INTRODUCTION

PI Hydrographics is committed to helping you make the most of your time on our family of websites. A large part of helping you do this is by providing you a trusted environment where your privacy is maintained and your personal information is kept secured. The following privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, use, and share information gathered about you from one of our family of web sites. We hope this disclosure will help increase your confidence in our website, products, and PI Hydrographics.


Personal Information

In general, you can visit PI Hydrographics on the Internet without telling us who you are and without giving any personal information about yourself. There are times, however, when we or our partners may need information from you. You may choose to give us personal information in a variety of situations. For example, you may want to give us information, such as your name and address or e-mail id, to correspond with you, to process an order, or to provide you with a subscription. You may give us your credit card details to buy something from us or a description of your education and work experience in connection with a job opening at PI Hydrographics that you wish to be considered for. We intend to let you know how we will use such information before we collect it from you; if you tell us that you do not want us to use this information to make further contact with you beyond fulfilling your requests, we will respect your wishes. If you give us personal information about somebody else, such as a spouse or work colleague, we will assume that you have their permission to do so.

Using and Sharing Personal Info

The following paragraphs describe in more detail how PI Hydrographics may use your personal information and with whom we may share it. One or more of the paragraphs may apply. For example, if you order a product from a PI Hydrographics Web site, your information will be handled as described in such paragraphs as Fulfilling Your Transaction Request and Marketing Use.

Fulfilling Your Transaction Request

If you request something from a PI Hydrographics Web site, for example, a product, we will use the information you provide to fulfill your request. To help us do this, we may share information, with others, for instance, other parts of PI Hydrographics, PI Hydrographics Business Partners, financial institutions, shipping companies, postal or government authorities.

Marketing Use

The information you provide to PI Hydrographics will not be used for marketing purposes. Information Security and Quality PI Hydrographics intends to make every effort to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information. We implement the highest and most secure technical and organizational measures, such as encryption methodologies, to help us maintain your information securely and accurately. Safe and Secure Shopping Guarantees PI Hydrographics’s security and technology practices meet the highest security standards of the U.S. Government, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover Card.

Cookies, Web Beacons, and other Technologies

We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to our Web sites to help us provide better customer service. For example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit, and we also measure visitor activity on PI Hydrographics Web sites, but we do so in ways that keep the information non-identifiable. This anonymous information is sometimes known as “clickstream data”. PI Hydrographics or others (on PI Hydrographics’s behalf) may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service. Also, when we collect personal data from you in a transaction, we may extract some information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed, at an aggregate level only, to help us understand trends and patterns about our website. This information is not reviewed at an individual level. If you do not want your transaction details used in this manner you can disable your cookies. We collect the information we mentioned in the previous paragraphs through the use of various technologies, including one called “cookies”. A cookie is a piece of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer but not you. Some PI Hydrographics pages use cookies, sent by PI Hydrographics, or other technologies to better serve you when you return to the Web site. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, our web sites may not work properly. Some PI Hydrographics Web sites also use Web beacons or other technologies to better tailor those sites to provide better customer service. These technologies may be in use on a number of pages across PI Hydrographics Web sites. When a visitor accesses these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers. These Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you do not want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off cookies. If you turn off cookies, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.

Disclosures Required by Law

Under certain circumstances, it is possible that personal information may be subject to disclosure pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders.

Privacy Technology

Technology will increasingly help give you more control over your personal information. It will also help organizations to manage their privacy practices and policies. PI Hydrographics supports the development of privacy technologies to help achieve goals that create greater trust and confidence in the way personal information is handled.

Links to Non PI Hydrographics Websites

PI Hydrographics Web sites may contain links to other Web sites. PI Hydrographics is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites.

Notification of Change

This privacy statement was last updated on April 15th, 2009. Our privacy statement may change at any time so please review this policy as frequently as needed.

Privacy Questions

If you have a question about this statement or you would like to modify your personal information, you can send an email to the PI Hydrographics Web site coordinator. The address for this is [email protected]. You can also Contact at this address if you have a question about PI Hydrographics handling of your information.