Terms and Conditions and PRIVACY POLICY

GL SCIENCES, WEB SITE TERMS OF USE AND LEGAL RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEB SITE. USING THIS WEB SITE INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS ("TERMS"), DO NOT USE THIS WEB SITE.

Privacy Policy:  In plain non-legal US english, GL Sciences will never use any personal information about you except to contact you from time to time by email or, in rare cases, by phone, unless you ask us not to contact you, in which case we will not contact you again.  "Personal Information" about you is limited to your name, the mailing address you provide to us, your email address, and any other information that you provide to us, typically restricted to sending you mail or emails of a promotional nature or in response to a technical or other question from you.  Should you become a customer of GL Sciences, any information provided by you to us (credit card numbers, for example) is NOT stored on this website.  In fact, GL Sciences does NOT store any personal information, whether or not they are customers of GL Sciences on its website(s). 

For the attorneys among you, we provide the following to satisfy your lawyerly needs:

GL Sciences adheres to the European Union Safe Harbor principles as set forth by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information covered by the Privacy Policy from the European Union.

The Site and the Products and Services are intended for adult audiences, and GL Sciences does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Changes in Privacy Policy

All personal information ("personal information" is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify the person to whom such information pertains) that we collect and maintain will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time. GL Sciences may change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion and will provide notice of changes in the Privacy Policy and on the home page of GL Sciences. If as the result of such changes you want to alter the ways in which GL Sciences is allowed to use your personal information, you can do so by following the procedure described in the section entitled “Updating your personal information and privacy preferences.” You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy Policy after such notice has been posted with the following exception: if at the time you provide personal information to GL Sciences you limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by GL Sciences or by third parties, GL Sciences will not change your preference in this regard without your express consent. However, if GL Sciences sells assets (or the assets of a division or subsidiary) to another entity, or GL Sciences (or a division or subsidiary) is acquired by or merged with another entity, you agree that GL Sciences may provide to such entity customer information that is related to that part of our business that was sold to or merged with the other entity without obtaining your further consent, but GL Sciences will provide notice of such asset sales, acquisitions, or mergers on this Site.

Entities collecting personal information

Personal information may be collected on behalf of GL Sciencesby GL Sciences, who is responsible for this site. The Site contains links to other sites at which personal information is collected. In such instances, unless expressly provided to the contrary, the collection and use of your personal information will be governed by the privacy policy applicable to that site. That privacy policy should identify the entity that is collecting your personal information.

You have the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences at any time.

Personal information submitted through this Site or in connection with the Products and Servicesthat is not Registration Information is not accessible online. To access and/or correct such information and privacy preferences (such as whether you wish to receive promotional communications), you may write GL Sciences.

In your correspondence, please indicate with as much detail as possible the location on this Site or otherwise where you provided your personal information. You may expect a response within 30 days.For information submitted in connection with Products and Services, you may also follow instructions included or referenced within such Product and Service to access or correct the information.

Collection of personal information

As a visitor to this Site, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information. In connection with other activities, such as utilizing online or hosted Products and Services, GL Sciences may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting a form. It is optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, GL Sciences may ask that you provide personal information, such as your first and last name, mailing address (including ZIP code), country of residence, e-mail address, employer, job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal information. When ordering Products and Services via the Site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity. Similarly, if you wish to delete your information (pursuant to the mechanism set forth in “Updating your personal information and privacy preferences”) that is mandatory, you will no longer be able to engage in a particular activity.

When you use the Site and the Products and Services, GL Sciences may also collect certain information about your computer to facilitate and evaluate your use of the Site and the Products and Services. For example, we may log environmental variables, such as browser type, operating system, CPU speed, referring or exit webpages, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer. GL Sciences also uses such information to measure traffic patterns on the Site and usage of the Products and Services. We do not match such information with any other information held by GL Sciences unless we have your consent.

By using this Site and the Products and Services, you agree and acknowledge that personal information collected through the Site or in connection with the Products and Services may be transferred across national boundaries and stored and processed in any of the countries around the world in which GL Sciences maintains offices, including the United States. You also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to certain activities, the collection, transfer, storage, and processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted third parties. Such third parties are bound by contract with GL Sciences not to use your personal information for their own purposes or provide it to any third parties. One instance where this could occur is in conjunction with framed pages in which the URL for the pages is not visible, and the pages are hosted for GL Sciences by such third parties. For example, on the sign up pages for some newsletters, the pages may be hosted by a third party vendor, but appear to be GL Sciences pages and are governed by the GL Sciences privacy policy.

GL Sciences has established relationships with various service providers whose services are available to you from the Site, from websites that are linked to the Site, or in connection with the Products and Services. Typically, these providers offer services that GL Sciences customers might find useful, such as those that can be used in conjunction with Products and Services. In order to use those providers’ services, you may be required to provide personal information to the providers. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, personal information that you provide while you are visiting a provider's website will be subject to the privacy policy posted on that site, and personal information that you provide while on the Site will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

In order to reduce errors in our database, authenticate our users, prevent abuse of our Site and the Products and Services, and provide more consistent, relevant experiences to our users, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submit to us with information from third-party sources. For example, if permitted under applicable law, we may supplement your Registration Information with address information provided by the U.S. Postal Service to qualify your information and prevent errors in our database. As permissible, we may also supplement the information you provide to us with demographic and other information (such as age or interest in photography) stored in third-party databases in order to make it more likely that marketing communications we send will be of interest to you.

How your personal information is used

GL Sciences collects your information in order to record, support and facilitate your participation in the activities you select. If you subscribe to or register for Products and Services, for example, the information is used to register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users. As another example, if you enter a contest, information is collected to qualify the entry and to contact you regarding the contest or prize awards. Your personal information is also used to track customer preferences and keep you informed about product upgrades, special offers, and other products and services of GL Sciences and selected third parties unless you have opted not to receive such communications or such communications are prohibited by law.

