AbiTeq Marketing:

Privacy Policy

Information Collection & Use

ABITEQ LLC INC. is the sole owner of the information collected on AbiTeq.com.

Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information such as name, email, and shipping address.

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

We may use this information to send you promotional emails or our email newsletters unless you request not to receive this information.

Surveys or Contests

From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We may use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic to personalize the site, and to send participants an email newsletter or promotion.

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company is prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

Uses of Information

We use personal information to help better communicate with you, and to provide better service for you. Generally, it shows your previous involvement with AbiTeq LLC Inc.

We use aggregate information that does not identify individuals to judge the effectiveness of website pages and promotions.

Special Offers and Updates

We may occasionally send you information on our products and services.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

Profile

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored marketing offers and to improve the content of our communications with you.

We share your profile in aggregate form only.

Supplementation of Information

In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.

Agents

We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.

Choice/Opt-out

We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.

If you no longer wish to receive our promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at .

Log Files

As is true of most Websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We link this automatically-collected data to company identification information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to list the institutions using our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We may use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We may use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

We may set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as shopping, contests or surveys, will be limited.

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by AbiTeq.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Clear Gifs

We occasionally use a software technology called clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Links to Other Sites

This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by AbiTeq LLC Inc. Please be aware that we, AbiTeq LLC, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Website.

Forums, Conferences, Messages, Mail & Chat

If you use a Forums, Conferences, Messages, Mail & Chat services on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by invited colleagues and organizations, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages outside of Science Tribes.

We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these services. Critical information should never be placed on this site in any form. The internet is not a totally secure environment.

Business Transitions

In the event AbiTeq LLC Inc. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Website for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: AbiTeq LLC, Phone: (602) 334-5172 (customer service) or e-mail us at