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Privacy

Effective 18th September 2005

This Web Site Privacy Statement ("Privacy Statement") tells our visitors ("You") about:

a) The information CIGNEX Technologies, Inc. ("CIGNEX") collects through our website(s), www.cignex.com and "related web sites" (the "Site(s)");
b) Certain services available on our Site(s) including the CIGNEX Connect and CIGNEX Education pages;
c) How we use that information; and
d) How You can choose to opt out of some of these practices.

Consent

By accessing our Site, You are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Statement, as modified from time to time by us. If we decide to change our Privacy Statement, we will post a new statement on our Site and change the date at the top of the statement. Therefore, we encourage You to check the date of our Privacy Statement whenever You visit this Site for any updates or changes.

About CIGNEX

With more than 50 successful open-source implementations, CIGNEX Technologies, Inc. is the leader in open-source business software solutions for content management and portals, application server migration, customer relationship management (CRM), and business intelligence. CIGNEX helps customers reduce costs and minimize business risks by helping them choose and implement the right open-source technologies to solve their business problems.

What personal information do we collect on the Site and why?

We collect several types of information on our Site including "Personal Information," which generally is information that can be used to identify You individually, such as Your name and email address. The information we collect depends on what services You use on our Site(s). The following is a more detailed explanation of these types of information, as well as when and how we use it.

Contact Information - We may collect information that identifies You personally, such as Your name and e-mail address, when You submit a form, such as, but not limited to, a request for information, a request for an CIGNEX White Paper, or to register for the Connect.CIGNEX.Com site. We collect additional information if You choose to submit it, including Your title and place of employment, business telephone number, mailing and facsimile address, as well as the contents of Your questions and/or comments submitted along with this information. In general, we may use this information to respond to Your inquiry, request Your participation in a survey, and contact You about CIGNEX service or product or partner offerings that may be of interest to You.
Here are some details about certain features of our Site(s).

Newsletters - If You register for an CIGNEX newsletter, we will use Your email address to send the newsletter to You.

Career Inquiries - CIGNEX accepts inquiries and applications regarding our open job postings through the Site. This may include resume files. Personal information submitted by job applicants when applying for a position is only used for the purpose of evaluating the candidate for a position at CIGNEX and is managed according to CIGNEX's human resources department policies.

Investor Inquiries - CIGNEX is a privately held company and reserves the right to keep their financial information confidential.

IP Addresses - Each visitor to the Site is identified by an IP address during their visit and IP addresses are automatically captured by the Site management software. CIGNEX uses this information to help improve the operation of the Site and may at some time use this information to help adjust the content of the Site to the general geographic location of the visitor and for reporting purposes.

Cookies - CIGNEX uses small files called "cookies" to improve the quality of a visitor's interaction with the Site, to enable a shopping cart feature, and facilitate other advanced features. If You have set Your browser to reject cookies, some features of the Site may not work properly.

Information sharing or disclosure practices

As a matter of policy, CIGNEX does not provide any of Your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without Your explicit consent. The personal information You provide to the Site may be accessed by (a) third parties who help CIGNEX operate the Site, help CIGNEX process transactions, provide the services requested by You, or contribute to CIGNEX sales and marketing efforts; and (b) law enforcement and other government entities if reasonably required.

Links to other Sites.

The Site contains links to third party web sites such as the web sites of CIGNEX partner companies. CIGNEX takes no responsibility for the content or information practices of such sites.

Choice and Opt-Out

You may opt-out of receiving CIGNEX newsletters or other email communications from CIGNEX by sending an email to mktg@cignex.com. In addition, each email communication includes instructions on how to unsubscribe.

Security

CIGNEX uses commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain personal information You submit on the Site to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by unauthorized parties. We may store information that we collect through our Site indefinitely except as otherwise required by law.

Comments and Questions

If You have questions or comments about this Privacy Statement, please contact us.