Privacy Policy

DYN-OPTICS UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN UNION SAFE HARBOR PRIVACY STATEMENT (“PRIVACY STATEMENT”) OVERVIEW (“OVERVIEW”)

(Last Updated Aug 13, 2009)

Scope

·         This Overview highlights the Dyn-Optics  (“Dyn-Optics”) United States/European Union Safe Harbor Privacy Statement, found at: privacy statement. This Overview and the Privacy Statement apply to the Internet sites Dyn-Optics.com (the “Sites”).

Information Collected

·         When you use the Sites, Dyn-Optics may ask you to provide certain personal information. Dyn-Optics may also collect certain non-personal information concerning your use and activity related to the Sites.

·         The information Dyn-Optics collects may be combined with information collected from each of the Sites.

·         Dyn-Optics uses cookies and other technologies to keep track of your interactions with the Sites and Dyn-Optics services to offer a personalized experience.

Uses of Information

·         Dyn-Optics uses the information Dyn-Optics collects from the Sites to provide the services requested by you. Dyn-Optics services may include the display of personalized content and advertising.

·         Dyn-Optics uses your information to inform you about the products or services offered by Dyn-Optics and its subsidiaries and affiliates, and to send you relevant information related to Dyn-Optics.

·         Dyn-Optics does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. In order to help provide its services, it occasionally provides customer information to other companies that work on its behalf.

Your Choices

·         You can choose to stop delivery of promotional e-mail from the Sites by following the instructions included in each such email.

·         To view and edit your personal information, go to the Data Integrity and Access section of the Privacy Statement.

How to Contact Us

·         For more information about Dyn-Optics privacy practices and its contact information, please see the Privacy Statement.

Special Note to Users of Dyn-Optics.com

·         Display names of Dyn-Optics.com users are not publicly available. However, if you elect to post a comment to a blog or post in a forum on Dyn-Optics.com, then you will be assigned a nickname that will be publicly available.

DYN-OPTICS UNITED STATES/EUROPEAN UNION SAFE HARBOR PRIVACY STATEMENT (“PRIVACY STATEMENT”)

(Last Updated Aug 13, 2009)

(Effective Date Aug 13, 2009)

Dyn-Optics (“Dyn-Optics”), comprised of the Internet sites Dyn-Optics.com (the “Sites”), is committed to protecting the privacy of users of the Sites. Dyn-Optics intends to give users as much control as possible over user’s personally identifiable information, including registration data. This Privacy Statement applies to each of the Sites and describes the information Dyn-Optics collects about users and how that information may be used.

Dyn-Optics reserves the right to update and change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If Dyn-Optics makes material changes to its privacy practices, a prominent notice will be posted on this web page. Each time a user uses the Sites, the current version of the Privacy Statement applies. Accordingly, a user should check the date of this Privacy Statement (which appears at the top) and review for any changes since the last version. If a user does not agree to the Privacy Statement, the user should not use the Sites.

Dyn-Optics complies with the United States (“US”)/European Union (“EU”) Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the EU. Individuals who wish to file a complaint or who take issue with Dyn-Optics's EU Safe Harbor policies should direct such communication to Dyn-Optics Legal Services - Privacy via written communication at the contact information provided below. Filing a complaint in English will expedite the process. Dyn-Optics will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints regarding use and disclosure of personal information in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Statement. For complaints that cannot be resolved between Dyn-Optics and the complainant, Dyn-Optics participates in the dispute resolution procedures of the panel established by the EU data protection authorities to resolve disputes pursuant to the Safe Harbor framework.

Dyn-Optics agrees to notify users of the following privacy principles: Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access, and Enforcement.

NOTICE

Dyn-Optics provides this Privacy Statement to make users aware of Dyn-Optics privacy practices, and of the choices a user may make about the way the user’s information is collected and used.

Children
Users represent they are of legal age to create binding and financial obligations for any liability users may incur as a result of their use of the Sites. The Sites are not directed to children under the age of 13, and Dyn-Optics will never request personally identifiable information from anyone whom it knows to be under the age of 13 without verifiable parental or guardian consent. Dyn-Optics does not knowingly collect, or wish to obtain, personally identifiable information from children. If Dyn-Optics becomes aware that a user is under the age of 13 and has provided personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental or guardian consent, it will remove user’s personally identifiable information from its files.

What information Dyn-Optics collects
Dyn-Optics may collect two types of information from users of Sites: "personally identifiable information" (such as name, email address, postal address, telephone, birth date) and "aggregate information" (such as frequency of visits to Sites, IP address, Site pages most frequently accessed, browser type). Personally identifiable information is any piece of information which can potentially be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a user of the Sites. Aggregate information is non-personally identifiable/anonymous information about users of the Sites. Aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified by that compiled information.

On the Sites, users may order products or services, and register to receive materials. Personally identifiable information collected on the Sites includes community forum content, diaries, profiles, photographs, name, unique identifiers (e.g., passwords), contact and billing information (e.g., email address, postal address, telephone, fax), and transaction information.

