We have therefore established a Privacy Policy so that you understand how we treat your Personal Information.

Personal Information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, first and last names, physical addresses, e mail addresses or other contact information, whether at work or at home. In general, you can visit our web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself, although we do ask for this information if you request more detailed proprietary information. We do not hold information regarding race or ethnic origin, personal health or sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or trade union membership.

If you choose to provide us with your Personal Information, we may transfer that information within our company, across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. In certain circumstances we may share this information with trusted partners, but only ever in direct relation to our own business. We do not provide any information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We do strive to comply with all applicable laws that are designed to protect your privacy in each jurisdiction that we operate. Legal requirements do of course vary from country to country, so we undertake to adhere to these principles even if certain countries may not require similar levels of protection for your Personal Information.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We sometimes use "cookies" and other similar technologies. A "cookie", for instance, is a small text file that may be used, to collect information about web site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a web user such as name or a chosen user-id or password relevant to our site. You Internet browser program allows you to control these cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set parameters in your browser to notify you if you receive a cookie or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of a web site.

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser software and operating system types, click-stream patterns, and dates and times that our site is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our web site and your web experience. We may also analyze aggregated information for trends and statistics.

To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:

Advice

When we collect Personal Information on the web, we intend to post a purpose statement that explains why Personal Information will be collected and whether we plan to share such Personal Information outside of our company or those working on our behalf, for example where a partner may be directly involved in providing support to our business for a specific purpose. We will not transfer Personal Information without your consent unless such transfer is legally required.

Choice

You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to us. The Advice notice we provide when we collect Personal Information on the web should help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit most of our web site, but you may be unable to access certain options.

Security

Wherever your Personal Information may be held by us, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information from unauthorized access or disclosure.

Access / Accuracy

Naturally we wish to maintain accurate Personal Information. Where we collect Personal Information from you, we provide you with a means of contacting us should you need to update or correct that Information. For that purpose you may send any corrections or advice about your Personal Information to accountmanager@appligenics.com, and we will make all reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in the Personal Information that we hold.

Third Parties

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that third party service providers are obligated to protect Personal Information on our behalf in the same way that we would protect it.

We shall not transfer Personal Information without your consent to third parties unless such transfer is legally required. Similarly, it is against our policy to sell Personal Information collected.

If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at accountmanager@appligenics.com.

Your Consent

By using our web site, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and to our processing of Personal Information for the purposes set out in specific cases or in general.

Use of Contact Details in Sales or Marketing

Appligenics like most companies maintains lists of both customers and prospective customers. From time to time we augment this information through the licensing of contact details from other companies whose business it is to maintain sales contact lists. We only deal with reputable companies, and we comply fully with any restrictions or limitations imposed upon us.

We will honor all requests for your Personal Information to be removed from our records, although to comply with recent legislation we are required to positively identify individuals who do not wish to be contacted and therefore must keep those details in order to remain within the law. In the event that we obtained your details from a third party supplier, then we will notify the supplier of your request.

Maurice Spillane
Chief Executive
November 2003