At Ikegami, your privacy is of the utmost importance. We are committed not only to providing for you, our customer, the best possible online experience, but also to maintaining the privacy of our customer’s personal information for those who access our website. Information we collect from you is used to process your requests with us and provide for you the best possible service. Ikegami is the sole owner of all personally identifiable information collected via our web site. Please read on for more details about our privacy policy.

Information We Collect And The Uses For It
We occasionally offer contests and special promotions on our site. In order to take part in these opportunities, we will need to gather your name, e-mail address, and mailing address. This information is used to notify winners and administer the specific contest or promotion.
We may request your participation in online or offline surveys via e-mail, telephone, postal mail, or web pages. Surveys are strictly voluntary and your participation and/or answers do not prohibit or influence your use of our website. Furthermore, if you do participate in a survey, you may decline to answer any question, and all answers are held in strict confidence according to our privacy standards. Individually identifiable survey information is for the use of Ikegami only. General, aggregate survey results may be shared with third parties. Information you may be asked may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, income, age, gender, marital status, type of business, product usage, schooling, and hobbies. Survey data is used to enhance Ikegami to provide a better customer experience.
When you request a quote at our site, we monitor the information enabling us to better serve you. We use the general information to help us determine what products and services you are most interested in. We also keep track of site traffic using log files to help us better determine what areas of our site are providing our customers with the greatest value. We use this information to fine tune our site and tailor it to you and other visitors to our site.
From time to time we may use information we collect from you to notify you of important or exciting changes to our website, new or changing services we offer, and other special offers we think may be useful to you. If you decide you would rather not receive this information, send a message to info@ikegami.de. We’ll take you off our mailing lists until you inform us otherwise.

Privacy Protection – How It’s Done
Whenever you are in the process of placing a quote, accessing personal information, or providing personal information we use a secure server. Additionally, our policy for protecting the confidential and privacy of our customer’s personal information is achieved through the establishment of physical and electronic safeguards. Our employees are governed by our policies to protect the confidentiality of all customer data. Employees are authorized to access or use the information we collect only in the discharge of their assigned duties.

Cookies
The so-called cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser and which may be accessed by our server. The cookies we provide to your browser do not contain any personal information, but they do allow us to provide special services to you while you visit our website.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Ikegami does not currently sell, trade, or rent your personal information to any third parties.
We may merge or exchange customer data stored in our database with data from third parties for the purposes of enhancing and marketing products and/or services to customers.
We may provide aggregate statistics of our users to third parties in reference to traffic patterns, numbers of users, sales, and other site and customer information. This information will not provide any personally identifiable information on individual users.

Notifying You of Changes to the Use of Your Information
If at some point in the future there is a change to our information usage practices that affects your personal information, we will notify you by e-mail of the relevant changes. At the time of this message, you will be able to opt-out of this information usage by sending a message to the following address: info@ikegami.de. You should also check this posted privacy statement for changes.

Contacting You
We will send you e-mail messages during the processing of your quote to verify your request and to notify you of its status. If there is a problem with your quote, we may also contact you via e-mail, phone, or fax to notify you of the problem and solution. We may also contact you via e-mail, postal mail, phone, or fax regarding questions or comments you have regarding our website or our business. Surveys and post-quote satisfaction questions may also be administered via e-mail, postal mail, phone, or fax to help us better serve our customers.

Contact Us
You may contact us with any concerns you may have via e-mail at info@ikegami.de. You may also send us correspondence via postal mail to the following address:

Ikegami Electronics (Europe) GmbH.
Ikegami Strasse 1
D-41460 Neuss, GERMANY

Summary
At Ikegami your privacy is one of our top priorities. We realize that your personal information is very important to you, just as you are very important to us. It is necessary for us to collect certain private information from you in order to make online experience optimal at our site, however, we do not collect more information than is necessary nor do we use that information in ways other than for its intended purpose.

Effective Date
This Privacy Policy for Ikegami as stated herein is effective from July 01, 2002