Collection of your Personal Information

 

As an E-commerce Web site, GIGOPTICS, INC. collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Information collected by GIGOPTICS, INC. is used solely for the purpose of billing and shipping your online purchases. GIGOPTICS, INC. does not collect any information about your computer hardware and software. 

GIGOPTICS, INC. encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from GIGOPTICS, INC. so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the GIGOPTICS, INC. Web site.

 

Use of your Personal Information

 

GIGOPTICS, INC. and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to process product orders and deliver the products requested. It is possible that GIGOPTICS, INC. may also use personal information to inform you of other products or services available. GIGOPTICS, INC. may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. GIGOPTICS, INC. does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. GIGOPTICS, INC. may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. 

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. 

GIGOPTICS, INC. may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on GIGOPTICS, INC. or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of GIGOPTICS, INC., including its Web site; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of GIGOPTICS, INC. or the public. 

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which GIGOPTICS, INC. or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. GIGOPTICS, INC. abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

 

Security of your Personal Information

 

GIGOPTICS, INC. is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through 128 bit encryption using SSL.

 

Communications to GIGOPTICS, INC.

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Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post may be used by GIGOPTICS, INC. for any purpose, including but not limited to reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting. Furthermore, GIGOPTICS, INC. is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to GIGOPTICS, INC. or the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.

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Changes to this Statement

 

GIGOPTICS, INC. will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how GIGOPTICS, INC. will use your personal information, GIGOPTICS, INC. will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. GIGOPTICS, INC. encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how GIGOPTICS, INC. is protecting your information.