Eclipse Engineering and its affiliates ("Eclipse Engineering" or "we") are committed to protecting the privacy of the personally identifiable information that we collect from you as you use this Web site (the "Site"). The scope of Eclipse Engineering commitment is detailed in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information, you agree to Eclipse Engineering use of such information as described herein. Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our on-line policies in general.

Eclipse Engineering collects personally identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register, request publications or other information. The personally identifiable information collected may consist of a unique access ID, company or school affiliations, titles, and contact information, such as names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. Eclipse Engineering uses your personally identifiable information to fulfill your requests for publications or other information, to process your requests to participate in conferences and events, and to evaluate any job applications or other employment-related inquiries that you may submit. We may keep any of your personally identifiable information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. Eclipse Engineering also uses personally identifiable information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in specific areas and articles posted on our Site. The e-mail addresses provided at registration allow Eclipse Engineering to send e-mail to individuals based on the areas of interest that they indicate during the registration process. If you do not wish to receive e-mailed advance notice of articles, simply do not check off any of the subject boxes on the registration page. Eclipse Engineering uses personally identifiable information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described below.

Eclipse Engineering shall not intentionally disclose (and shall take commercially reasonable steps to prevent the accidental disclosure of) your personally identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of Eclipse Engineering), whether for such third parties or marketing purposes or otherwise, subject only to the following five exceptions:

1) Eclipse Engineering may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction;

2) Eclipse Engineering may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties who deliver information from us to you for the purpose of performing such delivery;

3) Eclipse Engineering may disclose your personally identifiable information if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent to such disclosure;

4) Eclipse Engineering may disclose contact information for you in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to Eclipse Engineering;

5) If Eclipse Engineering and/or any of its affiliates merges with or sells substantially all of its assets or a majority of its equity to a third party, information collected by Eclipse Engineering or such affiliates on their Web sites may be disclosed to and owned by the merged entity or third party.

We may provide links to third-party Web sites as a service to our users. In addition, some of the content appearing to be on this Site is in fact supplied by third parties, for example, in instances of framing of third- party Web sites or incorporation through framesets of content supplied by third-party servers. Please be aware that we cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection practices of such third-party Web sites, which may differ from those of this Site. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies on these Web sites before providing any information to them.

You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally identifiable information that you submitted to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the Site on which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered, or send us an e-mail through our contact page.

Eclipse Engineering has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Eclipse Engineering personnel are provided access to personally identifiable information, and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, Eclipse Engineering cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally identifiable information.

Eclipse Engineering understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 16 years of age or younger, and Eclipse Engineering will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 16.

By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us through our contact page.