PRIVACY STATEMENT

We welcome you to the  Foton Web Sites. At Foton, your privacy and the protection of your personal information is handled with great regard. The following text will inform you on how we use and manage the information collected at our site.

Web Site Visits

Each time you visit Foton's Web Site, our server automatically recognizes and logs your IP address. An IP address is basically the address of the computer making a request to our web server. No personal information or detail is obtained in this data interchange—a visitor's browser is not designed to provide this information.

At Foton, logged IP addresses are periodically reviewed and analyzed in an effort to monitor, maintain, and effectively improve our Web site. This information is retained for no other purpose and is not shared outside of Foton.

The Foton Web site contains links to other web sites. Foton does not control or take responsibility for personal information collected on these sites nor is Foton responsible for the accuracy or the content of these sites.

Customer Information

Once you make a purchase or request other information from Foton, your name, shipping/mailing address, telephone number, email address and fax number are included in our customer file.

This information is used to ensure a quick, efficient flow of products and services to you.

This information may also be used for other purposes as outlined below.

Postal Addresses

Foton may use your mailing address to send Foton marketing materials to keep you updated on our most current products and services.

Email Addresses

Email addresses may be used to communicate information of interest to you about Foton. This includes Order Shipment/Tracking Information, Obsolete Part Bulletins, Service Change Information or other Foton promotional emails.

Emails may be sent by Foton or an authorized agent working for Foton. All authorized agents operate with a confidentiality agreement

Email addresses are never rented, sold or traded to third parties.

Other Uses of Customer Information

Foton is under contract to provide point of sale information to many of its product suppliers for market research and payment of commission to the supplier's agents.

Customer information is also used for marketing and market research for Foton Corporation. Foton or an authorized agent working for Foton may complete these activities. All customer information is kept confidential.

Foton will share customer information with government agencies if required by law.

Web Site Security

Foton's site is equipped with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL protocol was developed by Netscape Communications Corporation to enable encrypted, authenticated communications across the Internet. SSL uses public key encryption mechanisms, one of the strongest encryption methods available to protect data sent over the Internet. SSL provides 3 important services, all using public key techniques: Privacy, Authentication, and Message Integrity. Customer information sent is not discernible to anyone except the recipient.

Browsers that support the SSL encryption technology are called secure browsers. Online orders to Foton must be placed from a secure browser. Most Netscape Navigator (version 1.2 and later) and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers (version 3.0 and later) are secure. Your browser will automatically enter the secure mode when you make purchases.

Foton is not liable or responsible for any loss or damage resulting from the use of a browser that is not secure.

When accessing our online order entry system using a secure browser, one can feel secure transmitting credit card or other confidential information sent over the Internet.

"Cookies"

A "cookie" is a very tiny piece of text we're asking permission to place on your computer's hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file. Each "cookie" has a unique identifier and structure assigned by the sending Web site. Only the originating Web site can access a cookie left behind in a prior session (when you return to that site). Your identity will not become public information on the Internet because you visited our site.

Foton uses "cookies" to:

• Allow you to build an order over time, adding components throughout the day or over an extended period of time.
  • Uncommitted orders will remain available for 15 days. An order that has not been visited within that 15 day period will be removed.
• Allow you to easily return to the site to retrieve information on previous orders.
• Maintain a client/server connection or user "state" as you move between pages building an order.
• Allow you to store your user ID's.

"Cookies" are assigned an expiration date and time. Foton's "cookies," used for online order processing, remain on your hard drive for two months. However, no more than 300 "cookies" can be stored by your browser at any one time and no more than 20 can be stored from any one site. If the "cookie" jar is filled, your browser will automatically begin deleting the oldest "cookies."

"Cookies" cannot enable the web server to read from your hard drive, get your email address against your will, destroy files on your computer, create executable programs, or obtain sensitive information about you. "Cookies" from one site can not be read by another site; your information can not be passed from site to site.

If you feel that your privacy is being violated by the use of "cookies," they can be erased from your hard drive. However, any links developed with the Web site that sent the "cookies" are lost. In the case of an online order with Foton, the ability to create an order over time, or retrieve an order, would be lost.

With respect to customer privacy concerns, Foton has tried using alternative technologies to "cookies" to maintain stable connections. We returned to "cookies" after experiencing reduced performance and an unacceptable number of customer service problems. "Cookies" have, thus far, proven to be the best method of making the online ordering experience as efficient as possible.

Spotlight tags: Information about Web site usage and visitors to our Web sites are shared with a reputable third-party for the purpose of targeting our Internet advertisements in other sites. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable.

 

 

Contact Information

Please contact us if you have any questions, concerns or comments. Contacting us at:

Foton Teknoloji Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. Şti.

Izzetpasa Mah. Yeniyol Cad. Goksu Apt.

No:20 K:2 D:2 34387 Sisli / Istanbul

Phone: +90 212 225 4540

Fax: +90 212 233 2520

Email: sales@foton.com.tr

Note: We reserve the right to make changes to our privacy policy at any time without prior notification.