Internet Privacy Statement

Welcome to the The Vickers Company Internet website. At The Vickers Company, we strive to earn your continued respect and trust every day. We want you to understand how we collect, use, and protect the confidentiality of personal information. This statement pertains to information collected from you via this website (www.vickerscompany.com). You may receive other privacy notices from The Vickers Company, its affiliates, or its subsidiaries from time to time related to privacy and confidentiality of personal information, and such privacy notices may govern the treatment of information collected via this website as well.

Collecting and Using Personal Information

When you visit and navigate our website, and when you communicate with us via our site, we may collect personal information about you. By "personal information," we mean information that is unique to an individual and by which the individual may be identified, such as name and address that is associated directly with an individual. This information is collected in order to provide benefits and services to you and to continue to improve and enhance our service offerings. This information may include, but is not limited to, that which you provide voluntarily through your interactions with the site, as well as information about how you use and navigate through the site.

We will not sell, license or transfer personal information we gather from you outside of The Vickers Company, except as necessary to provide you with information, services or products that we offer independently or jointly with others, as required by law or in connection with judicial or governmental proceedings, or in connection with the sale of all or substantially all of The Vickers Company assets or of the assets of a division of The Vickers Company.

Confidentiality of Personal Information

The Vickers Company uses reasonable efforts to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information, including encrypting personal information as it is transmitted between your computer and The Vickers Company via our website. In addition, employees of The Vickers Company are subject to confidentiality and compliance policies relating to personal information.

Non-Personal Information

We may use and disclose to others information about you and your use of the website by which you are not identified, such as the type of browser you use, the files you request, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and geographic location from which you request information, the URL that you came from and go to and similar information, and information compiled in the form of statistical, demographic, or aggregated information about visitors generally to the website. This information is referred to in this document as "Non-Personal Information." We do not sell or share personal information information.

We do not use cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent the use of cookies.

Promotions, Information, or Other Offers

We may from time to time, send you information or offers regarding products or services of The Vickers Company or others in which we believe you might be interested. These offers will include an option that you may execute in order to discontinue similar contacts.

Links to Other Sites

The Vickers Company may provide links to other websites. Please be aware that once you leave our website and enter another website, you may be subject to different privacy practices and policies over which The Vickers Company has no control and for which The Vickers Company is not responsible. Please use prudence in utilizing such links and in disclosing any personal information on those sites.

Changes to this Internet Privacy Statement

The foregoing Internet Privacy Statement is effective as of March 1, 2008. The Vickers Company may change this statement periodically without notice. Changes to our Internet Privacy Statement will be noted here so that you can be informed about the privacy protections we provide. This statement is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

Related Information

For more information related to your use of this website, please refer to our Terms of Use.