Privacy Policy - Effective September 5, 2006

Restrictions on Use of Materials
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General Disclaimer

THE EMISSIONS CONTROL TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED AND SUBSIDIARY OPERATIONS, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AND EMPLOYEES (HEREINAFTER COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS ECTA) DO NOT MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN REGARD TO THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, DATA, APPARATUS, PRODUCT OR PROCESS (HEREINAFTER COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS INFORMATION) DISCLOSED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE. FURTHER, ECTA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO ANY USER OR ANYONE ELSE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CONSEQUENTIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF, ATTEMPTED USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE.

ECTA respects your privacy. You do not need to disclose any personal information in order to view this Web site. This notice explains our online information practices, and describes how and to what extent we collect information when you visit this Web site. ECTA will respond to direct inquiries from site visitors, but we do not otherwise use information collected from visitors to our site for marketing or other purposes, and ECTA does not provide or sell such information to third parties. We may use the information supplied by you or your browser to track the popularity of this site and the usefulness of particular links or features. This Privacy Policy will be periodically assessed as new technologies are developed and when visitors' needs change. When necessary, we will modify our Privacy Policy to reflect legal, technological and other developments. When modifications occur, they will appear in this policy statement.

Information ECTA Collects Automatically from You
ECTA collects no personally-identifiable information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we do collect and store certain other information automatically that does not identify you personally. We automatically collect:
· the Internet domain. For example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain
· the Internet Protocol (IP) address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you access the Internet (e.g., 123.123.123.123), whether it is yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) through which you access our Web site

the type of browser and operating system used to access our Web site
the date and time you access our Web site
the pages on our Web site that you access
the address of a referring Web site (if you linked to our site from another Web site)

We use this information in the form of summary statistics to help us make our Web site more useful to our visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest, and for other purposes such as determining the Web site's design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone except ECTA and its member companies.

Our Commitment to Security
ECTA employs security measures to prevent unauthorized access to information that we collect online. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. Please note that e-mail is not secure from interception, so senders cannot expect privacy. This also applies to sending online forms, unless the form is secure. If you would rather not submit information via email, you may wish to send it by traditional mail or courier instead to the following address:

Cookies
Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. They enable us to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. We will not use our cookies to determine any personally identifiable information about you. ECTA session cookies stored in your computer's memory are automatically removed when you quit your browser. ECTA cookies stored in a file on your computer's hard disk will have an expiration date after which time they will no longer be valid.

Links to Other Sites
Users may through hypertext or other computer "links" gain access to other sites on the Internet that are not part of the ECTA's Web site and over which ECTA has no control. When you link to another site, you are no longer on this site and are subject to the privacy policy, if any, of the linked site.

Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time without advance notice. If we do change our policy, the new policy will not go into effect until it is posted here and will only apply to information collected after the new policy is in effect.

Questions and Comments
For further information about our privacy practices please send an e-mail to webmaster. We will do our utmost to respond to your query within 14 days. Effective Date: