It describes:
- What personally identifiable information of yours (information from which someone may
personally identify you) is collected from you through our Web site.
- What personally identifiable information of a third party (such as your Internet Service
Provider) is collected from you through our Web site.
- The organization or company that is collecting the information.
- How the information is used.
- With whom the information may be shared.
- What choices you have regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
- The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or
alteration of information under our control.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you believe that we are not abiding by our posted privacy policy, you should contact
us by e-mailing your concern to or by mail at
Advanced Test Equipment Corp., 10401 Roselle Street, San Diego, CA 92121.
Information Collection
Advanced Test Equipment Corp. collects information from our users in several areas of
our Web site as described in this privacy policy.
Request for Quote Forms
We request information from you on our request for quote form. You must provide
contact information (such as name and shipping address). This information is used to
provide an accurate quote and may later be used to fill your orders and for billing
purposes. If we have trouble processing your request for quote, we use this contact
information to get in touch with you.
Cookies
A cookie is a message that the server for our Web site gives to your Web browser. Your
browser stores the message in a file called www.atecorp.txt, cookie.txt, or
similar. Each time the browser
requests a page from the server, a message is sent back to the server. Purposes for
cookies include identifying users and preparing customized Web pages for them. The next
time you visit our site, your browser will send the cookie to the server, which can use
the information to present you with a more personalized experience. For instance, the site
may greet you by your name or remember your username when you begin to fill out a form.
If you have any questions or concerns about Cookies, please feel free to email
us at .
If you reject the cookie, you may still use our site, however you may only receive
limited information in some areas of the site.
Log Files
We use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track
a user's movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
"Aggregate use" means that information from all users is collected and gathered
into a whole unit so that information as a whole can be used.
Information Use
Advanced Test Equipment Corp. is the sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not share, sell or rent this information to others in any way other than as
disclosed in this policy or stated at the point where the information is collected.
Sharing
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers.
This information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any
individual person.
Security
We want to protect your information.
We do not offer online processing of credit card transactions. We do not offer any
encryption for online sessions of our web site visitors. We discourage submitting any
sensitive information such as credit card information and/or social security number on our
web site. Credit card authorization forms and/or credit applications should be returned
via FAX or postal mail only.
We also use our best efforts to protect your information off-line. All of our
users information, not just the sensitive information, is restricted in our offices.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (such as our billing
clerk or customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable
information. The servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in
a secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security for our web site, please e-mail us at
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Links
This Web site may contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices of other organizations and web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of
each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
policy applies solely to information collected by Advanced Test Equipment Corp.
at www.atecorp.com.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post a link to those changes on our
Home Page so you will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it and
under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Revised July 19, 2005
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