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Welcome to this SMCS website. We at SMCS
respect the privacy of everyone who visits this website
and are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the
personal information of all visitors to this website. Our policy
on the collection and use of personal information and other information
is outlined below.
Personal information
1. We do not require personal
information to obtain access to most of our
website.
2. We collect personal
information from our visitors on a voluntary
basis. Personal information may include name,
title, company, address, phone number, email
address, and other relevant data. Questions or
comments submitted by visitors may also include
personal information.
3. We collect and use personal
information for business purposes in order :
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that you may download product information,
order products and take advantage of certain
other features of our website.
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to provide information or interactive
services through this website, to your e-mail
address or, where you wish it to be sent by
post, to your name and postal address.
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to seek your feedback or to contact you in
relation to those services offered on the our
website
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to process orders or applications submitted
by you.
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to administer or otherwise carry out our
obligations in relation to any agreement you
have with us
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to anticipate and resolve problems with any
goods or services supplied to you.
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to create products or services that may meet
your needs.
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to process and respond to requests, improve
our operations, and communicate with visitors
about our products, services and businesses.
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to allow you to subscribe to our news letter.
4. We will not use or share, either within SMCS
or with a third party, any information collected at this
page for direct marketing purposes. Because of the nature of the
Internet, we may transmit the information to another country,
but among SMCS and its affiliates, for purposes other
than direct marketing, such as for storage, or for carrying out
the processing detailed above, or because of where our servers
are located, but we do not provide or use personal information
to unrelated businesses for direct marketing purposes.
5. To the extent required or
permitted by law, we may also collect, use and
disclose personal information in connection with
security related or law enforcement investigations
or in the course of cooperating with authorities
or complying with legal requirements.
6. We may also remove all the
personally identifiable information and use the
rest for historical, statistical or scientific
purposes.
7. If you e-mail us, you are voluntarily releasing
information to us. Your e-mail address will be used by SMCS to
respond to you. We will not use the information that can identify
you, such as your e-mail address, for direct marketing purposes.
8. In addition, we may have
collected similar information from you in the
past. By entering this website you are consenting
to the terms of our information privacy policy and
to our continued use of previously collected
information. By submitting your personal
information to us, you will be treated as having
given your permission for the processing of your
personal data as set out in this policy.
Non personal information
1. At this web site, information
sent by your web browser, may be automatically
collected. This information typically includes
your domain name (the site after the @ in your
e-mail address). It may also contain your user
name (the name before the @ in your e-mail
address). Other examples of information collected
by our server include the Internet protocol (IP)
address used to connect the visitor's computer to
the Internet, operating system and platform, the
average time spent on our website, pages viewed,
information searched for, access times, websites
visited before and a visitor visits our website,
and other relevant statistics. The amount of
information sent depends on the settings you have
on your web browser; please refer to your browser
if you want to learn what information it sends.
2. All such information will be
used only to assist us in providing an effective
service on this website. We may from time to time
supply the owners or operators of third party
websites from which it is possible to link to our
website with information relating to the number of
users linking to our website from such third party
website. You cannot be identified from this
information.
3. We use the information we automatically receive
from your web browser to see which pages you visit within our
website, which website you visited before coming to ours, and
where you go after you leave. We at SMCS can then develop statistics
that are helpful to understanding how our visitors use this website.
We use this information in the aggregate to measure the use of
our website and to administer and improve our website. This statistical
data is interpreted by SMCS in its continuing effort to present
the website content that visitors are seeking in a format they
find most helpful.
Information placed on your
computer
We may store some information
such as cookies on your computer when you look at
our website. Cookies are pieces of information
that a website transfers to the hard drive of a
visitor's computer for record-keeping purposes.
This information facilitates your use of our
website and ensures that you do not need to
re-enter your details every time you visit it. You
can erase or choose to block this information from
your computer if you want to; please refer to your
browser settings to do so. Erasing or blocking
such information may limit the range of features
available to the visitor on our website. We use
also use such information to provide visitors a
personalised experience on our website. We may use
such information to allow visitors to use the
website without logging on upon returning, to
auto-populate email forms, to make improvements
and to better tailor our website to our visitors'
needs. We also use this information to verify that
visitors meet the criteria required to process
their requests.
Security
We have implemented technology
and policies, with the objective of protecting
your privacy from unauthorised access and improper
use, and periodically review the same.
Third Parties
1. For your convenience, this page may contain
certain hyperlinks to other SMCS pages as well as to websites
outside SMCS. In addition, you may have linked to our website
from another website. We cannot be responsible for the privacy
policies and practices of other websites, even if you access them
using links from our website. We can make no promises or guarantees
regarding data collection on the hyper-linked pages and on websites
that are not owned by SMCS. We recommend that you check the policy
of each website you visit, or link from, and contact the owners
or operators of such websites if you have any concerns or questions.
Contacting us
1. We aim to keep our information about you as
accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the
details you have supplied us with, please contact us as set out
below. If you wish to change or delete any of the personal information
you have entered while visiting our website or if you have any
questions about our privacy statement, e-mail the Data Manager
at
2. If you are concerned about our use of your personal
information, please contact us at ,
with the subject line, "privacy."
3. If at any time you would like to contact us, contact us at
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