Introduction
NimbleGen respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy explains how NimbleGen treats your information, correspondence, and software exchanged through a NimbleGen website to best serve you.

Information NimbleGen requests or collects from you
To provide the superior services offered by a NimbleGen website, NimbleGen collects from you two types of information: personally identifiable information and technology-related information.

Personally identifiable information: This is information that identifies the person who is using a NimbleGen website. When you register for services offered by a NimbleGen website, NimbleGen may request personally identifiable information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address. When you make an on-line business transaction through a NimbleGen website, NimbleGen may request personally identifiable information such as your account number with NimbleGen, credit card number or other payment account information. NimbleGen may also collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily disclose to NimbleGen through electronic correspondence, such as comments transmitted by e-mail.

Technology-related information: This is information related to your computer when you access a NimbleGen website. Because technology is employed in collecting this information, it is not readily apparent to you that it is being collected. An example of technology-related information which NimbleGen may collect is your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address. An IP address is a number, uniquely identifying a computer, necessary for computer to web server communication on the Internet.

Services offered by a NimbleGen website which require requesting information from you
NimbleGen requests information primarily to provide you with superior service. NimbleGen may need information about you in order to provide specific services, such as the following:

Product notifications: NimbleGen may use your submitted personally identifiable information to provide to you product notifications, at your request.

Business transactions: NimbleGen may use your submitted personally identifiable information, purchase-related information and related correspondence to conduct an on-line business transaction, at your request. For example, NimbleGen may also use your information to transmit to you business data such as order status, shipment status, account information and products returned.

Proposals: NimbleGen may use your submitted personally identifiable information, proposal related information and related correspondence to manage on-line proposals between you and NimbleGen.

Training: NimbleGen may use your submitted personally identifiable information, training request and related correspondence to provide on-line training to you.
Software patches: NimbleGen may use your submitted personally identifiable information, software patch request and related correspondence to transmit software patches to you.

Customer service and support: NimbleGen may use your submitted personally identifiable information and correspondence with a customer service representative to provide customer service and support to you.

NimbleGen secondary uses of information collected from you
NimbleGen may use information collected from you for secondary uses, such as the following:

Measure user interest in NimbleGen products and services: NimbleGen may perform statistical analyses on aggregate user demographics and behavior to measure interest in the different areas of a NimbleGen website or the various products or services offered by a NimbleGen website. To obtain statistics, NimbleGen collects your clickstream (the record of your traversal through a NimbleGen website).

Site improvement: Upon accessing a NimbleGen website, NimbleGen collects information, such as the browser you are using and the screen size you are using, to improve the content of the site, make your traversal through the site more efficient and tailor the content and layout of the site to your preferences.

Administration: NimbleGen collects your computer's IP address for the purposes of administration, such as monitoring the level of activity on a NimbleGen website and diagnosing problems with NimbleGen web servers.

URL prior to accessing a NimbleGen website: To enforce the NimbleGen Linking Policy, NimbleGen will collect the Uniform Resource Locator, or "URL," which is the address of the web site you last visited prior to accessing a NimbleGen website.

Cookies: In a very limited manner, NimbleGen uses cookies (small pieces of information NimbleGen web servers transmit to your computer) to allow NimbleGen web servers make your traversal through a NimbleGen website more efficient. For instance, NimbleGen may use cookies to remember items selected for purchase in an on-line business transaction in order to generate a total charge for the entire transaction. You may set a preference in your web browser to warn you every time a cookie is being sent or to turn off all cookies. (Please refer to the help page in your web browser to set up your cookie preferences.)

Surveys: NimbleGen may use your personally identifiable information to send you surveys regarding use of a NimbleGen website and NimbleGen various products and services.

Occasions where NimbleGen may share your information with others
NimbleGen may share your information with others for the following reasons:

Your authorization: NimbleGen may share your personally identifiable information if you authorize NimbleGen to do so.

Agents of NimbleGen: NimbleGen may share your personally identifiable information, purchase-related information, training requests and correspondence with customer service with third parties who help NimbleGen deliver products or services, such as a shipping company. Those third parties include contractors, temporary employees and consultants and other companies working with NimbleGen (collectively, "Agents"). Agents are instructed to use your information to help NimbleGen deliver products or services.

Companies of NimbleGen: NimbleGen may share your personally identifiable information, technically related information, product notification requests, purchase-related information, training requests, software patch requests and correspondence with customer service with NimbleGen Systems, Inc., any of its related, affiliated or subsidiary companies or its parent company.

Customer profiling: NimbleGen may match your personally identifiable information, purchase-related information, training requests and correspondence with customer service with third-party data to help NimbleGen better understand its customers and for marketing purposes.

Business partners: NimbleGen may disclose aggregate user statistics of purchase-related information, training requests and technology-related information to prospective and current business partners and advertisers. This information will not include personally identifiable information.

Business transfers: As NimbleGen continues to develop its business, NimbleGen may sell or buy companies or assets. In such transactions, personally identifiable information generally is one of the transferred business assets. In addition, aggregate user statistics of purchase-related information, training requests and technology-related information may be disclosed to a prospective purchaser of a NimbleGen company or asset. Although unlikely, NimbleGen or substantially all of its assets may be acquired. In this instance, personally identifiable information will be one of the transferred assets.

Protection: NimbleGen may disclose your personally identifiable information and technology-related information, when NimbleGen believes that such release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply the Terms and Conditions of the Use of the NimbleGen Web Sites and other agreements or to protect the rights, property, or safety of NimbleGen, users or others.

Law enforcement: NimbleGen may be required by law to cooperate with government authorities and will, for example, disclose your personally identifiable information and technology-related information upon receipt of a court order or subpoena.
NimbleGen security precautions to protect your information:
NimbleGen has taken precautions to secure personally identifiable information you submitted. NimbleGen web servers protect this information using password protection and encryption.

What is covered by the NimbleGen Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to the use of www.NimbleGen.com or any other World Wide Web site owned by NimbleGen Systems, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies. Your use of these websites or pages within these websites is also governed by the Terms and Conditions of the NimbleGen Web Sites and the NimbleGen Linking Policy, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.

What is not covered by the NimbleGen Privacy Policy
Links to third-party web sites: A NimbleGen website may contain links to other web sites owned or operated by third parties. This Privacy Policy does not cover a third-party web site's privacy, disclosure and collection policy or practices. For example, a third-party web site may solicit you, request personally identifiable information from you and send cookies to you. Upon clicking on a third-party web site, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.

Third-party advertisers: This Privacy Policy does not cover a third-party advertiser's privacy, disclosure and collection policy or practices. For instance, a third-party advertiser may collect information about you when you click on the third-party's banner advertisement. Upon clicking on a third-party web advertisement, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.