In order to tailor Dyn-Optics’s subsequent communications to users and continuously improve the Sites’ products and services, Dyn-Optics may also ask users to provide information regarding their interests, demographics, experience with its products, and detailed contact preferences.

Cookies
Dyn-Optics uses cookies on the Sites. A cookie is a unique text file that may be used for data analysis, and enables a web site to tailor information presented to a user based on a user’s browsing program. Dyn-Optics may use cookies to personalize a user’s pages at a Site, to remember a user when the user registers for products or services, or to track visits to a Site. If a user does not want Dyn-Optics to deploy cookies in the user’s browser, the user may set the browser to reject cookies or to notify the user when a web site tries to place cookies in the browser program. Rejecting cookies may affect a user’s ability to use some of the products, features, functions, or services on a Site. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information.

Log files
Dyn-Optics web servers may automatically log aggregate information, such as a user’s IP address, domain name, browser type, date and time of access, and other log file data. This information may be used to analyze trends or administer the Sites. Log files do not contain personally identifiable information.

With respect to Dyn-Optics.com, Dyn-Optics contracts with third party mirror providers, who deliver integrated communications services, including Internet access services, to deploy mirrors of downloads in order to make file downloading via Dyn-Optics.com faster and more convenient. Dyn-Optics has no control over the privacy or logging policies of mirror providers, or the implementation thereof, and such policies may differ from this Privacy Statement.

How Dyn-Optics uses the information collected
Dyn-Optics may use the personally identifiable information a user submits for any purposes related to Dyn-Optics’s business, including, but not limited to:

1.      To understand a user’s needs and create content that is relevant to the user;

2.      To generate statistical studies;

3.      To conduct market research and planning by sending user surveys;

4.      To notify user referrals of Dyn-Optics services, information, or products when a user requests that Dyn-Optics send such information to referrals;

5.      To improve services, information, and products;

6.      To help a user complete a transaction, or provide services or customer support;

7.      To communicate back to the user;

8.      To update the user on services, information, and products;

9.      To personalize a Site for the user;

10.  To notify the user of any changes with a Site which may affect the user;

11.  To enforce terms of use on a Site; and

12.  To allow the user to purchase products, access services, or otherwise engage in activities the user selects.

User names, identifications (“IDs”), and email addresses (as well as any additional information that a user may choose to post) may be publicly available on a Site when users voluntarily and publicly disclose personally identifiable information, such as when a user posts personally identifiable information in conjunction with content subject to an Open Source license, or as part of a message posted to a public forum or a publicly-released software application. Users may not be able to change or remove public postings once posted. Such personally identifiable information may be used by visitors of these pages to send unsolicited messages. Dyn-Optics is not responsible for any consequences which may occur from the use of personally identifiable information that a user chooses to submit to public pages.

With respect to surveys, in the event that responses are publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey. Dyn-Optics will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users, which as stated earlier is anonymous information that does not identify any specific individual. Circumstances under which Dyn-Optics would publicly disclose such aggregate information include, but are not limited to, sharing survey results with the site population, providing data to Dyn-Optics advertisers on user preferences and/or demographics, and publicizing overall usage data in press communications.

Where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where Dyn-Optics advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, Dyn-Optics reserves the right to disclose any information provided by users, provided that no personal information identifying a specific user is disclosed. Participation in surveys is at a user's option; Dyn-Optics does not conduct mandatory surveys.

CHOICE/OPT OUT

A user makes the decision whether to proceed with any activity that requests personally identifiable information. If a user does not provide requested information, the user may not be able to complete certain transactions.

Users who use the personally identifiable information of other users agree to use such information only for:

1.      Using services offered through a Site;

2.      Site transaction-related purposes and not for unsolicited commercial messages; or

3.      Other purposes that the other user expressly chooses.

Users are not licensed to add other users to a Site, even users who entered into transactions with them, or to their mail lists without consent.
Dyn-Optics encourages users to evaluate privacy and security policies of any of the Sites’ transaction partners before entering into transactions or choosing to disclose personally identifiable information.

Emails
Dyn-Optics will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to it online in ways unrelated to the items described above without first letting a user know and offering the user a choice. If a user no longer wishes to receive direct marketing materials, Dyn-Optics will provide instructions in each of its emails on how to be removed from any lists. Dyn-Optics will make commercially reasonable efforts to honor such requests.

Profile or User ID Display
A user’s personally identifiable information may be publicly available through a user's profile or user ID display. In such cases, users have the option and discretion to opt out of publicly displaying their real names at any time by changing their display name under the Sites’ user preferences. Profile or user ID display may allow other users to see a user’s activities, including purchase and sales content, ratings, and comments.

Email Display
Users may have the opportunity to use a service to send electronic mail to another user or email list. In such cases, a user's valid email address and real name will be included with such messages. In order to prevent abuse, users may not opt out of such a display, but may choose to refrain from using such service to transmit an email message.

Photographs
Users may have the opportunity to submit photographs to the Sites for product promotions, contests, and other purposes to be disclosed at the time of request. In these circumstances, the Sites are designed to allow the public to view, download, save, and otherwise access the photographs posted. By submitting a photograph, users waive any privacy expectations users have with respect to the security of such photographs, and Dyn-Optics’s use or exploitation of users’ likeness. All photographs submitted to Dyn-Optics become the property of Dyn-Optics and will not be returned.

