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Our Commitment to Privacy
LGS recognizes that individuals who represent companies with whom we conduct
business value their privacy. However, in order to conduct global
business in this increasing electronic economy, the collection of the personal
information of individuals is often necessary. We respect your right to
privacy and are committed to protecting your personally identifiable
information. It is our goal to balance the benefits of e-commerce with
the right of individuals to prevent the misuse of their personal
information.
LGS strives to comply with all applicable and known laws around the world
that are designed to protect your policy. Although legal requirement may
vary from country to country, we intend to adhere to the principles set forth
in this Privacy Statement even if we transfer your information from your
country of residence to countries that may not require the same level of
protection for your information. Our commitment is to protect your
information no matter where it is collected, transported, or retained.
Websites Covered By Our Privacy Statement
This LGS Privacy Statement applies to all websites and domains of LGS
(lgsinnovations.com) and its wholly owned subsidiaries. The LGS websites
may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and
information. However, LGS does not control those third-party websites or
their privacy policies or practices.
Collecting Your Information
Personally identifiable information means any information that may be used
to identify an individual. This includes, but is not limited to, an
individual’s first and last name, email address, mailing and residential
addresses, telephone number, tilt, birth date, gender, occupation, company of
employment and/or other information required in order for us to provide a
service you request at our websites.
You browse our websites anonymously unless you have previously indicated
that you wish LGS to remember your login identification and/or password, if
any. In some circumstances, we may request you to provide personally
identifiable information. Your response to such a request is strictly
voluntary. LGS uses this information to customize your experience on our
websites. We may also use your information for other business purposes,
such as alerting you to products and services that can assist you in your
business, promoting site registration, order processing and on-line customer
service.
When you visit certain LGS web pages, you may need to be registered and a
password in order to login. The use of those web pages, and the
downloadable information on such web pages, may be governed by a written
agreement between your employer and LGS. Unless you request your
personally identifiable information to be deleted, it may be retained by LGS to
verify compliance with the agreement, to track software and documents you
download, or track page visits and usage of other applications available on the
LGS web sites.
We may also receive your personally identifiable information from our
business partners and suppliers. We only use such information if it has
been collected in accordance with acceptable privacy practices consistent with
the LGS privacy policy and applicable laws.
In general, you can visit our websites without divulging any personally
identifiable information. However, there are areas of our websites that
require this information to complete the customization functions for which they
are designed, and may not be available to those individuals who elect not to
provide the information requested. You are always welcome to visit the
public portion of the LGS websites without revealing any personally
identifiable information.
Use of Your Information
When we collect your personally identifiable information form you, we will
inform you at the time as to the reason we are requesting such
information. The information will only be used for LGS business purposes
such as, to respond to requests for products, documentation and/or services, to
process an order, to conduct a transaction, to correspond with you, to enable a
subscription or event registration, to handle a job application or send direct
marketing information and/or perform market research. We will also use
your information to personalize the content you review and to better understand
how you use the websites in order to improve the services LGS provides.
Upon your acceptance of the Terms of Use, which this Privacy Statement is a
part, LGS will assume that you have given your permission to us to collect and
use your information. However, you have the right to request LGS to not
contact you for the purposes of sending you newsletters, customer surveys,
direct marketing materials and/or market research information. You can
exercise this right by clicking on the appropriate option or check box at the
point where the information is collected or by editing your personal
profile.
In specific cases, LGS may request your direct consent to use your
personally identifiable information by providing an “opt-in” check box in
information fields before your information can be used for any purpose other
than that for which it was given.
Disclosure of Your Information to Third Parties
LGS may share your information (with the exception of account, credit card,
and ordering information) with LGS business partners who may alert you to new
products and services to improve your competitive edge, in cases where we
believe your business interests will be served. LGS will only share your
personally identifiable information with its business partners if you have
provided us with your consent to do so. If you do not want to receive
marketing materials from any of our business partners, please do not provide
contact information via the Internet or let them know directly that you wish to
be removed from their contact list.
In addition, LGS works with certain companies to deliver LGS advertising and
undertake surveys. These companies may collect information to help us
determine which products, services and offers are of most interest to our
current and future customers. The information that is collected is not
identifiable at an individual or company level. It is aggregated at an
anonymous level to provide us with general statistics and trends.
In the event that LGS sells a part or parts of its business, the personally
identifiable information that we have collected could be transferred to the
acquiring company unless you instruct LGS not to do so in writing.
If you elect to provide us with personally identifiable information, we may
transfer that information to LGS business partners, across borders and from
your country of residence or jurisdiction to other countries around the
world.
Collecting Your Domain Information
LGS may also collect domain information as a part of our analysis of the use
of our websites. This data enables us to become more familiar with which
customers visit our websites and pages, how often they visit, and what parts of
the websites they visit most often. LGS uses this information to improve
our web-based offerings. This information is collected automatically and
requires no action on your part.
Collecting Your Information Through Cookies
Some pages on our websites use “cookies,” which are small files that are
placed on your hard drive by the website for identification purposes.
These files are used for site registration and customization the next time you
visit us. It identifies you to a website when you revisit to load your
preferences and track the pages you visit. If your browser is set up to
automatically accept cookies then your browser will add this text in a small
file to your hard drive. Most web browsers allow you to modify the way
cookies are handled. You can refuse cookies or choose to be warned when
receiving a cookie in order to be given a choice to accept or reject a
cookie. By not accepting cookies, you may have to manually input user IDs
and passwords to access certain information on this website, and some pages may
not fully function. Please note the only information held in a cookie is
information you have provided to LGS.
Securing Your Information
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial
procedures to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure
correct use of information and to safeguard and secure your information we
collect online.
Please take note of the following to ensure information security:
- You should be aware that when you disclose personally identifiable
information in the discussion forum or chat rooms, such information is
accessible to and collectable by others present.
- LGS advises you to protect yourself against unauthorized access to your
computer and disclosure of your LGS password. If you believe that your
password has been compromised, you should immediately change your
password.
Supporting Children’s Privacy
The LGS websites do not target, and are not intended to attract, children
under the age of 13. LGS does not knowingly collect personally
identifiable information from children under the age of 13 send requests to
children for personally identifiable information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
LGS acts to ensure that any personally identifiable information you provide
remains accurate. If you have changes to your personally identifiable
information, you can review and update your information after logging onto the
website with your user name and password. You can correct errors in your
personally identifiable information by sending us a request and pointing out
the error. To protect your privacy and secure your information, we will
also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or
making the corrections.
Contacting Us
We value your opinions and feedback. If you have any questions or
comments about our privacy policy, please send them to:
LGS
Legal Department
8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 400
Vienna, Virginia 22182
Changing Our Privacy Statement
This LGS Privacy Statement was last updated on January 2, 2007.
LGS reserves the right to make changes to this policy from time to time
without notice to you. We recommend that all visitors and users of this
website re-visit this Privacy Statement page occasionally to learn of any new
privacy practices or changes to our policy. Your continued use of the LGS
websites indicates your acceptance of any changes to this Privacy
Statement.
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