GL Sciences may collect information about the use of the Products and Services and the Site, such as the number of downloads, types of Services used, how many users we receive daily, and the IP/Internet address of your computer. This information is collected in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually.

GL Sciences may use this aggregate, nonidentifying statistical data for improving the Site and the Products and Services, providing more relevant experiences to our customers and for statistical analysis.

Certain Products and Services may require you to use the most current version of such Product and Service or are offered in conjunction with other Products and Services, which you may or may not have already downloaded. The Product and Service may automatically check to determine if you are using the most current version or have other Products and Services and through e-mail messages, pop-up boxes or similar mechanisms inform you if need to upgrade in order to use the Product and Service you have requested. During this process, an IP address identifying your computer and the Product and Service version may be sent to a Web server, but system profile information is not transmitted nor are cookies used to store information.

Your choices with respect to personal information

GL Sciences recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on the Site and in connection with the Products and Services. GL Sciences will respect your legal rights regarding access to and correction and deletion of your personal information. GL Sciences may communicate information to you regarding products, services, and special offers available from GL Sciences, or selected third parties unless you have opted not to receive such communications or such communications are prohibited by law, although we may find it necessary to continue to communicate with you regarding your use of the Site and the Products and Services. Except in the particular circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, GL Sciences will not provide your name to other companies or organizations without your consent (and even with your consent, we are loathe to divulge your personal information to anyone)

There are other instances in which GL Sciences may divulge your personal information, such as where required by law, regulation, or litigation. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that such disclosure should be made for reasons of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.

Protection of your personal information

The personal information that you provide in connection with registering yourself as a user of the Site or of the Products and Services is classified as Registration Information. Registration Information is protected in several ways. Access by you to your Registration Information is available through a password and unique customer ID selected by you. This password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. In addition, your Registration Information resides on secure servers that only selected GL Sciences personnel and contractors have access to via password. GL Sciences encrypts your personal information and thereby strives to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to GL Sciences.

Personal information that you provide that does not constitute Registration Information also resides on secure servers and is accessible only to selected GL Sciences personnel and contractors via password. Since this information is not accessible online by you, you will not be asked to select a password in order to view or modify such information.

Please note that any information you post to a public bulletin board, blog or chat room, such as the GL SciencesUser to User Forums (the "Forums"), is available to all persons accessing that location, and your e-mail address may also be posted on these venues. The information you share, including your email address, would then be available to all persons accessing these venues, and such information may be read, collected or used by others for any purpose, including sending you unsolicited messages. GL Sciences is not responsible for any information you elect to submit in these venues or the use of such information. In addition, you should be aware that the Forums offer a service in which subscribers are e-mailed a copy of all messages posted to the Forums on a particular topic. Consequently, if you post a message to the Forums, your e-mail address will be sent to those subscribers who have indicated an interest in the topic of your message.

Tracking, use of cookies, web beacons and similar devices

In order to improve our Products and Services and the Site and provide more convenient, relevant experiences to our customers, we "cookies" and similar devices to track your use of our website. A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. It functions as your identification card and enables GL Sciences to record information that you provide to us through our website(s). It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.

While GL Sciences uses cookies and similar devices to track your use of the Site and the Products and Services, such as the number of downloads, types of Products and Services used and downloaded, how many users we receive daily, and our web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, GL Sciences does not generally use this information to identify you personally. However, if you expressly provide consent for the Site or the Product and Service to "remember" the unique identifier that you select when you register for various activities on the Site or the Products and Services, that unique identifier will be stored on a cookie on your computer and that unique identifier will be linked to your Registration Information. As a result, your navigation path around the Site and the Products and Services will be tracked.

Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, and it is your choice as to whether or not to allow your browser to accept cookies. We are not aware of any information currently residing on our websites that would become unavailable in the event that you do not accept cookies.

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User Submissions: Any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this Site, including but not limited to customer comments or testimonials,  will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary ("Communications"). GL Sciences will have no obligations with respect to the Communications. By submitting Communications to GL Sciences you represent and warrant that you have the full rights and authority to submit such Communications, and that none of such Communications are subject to any copyright or other proprietary right of a third party.  You hereby grant GL Sciences and its designees a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, you are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law. You hereby grant GL Sciences and its designees a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute and sub-license the Communications (and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein) submitted by you to this Site and/or to incorporate it in other works regardless of form, medium or technology for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law. User Chat Rooms: GL Sciences may, but is not obligated to, monitor or review any areas on the Site where users transmit or post Communications or communicate solely with each other, including but not limited to chat rooms, bulletin boards or other user forums, and the content of any such Communications. Your participation in on-line communications occurs in real-time and is not edited, censored, or otherwise controlled by us. Further, we cannot and do not screen content provided by users of this Site. GL Sciences, however, will have no liability related to the content of any such Communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. You agree, however, that we have the right to monitor this Site electronically from time to time to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation, or other governmental request, to operate our services properly, or to protect ourselves or our subscribers. Links To Other Web Sites: Links to third party Web sites on this Site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. GL Sciences has not reviewed these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. GL Sciences does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this Site, you do this entirely at your own risk. Disclaimer: THE MATERIALS PROVIDED AT THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR THOSE ARISING BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE IN LAW OR FROM THE COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. GL Sciences further does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the materials at this Site. GL Sciences may make changes to the materials at this Site, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice. The materials at this Site may be out of date, and GL Sciences makes no commitment to update the materials at this Site. Information published at this Site may refer to products, programs or services that are not available in your country. Consult your local GL Sciences business contact for information regarding the products, programs and services that may be available to you. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of some or all implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

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Revised: August, 2007

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