ONWARD TRANSFER

With whom may Dyn-Optics share information?
Dyn-Optics will not sell, rent, or lease a user’s personally identifiable information to others, except as described in this Privacy Statement. Unless Dyn-Optics has a user’s permission or as required by law, Dyn-Optics will only share the personally identifiable information a user provides online with other entities that are part of the Dyn-Optics corporate family and/or outside service providers who may be used to ship products, process credit cards, provide technical support, handle order processing, or otherwise act on Dyn-Optics’s behalf. These third parties are prohibited from using users’ information for any other purpose, including their own marketing.

When Dyn-Optics uses third parties to assist in processing a Site’s user personally identifiable information, Dyn-Optics requests that they comply with Dyn-Optics privacy practices, and other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Please be advised that in certain instances, it may be necessary for Dyn-Optics to disclose a user’s personally identifiable information without a user’s permission to government officials or otherwise as required by legal obligations. Dyn-Optics may disclose such personally identifiable information when responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise legal rights or defend against claims, including fraud or infringement investigations.

Data collected online may be combined with information a user provides through other means of communication, such as postal mail or third parties to further carry out the purposes described above under the heading “NOTICE, How Dyn-Optics uses the information collected regarding users”.

When users choose to provide Dyn-Optics with personally identifiable information, users consent to the transfer and storage of such information by Dyn-Optics servers in the United States.
In addition, Dyn-Optics reserves the right to share aggregate information collected from users of the Sites, without prior notice, with entities that are part of the Dyn-Optics corporate family and unrelated third parties. As stated earlier, aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified by such compiled information.

Service Orders
To purchase services, users may be asked to be directed to a third party site, like PayPal, to pay for their purchases. If applicable, the third party site may collect payment information directly to facilitate a transaction. None of this information will be captured or stored by Dyn-Optics.

Links to third party web sites
Links to third party web sites on the Sites are provided solely as a convenience to the user. When a user uses these links, the user leaves the Sites. Dyn-Optics has not reviewed all of these third party sites, does not control, and is not responsible for, any of the third party sites, their content or privacy practices. Dyn-Optics does not endorse or make any representations about the third party sites, or any information, services, or products found on the sites. If a user decides to access any of the linked sites, Dyn-Optics encourages the user to read their privacy statements. The user accesses such sites at user’s own risk.

Bankruptcy or Sale of business
Dyn-Optics reserves the right to share or transfer personally identifiable information and aggregate information to a third party should Dyn-Optics ever file for bankruptcy or in the event of a sale, merger or acquisition of Dyn-Optics, provided such third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Statement.

DATA INTEGRITY AND ACCESS

Should a user find inaccuracies in such user’s information, or desire to close an account or view the personally identifiable information Dyn-Optics may have regarding the user, the user may contact Dyn-Optics through the communication methods described below, or when technically feasible, directly on a Site. Dyn-Optics will make commercially reasonable efforts to respond to requests for access within thirty (30) days of receiving requests. Dyn-Optics may decline to process users’ access or update requests to their personally identifiable information if the requests require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of other users, or are impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes).

SECURITY

To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, Dyn-Optics implements physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information Dyn-Optics collects. Dyn-Optics uses encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive personally identifiable information. However, Dyn-Optics does not guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never defeat measures taken to prevent improper use of personally identifiable information.
Internal Dyn-Optics access to users’ nonpublic personally identifiable information is restricted to Dyn-Optics’s administrators and individuals on a need-to-know basis. These individuals are bound by confidentiality agreements.

User passwords are keys to accounts. Use unique numbers, letters, and special characters for passwords and do not disclose passwords to other people in order to prevent loss of account control. Users are responsible for all actions taken in their accounts. Notify Dyn-Optics of any password compromises, and change passwords periodically to maintain account protection. In addition to passwords, Dyn-Optics.net users also obtain encryption keys for the release of files for download, development of web content, and other services. Users are responsible for all actions taken with encryption keys, and must promptly notify Dyn-Optics of any security compromises involving such encryption keys.

ENFORCEMENT

In the event Dyn-Optics becomes aware that the security of a Site has been compromised or user’s personally identifiable information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including but not limited to security attacks or fraud, Dyn-Optics reserves the right to take reasonable appropriate measures, including but not limited to, investigation and reporting, and notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities.

If Dyn-Optics becomes aware that a user's personally identifiable information has been disclosed in a manner not permitted by this Privacy Statement, Dyn-Optics will make reasonable efforts to notify the affected user, as soon as reasonably possible and as permitted by law, of what information has been disclosed, to the extent that Dyn-Optics knows this information.

If a user has comments or questions about Dyn-Optics.com's privacy statement, please contact:

Email: privacy@Dyn-Optics.com
Telephone:973-944-3996

Postal Mail:
Attn: Dyn-Optics . Legal Services - Privacy
Dyn-Optics
PO Box 374

Sparta, NJ 07871