CEM Privacy Policy

We collect personal information about you in the following ways:

• Information you give us.
• Personal and business contact information, such as your first name, last name, postal address, email address, telephone number, and company name.
• Registration information, such as your username and password.
• Feedback and correspondence, such as information you provide in your responses to surveys and when you participate in market research activities, report a problem with the Sites, receive customer support or otherwise correspond with us.
• Usage information, such as information about how you use the Sites and interact with us;
• Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving marketing communications and details about how you engage with them.

We may combine other publicly available information, such as information related to the organization for which you work, with the personal/professional information that you provide to us. We may also collect information through the various other sources where you have shown an interest in our products or services.

We may automatically log information about you, your computer and, if applicable, your mobile device when you access our Sites. For example, we may log your computer or mobile devices’ operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, information relating to how the Services function, your general geographic location derived through your IP address (e.g., your city, country or metropolitan region), and the physical location of the device at the time of use, the Site you visited before browsing to our Sites, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our Sites. We collect this information about you using cookies. Please refer to the Cookies and Similar Technologies section for more details. To provide location-based features, CEM Corporation may collect, use, and disclose information about your general geographic location (e.g., your city, country or metropolitan region) information from Social Networking Sites. Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking Sites (each a “SNS”). If you connect to a SNS through our Site you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Notice. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

What are cookies?

We may collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.

We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other Sites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Disabling cookies

You can disable certain cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting:

• Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Consumer Opt-Out Page
• Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) WebChoices
• Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC) Consumer Choice (for Canadian users)
• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) Choice (for EU users)

If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see advertisements, but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed.

Disabling cookies

You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” section). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been saved on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Site.

Pixel tags

We may also use pixel tags (which are also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) on our Site to track the actions of users on our Site. Unlike cookies, which are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on webpages. Pixel tags measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Site, so that we can manage our content more effectively. The information we collect using pixel tags is not linked to our users’ personal data.

Do Not Track Signals

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send "Do Not Track" signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “do not track” signals. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

To provide our Services and operate our Sites

We use your personal information to:

• operate, maintain, administer, improve, and secure the Sites.
• study how the Sites are used and to improve the Sites and our other products and services.
• manage and communicate with you regarding your CEM account, if you have one, including sending you marketing and product information, technical notices, event information and support and administrative messages.
• better understand your needs, interests and personalize your experience with the Sites.
• provide support and maintenance for the Sites and our products and services.
• respond to your product-related requests, questions and feedback.

To communicate with you

If you request information from us, register on the Sites, or participate in our surveys, promotions or events, we will provide any requested information and may send you CEM-related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt out of such communications.

To comply with law

We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

With your consent

We may use or share your personal information with your consent, such as when you consent to let us post your testimonials or endorsements on our Sites, you instruct us to take a specific action with respect to your personal information, or you opt into third party marketing communications.

To create anonymous data for analytics

We may create anonymous data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by excluding information that makes the data personally identifiable to you and use that anonymous data for our lawful business purposes.

For compliance, fraud prevention and safety

We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Products/Services; (b) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share the personal information that you provide to us with other organizations. We disclose personal information to third parties under the following circumstances:

• Affiliates: We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• Service Providers: We may employ third party companies and individuals to administer and provide the Services on our behalf (such as customer support, hosting, email delivery and financial services). These third parties may use your information only as directed by CEM Corporation and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.
• Professional advisors: We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary during the professional services that they render to us.
• Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement; Protection and Safety:CEM Corporation may disclose information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as required by law, and disclose and use such information as we believe necessary or appropriate to (a) comply with applicable laws and lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the use of our products, services and websites; (d) protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (e) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
• Business Transfers: CEM Corporation may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business deal (or potential business deal) such as a merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy, in which case we will make all reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy.

Access, Update or Correct Your Information

You may contact usat privacy@cem.com to review, update or correct the personal information CEM Corporation maintains about you in connection with your use of the Sites.

Marketing communications

You may opt out of marketing-related emails by clicking on a link at the bottom of each such email, or by contacting us at privacy@cem.com. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

Testimonials

If you gave us consent to post a testimonial on our Sites, but wish to update or delete it, please contact us at marketing@cem.com.

CEM Corporation is headquartered in the United States and has affiliates, distributors and service providers in other countries and your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.

Whenever we transfer your personal information to countries not deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of personal information protection, the transfer will be based on one of the following safeguards recognized by the European Commission as providing adequate protection for personal information, where required by EU data protection legislation:

• Contracts approved by the European Commission which impose data protection obligations on the parties to the transfer. For further details, see European Commission Model contracts for the transfer of personal information to third countries.
• For transfers to recipients in the United States, ensuring they participate in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.

CEM Corporations’ Sites may contain links to other websites and services. These links are not an endorsement, authorization or representation that we are affiliated with that third party. We do not exercise control over third party websites or services and are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites you visit and services you use.

We may make available on our Sites, or link to, features that allow you to share information online (e.g., on message boards, in chat areas, in file uploads, through events, etc.). Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, that information becomes public and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over, and take no responsibility for, the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly-disclosed personal information. By posting personal information online in public forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy. You will be notified via e-mail (where we have your contact information) or another manner through the Services that we believe reasonably likely to reach you (which may include posting a new privacy policy or a specific announcement on our Sites). Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting of the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Service (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Sites or Services after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.