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At Textron Defense Systems, we know
you care about your personal privacy. Because we care, we
have adopted the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
You should not access the Textron Defense Systems website (the "Site")
or use our services until you have carefully read this Privacy
Policy and agree to the terms and conditions described in
it.
Our Collection and Use of Your Personal
Information
We collect and use information about you
which will help us administer our business or provide products,
services or other opportunities to you. Among other things,
we use the information we learn about you to help us personalize
and improve the experience you have on our website, to respond
to your requests and to communicate with you. The types of
information we collect, retain and use include the following:
Site Use Information: In general,
you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing
any information about yourself. Our web servers collect the
domain names, not the email addresses, of visitors. This information
is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time
spent on the Site, pages viewed, etc. Textron Defense Systems utilizes
this information ("behavior profiles") to measure
the use of our Site and to improve the content we offer. We
may share with third parties experiential information or other
data which does not personally identify users of our site.
For example, this might include product or service preferences
of all visitors to our site.
Registration Information You Provide To Us: When you
register on our site to receive news from Textron Defense Systems,
we collect profile information from you ("Personally
Identifiable Information"). We require that you provide
your first and last name, email address, and other information
as requested in the applicable registration pages. At your
option you may voluntarily provide additional information,
including address, phone/fax, and, in the case of seeking
employment at Textron Defense Systems, your employment history. Although
you may choose not to provide the optional information to
us, it may result in some features not being available to
you.
By providing this Personally Identifiable
Information to us, you explicitly agree to our collection
and usage of such information as described in this Privacy
Policy. We use your Personally Identifiable Information to
respond to your inquiries, process an order, contact you regarding
account status or customer service, ask you for feedback on
our service, let you know about products or services which
may be of interest to you, or allow you to access specific
account information , or in the case of seeking employment
at Textron Defense Systems, match you with appropriate job opportunities.
When you register, you consent to allow us to contact you
for those purposes.
Cookies: Like many websites we use
"cookies" to enable us to remember your password,
to help us identify the portions of our Site that may be the
most relevant for your needs, and to help us identify other
products or services that may be of interest to you or others.
A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site can
store on your web browser and then retrieve at a later time.
We use cookies to track the portions of our Site you visit.
However, we do NOT use cookies to examine your surfing behavior
before or after you leave our Site. There are products commercially
available that are designed to help you disable cookies. Although
we want you to be aware that such products exist, please note
that if you choose to use them we will not be able to provide
you with a personalized service, and it may result in certain
features and services not being available to you.
Email Communications: We use your
email address to contact you to respond to your inquiries
or to provide information on products or services to you.
To help us determine whether you have received an email from
us, and to help us make emails more useful and interesting,
we may receive a confirmation that you have opened an email
from us.
Child Privacy: We do not knowingly solicit or receive
information from children under the age of 18.
Restrictions on Disclosing Information
to Third Parties
We are not in the business of selling your
Personally Identifiable Information to others. We do not reveal
Personally Identifiable Information about you to unaffiliated
third parties, unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2)
the information is provided to help complete a transaction
for you; (3) the information is provided to comply with the
law, applicable regulations, court orders or subpoenas, to
enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect
our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or
safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting
agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) the disclosure is done
as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets
(e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are
acquired by another party, customer information may be one
of the transferred assets); or (5) the information is provided
to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform
functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing
assistance, providing customer service, etc.). We may also
gather aggregated data about you and disclose such aggregated
(but not personally identifiable) information to third parties
for promotional or other purposes.
Security Procedures to Protect Information
We maintain numerous security standards and
procedures to help prevent unauthorized access to confidential
information about you. Our site uses a combination of encryption
technology and authentication to protect your Personally Identifiable
Information. As long as the web browser you are using supports
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), your information will be submitted
to us with a high level of security. We update and test our
security technology on an ongoing basis. We have procedures
limiting employee access to Personally Identifiable Information
to those employees who have a business reason to know such
information about you.
It is also important for you to help protect against unauthorized
access by signing off our Site each time you finish using
the Site.
Inapplicability of Privacy Policies of
any Linked Sites or Other Parties
Textron Defense Systems' Site may contain links to
other sites such as affiliates, subsidiaries or other third
party distributors and sales representatives. This Privacy
Policy only addresses Textron Defense Systems' use and disclosure
of your Personally Identifiable Information collected on this
site. While we try to link only to sites that share our standards
and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites,
and we encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies
and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites.
Terms of Use, Notices and Changes to Our
Privacy Policy
In the event of any conflict between
the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, then
the Terms of Use shall control.
As our business changes, this Privacy Policy and the Terms
of Use are expected to change from time to time, and we reserve
the right to change the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at
any time. The use of your information is subject to the Privacy
Policy and Terms of Use in effect at the time of use. The
provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices
or statements regarding our privacy practices with respect
to this Site. We may email periodic reminders of our notices
and terms and conditions and post any changes to the Privacy
Policy and the Terms of Use on our Site. We encourage you
to check our Site frequently to see the current Privacy Policy
and Terms of Use in effect and any changes that may have been
made to them.
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