The Microscope Depot

PRIVACY STATEMENT SUMMARY

WE DO NOT, NOR WILL WE EVER, GIVE OR SELL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO ANYONE OUTSIDE OF OUR COMPANY. WE HATE SPAM AND WE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN ITS PROLIFERATION!

WE DO NOT STORE YOUR SENSITIVE FINANCIAL INFORMATION SUCH AS YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER ON OUR SERVERS. IF YOU CHOOSE TO ORDER PRODUCTS USING YOUR CREDIT CARD, THIS INFORMATION WILL BE TEMPORARILY STORED ON THE SERVERS OF OUR SHOPPING CART SERVICE, AMERICART, IN A 128-BIT ENCRYPTED FORMAT. IF YOUR SOFTWARE CANNOT COMMUNICATE IN 128-BIT FORMAT, YOU ARE GIVEN THE OPTION OF USING UNENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION, HOWEVER WE DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS.

WE RECOGNIZE THAT "IDENTITY THEFT" AND "SPAM" ARE GROWING CONCERNS OF OUR CUSTOMERS AND OUR SOCIETY, AND WE WILL PROTECT ANY INFORMATION GIVEN TO US WITH THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF INTEGRITY AND SECURITY.

PRIVACY STATEMENT DETAILS

The Microscope Depot has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Microscope-Depot.com.

This site is hosted by Microscope-Depot.com web servers. The shopping cart service is provided by AMERICART. Microscope-Depot.com will automatically collect order information but may only use this information in the aggregate.

Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart.

Our shopping cart's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We may use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings.

This site contains links to other sites. Microscope-Depot.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our site may use an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like their email address) and financial information (like their account or credit card numbers). Financial information will be stored only for a temporary period of time. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and information about our company to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.

We may run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like their email address), financial information (like their account or credit card numbers), and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). We use contact data from our contests to send users information about our company. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Security

The Microscope Depot does not store sensitive Customer information such as credit card information on its servers. Our shopping cart service AMERICART, uses 128 encryption to temporarily collect and store sensitive Customer data such as credit cart numbers. The Microscope Depot uses 128 encryption to retrieve this data from AMERICART one time to process the transaction, and then deletes it. This data is never sent in emails or stored in an unencrypted format.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us by clicking here.

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