Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to us. We hope the following statement will help you understand how ORCON Corporation collects, uses and safeguards data you provide us across the Internet.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should contact ORCON by email at privacy@orcon.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your concerns have not been addressed to your satisfaction, please contact ORCON s Executive offices at 800 227-0505 and ask for our Chief Financial Officer. Our CFO is responsible for privacy inquiries.

Data we collect from you

Currently ORCON only collects personal data as a Web user enters the Distributor Locator section of our Floor Covering Installation Systems Division (FCISD) site. You are asked to supply contact information (name, address, phone number, email address), your occupation or professional interest in our products, and any comments you wish to provide. You are free to supply as little or as much of the requested data as you feel is appropriate and may leave the form blank altogether if you so desire. Click the "submit" button to continue to the Locator.

ORCON may also collect data about your computer hardware and software. This data can include your IP (Internet Protocol) address, browser type, ISP (Internet Service Provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses.

How we use your data

The data collected as people enter the FCISD Distributor Locator is given to our Marketing Department for action and stored in a database of people accessing the site for historical purposes. We use the database primarily to answer your questions, and strictly limit its use to internal purposes only by our FCISD group. The data is not used to supply addresses for promotional mailings or for other contact outside your initial inquiry, and is not shared with any company, association, agency or individual outside of ORCON Corporation.

ORCON does not sell, lease or rent any personally identifiable data provided by you to any third parties.

Technical data collected by our Web server about your visit is used to administer our Web site, to detect problems with our equipment, improve and maintain the quality of our Web site, and potentially track traffic patterns on the site. We neither track nor analyze data based on domain name or MIME information.

ORCON may disclose your personally identifiable data, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on ORCON Corporation,
Protect and defend the rights or property of ORCON Corporation, or
Protect and defend the personal safety of users of ORCON s Web site(s).

Cookies

ORCON Corporation does not use "cookies" and does not store any data or information either temporarily or permanently on your computer.

Log files

ORCON Corporation uses rudimentary log files built from activity on our Web server and firewall in accordance with generally accepted industry practices. As listed earlier, technical data collected may include a description of the browser you are using to connect to ORCON s site, your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (Internet Service Provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. Data are used to analyze trends, administer the site, and track user s movement in the aggregate. We cannot currently collect demographic data in our Web server log. IP address and the like are not linked to personally identifiable data.

Security measures

Effective data security and privacy are primary tasks of ORCON s Information Technologies department. That emphasis is carried along with any use of data collected through our Web site or by email.

The "orcon.com" domain utilizes a Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") that employs encryption to mask and protect the privacy of personally identifiable data being passed to the company. The Distributor Locator inquiry page is protected by this encryption, further protecting the privacy of the contact information you key there. Our certification may be verified through Thawte:

Our Web site is protected from outside access by a robust firewall, and personally identifiable data is stored in a secured location with closely controlled limited access from both within and outside our company network.

Links to other Web sites

ORCON Corporation may provide links to the Web sites of associated companies, associations, agencies and other links of interest as part of the content of our site. ORCON does not provide Web services for sites other than our own and is not responsible for the content or operation of those sites or for the collection and/or use of data collected while visiting those sites. If you have any questions regarding the content or privacy practices of those organizations, please review their respective privacy policies or contact them directly. You may also send an email to privacy@orcon.com for assistance.

Changing or removing data

If you would like to change or remove any information you have provided over the Internet, please send an email to privacy@orcon.com with your specific request. We will take action as soon as practical after receiving your request.

Questions regarding our privacy policy

If you have any questions or comments concerning ORCON Corporation s privacy policy, please send an email to privacy@orcon.com.

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time. Users may review updates to ORCON s Privacy Policy at any time through links on our Web site at www.orcon.com.

If we intend to use your personally identifiable data in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will attempt to notify you. Our preferred method of notification will be through your email address, if provided, then by mail or phone if you have provided either information. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your data in this different manner. If we cannot contact you we will err on the conservative side, and exclude your data from the new useage.

If we make a material change in our privacy practices that does not affect data already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying you of the change. We may, at our discretion, additionally send an email describing the change to those in the database.

Updated March 26, 2004