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Effective Date: September 15, 2005
AMS is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy describes our practices regarding personal
and account information collected through our Web site. In this policy, personal and account
information means your name, company name, account number, address, telephone number,
and e-mail address plus any other information that personally identifies you, including your
industry, the number of employees at your company, and purchase history, or would permit us to
contact you, and we and us means AMS.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time; the effective date noted above
will indicate the date that this policy was last updated. You should visit our Web site
periodically to review any changes.
How much information must I share?
The amount and type of information we collect from you depends on your activities and use of
our Web site. Below, we explain what information we collect.
When you browse our Web site
- We collect your IP address to measure our Web site traffic and to help provide a relevant shopping experience.
- Referral Web site. If you come to our Web site via a link, we collect the location of the link that referred you.
- Browser type. We collect information about the browser you are using to help optimize our Web site for visitors.
- Movements through our Web site. We keep track of pages you visit to help provide you with a more personalized shopping experience.
When you make purchases through our Web site
- We collect your name, address and payment information to process your order. However, you may provide credit card and purchase order numbers by telephone.
- We collect information contained in cookies, such as your purchases and log in data, to personalize your shopping experience. Your browser must be set
to accept cookies if you wish to add items to a shopping cart.
When you create an E-Account on our Web site
- We collect your user name, password, e-mail address, date of birth,
to protect your E-Account. We use your date of birth to identify you as the account user
if you have forgotten your password. You can help us ensure your privacy by not sharing
your user name or password.
Is my personal or account information used for any other purpose?
We may use your personal and account information to provide products or services you have requested,
respond to a communication from you, contact you, and as otherwise described in this policy.
We may occasionally send you promotional or product information. If you do not wish to receive
promotional or product information, you may opt out of future communications by following the
instructions in the e-mail communication or contacting your account manager.
We may also analyze and act upon your personal and account information as part of our standard business
practices. We occasionally purchase from third parties commercial information such as company size,
number of employees and annual sales of other companies. We may use this commercial information along
with your personal and account information to customize our offerings to you, as well as for our
internal use.
Will my personal and account information be provided to any other party?
We restrict access to your personal and account information to those who need access to use
it as set forth in this policy. Only authorized personnel are permitted to see your
E-Account password. Your other personal and account information will not be disclosed
to third parties in any circumstances.
How do you protect my personal and account information?
We use 128-bit encryption technology and Secure Socket Layers (SSL) in all areas
where your personal and account information is required.
Our Web site is certified by VeriSign,
which verifies that our Web site is authentic and that we use SSL security.
To view our VeriSign certificate, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key
at the bottom of your browser window. Our Web site security information will appear.
In addition, your personal and account information and transaction history are kept behind our firewall
on separate servers. All transaction information is processed under encrypted channels,
although you may choose unencrypted processing.
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