Collection and Registration of Personal Information
We are committed to maintaining your confidence and trust with respect to the information we collect from you. This privacy policy sets forth what information we collect about you, how we use your information. The information collected may include contact information such as the user's name, e-mail address, postal address, principal professional field and country.
The Registration Information is linked directly to a personal User Name and Password chosen by the user or assigned by SIMID and can only be retrieved by supplying the correct User Name and Password that is linked to that profile.

How Personal Information Is Used
We use the personal information that you provide for such purposes as:

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
Access to your personal information is restricted to our employees and representatives, such as our data processing operations, and entities for whom we are acting as a licensee, and our affiliated group companies, for the purposes set forth above.
Please note that by agreeing to SIMID' Privacy Policy and providing your personally identifiable information you consent the use of your personal information by SIMID for the uses identified in Section titled "Personal Information" in accordance with this privacy policy and the transfer of your information to servers located in Switzerland.

Personal Information
SIMID collects certain personal information from users of this Web Site. To create user accounts, authorized users must provide certain contact and account information such as name, email address in order to access and download articles. SIMID may use certain account information to for the following purposes:

Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, SIMID does not sell, share or rent information about its customers to third parties for their marketing or promotional purposes.

Profile Information
Your profile information in the registration form is used by SIMID to create personalized content and services on the Web Site. SIMID may also profile your Web Site activity in order to accurately track your account and provide you with SIMID products and services that correspond to your interests. SIMID may also compile data in aggregate form so that we may better understand the users that are visiting our Web Site. For example, we may produce reports on the most popular search terms by collecting general search term data based on individual searches. SIMID may provide aggregate usage and volume statistical information from our Web Site users to third parties for their audit, research and analytical purposes.

Automatically Collected Information
As is true of most web sites, when you access and use the Web Site, we gather certain information automatically. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, operating system, date/time stamp. If you are logged into your user account, we are able to link this automatically collected data to such account, including sales history. IP addresses are tied to geographic information to segregate customer location for analytical purposes.

Security
SIMID has a number of operational functions in place to protect the confidentiality of personal information. We use SSL encryption technologies to transmit sensitive information such as a credit card number to our servers. However, perfect security on the Internet does not exist, and SIMID does not warrant that its Web Site is impenetrable or invulnerable to hackers.

Cookies
When you visit the Web Site, SIMID sends your computer a cookie, which is a small file that resides on your computer's hard drive and contains non-personally identifiable information about the user. Cookies only identify the user's computer. Cookies allow SIMID to make its Web Site more useful by storing information about your preferences. For example, SIMID will send your computer a cookie to maintain default settings. You can set your browser's options not to accept cookies, but this may prevent you from accessing all of the features of the SIMID Web Site.

Email
SIMID does not rent, share or sell email lists to third parties for their promotional purposes. SIMID may send you email to notify you about your recent order; this will be sent to the email address you provide to SIMID. SIMID offers its members the choice to not receive emails or updates about special benefits, promotions, or offers from SIMID. If you no longer wish to receive our promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication or by changing your account preferences.

Links
Please be aware that the Web Site may contain links to other sites that are covered by their own privacy policies. SIMID is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site. We recommend that our users read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Changes of SIMID' Online Privacy Policy
SIMID reserves the right to change our online privacy policy and modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we decide to make any material changes to our privacy statement, we will notify you via email or by posting a prominent notice on our Web Site including the home page and other places we deem appropriate, at least thirty (30) days prior to implementing the change so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.

Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with a legal process served on our Web Site. If you have any questions about SIMID' Privacy Policy or concerns about personal information you have supplied to SIMID, please contact SIMID Customer Service at info@simid.com