Welcome to bioreliance.com (“Site”), which is owned and operated by BioReliance, part of Invitrogen Corporation (www.invitrogen.com). This Privacy Policy is designed to tell you about BioReliance’s collection, use, and dissemination practices regarding information that you provide to BioReliance through this Site.

The Site provides an opportunity for customers, prospective employees, and other adults to learn more about BioReliance. The Site is particularly geared to our customer base – people working in the biotechnology industry – and to providing them with content, products, and services geared to their industry.

Your use of this Site is subject to this Privacy Policy, which you may at any time print or download. Whenever you submit information to BioReliance through the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. BioReliance reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the revised policy at this location, but such changes will not affect information provided by you prior to the effective date of the change unless you consent otherwise. Please check back for updates to the Privacy Policy.

How we collect information about you:
When you request information from BioReliance via this Site, you will be asked to provide basic contact information (e.g., name, organization, address, phone number, e-mail address, fax number, and so on). On this Site, for example, we may collect and retain contact and other information from you in a number of ways, such as when you request e-mail updates or other information, complete customer surveys, submit a feedback or contact form, or provide a resume.

This Site collects various non-personally identifiable information from you in the course of your navigation of the Site, such as the URL of the site you just came from, the browser version you use, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, IP ports, date/time, size of data transferred, pages you visit, and other “clickstream” data.

How we use information about you:
BioReliance uses information collected by clickstream data collection to improve web site navigation, compile and analyze aggregate statistics and trends, and otherwise help administer and improve the Site.

Except as otherwise stated, BioReliance may use information it collects from you and others to respond to your request, improve the content, services, and products that BioReliance provides, communicate information to you, for our marketing and research analysis, and for other purposes identified to you. BioReliance reserves the right to make full use of information that is not in personally identifiable form.

From time to time, BioReliance uses contact information obtained via this Site to send e-mail and postal mail supplying customers with the most recent product and service information (where you have not expressed a preference otherwise).

How information may be disclosed and how it is protected:
BioReliance does not provide the personally identifiable information you supply to us to outside mailing lists.

BioReliance takes reasonable steps online and offline to safeguard the information you provide to us. We may disclose personally identifiable information that you provide via this site to respond to law enforcement requests or where required by applicable laws, regulations, or court orders. Furthermore, we may disclose information provided by you in connection with corporate restructuring, sale or assignment of assets, merger, divestiture, and other changes of control or financial status, in which case we will require the recipient to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Because no system is 100% secure or error-free despite taking commercially reasonable steps, BioReliance does not promise, and you should not expect, that information you provide to BioReliance shall remain private under all circumstances. It is your responsibility to safeguard any passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features associated with your use of the Site.

Opting out:
If you do not wish to receive certain communications from BioReliance, you may opt out by: (1) declining the service offered when registering or at other information collection points on the Site, or (2) informing us that you no longer wish to receive such communications. We will comply with such requests unless such communications are necessary for the administration of your account, required by law, or necessary to protect our rights.

Access to information you provide:
You may at any time request access to a summary of the information you provided at web registration, and request corrections or updates to that information. BioReliance will make reasonable efforts to respond promptly to such requests, but reserves the right to limit such requests to two per year per individual. Further, our response to such requests may be limited to information under our direct control.

Other web sites:
This Site contains links to the web sites of other organizations. BioReliance is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites, and unless otherwise specified, does not imply any relationship, sponsorship, or affiliation between BioReliance and these linked sites, or adoption or approval of the content of such sites.

How to contact us:
For any requests or questions related to this Privacy Policy, or if you have concerns about how information you provide to BioReliance is being used, please contact marketing@bioreliance.com
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This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 20, 2004.