Privacy Statement

Guidant Measurement is committed to respecting your online privacy. For your convenience, we have made it possible to reach this page from every page on our web site.

At Guidant, we recognize the need to protect and manage any personal information that you provide to us. Personal Information means any information that can identify you individually, such as your name, physical address, e-mail address, or other contact information that is not publicly available.

If you choose to supply Personal Information via our web site, we may use that information to supply you, from time to time, with information about our company and/or products. We may transfer that Information within Guidant, across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.

Our goal is to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy. Even though legal requirements may vary from country to country, Guidant intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Privacy Statement whether or not we transfer your Personal Information from your country to countries that may not require an "adequate" level of protection for your Personal Information.

Tracking Online Behavior

Many Guidant web pages use "cookies". A "cookie" is a small amount of text stored on your computer and accessed via your browser. We use cookies primarily to help us make our web site more useful to people who visit it. We also use other means to track such information as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; which pages are requested; dates and times that our site is accessed; and similar types of information, but not e-mail addresses.

Our use of cookies and other tracking methods allows us to improve our Internet site and your experience when visiting that site. We may also evaluate trends and statistics that do not contain Personal Information.

Your Choices

You may choose to block and/or remove all cookies to the extent that your browser allows you to do so. This web site collects Personal Information only if you choose to give it.

If you choose not to provide Personal Information and/or choose to block cookies, you can still visit most of our web pages, but you may not be able to access certain pages that require us to interact with you, whether through the web site or through other means.

If you choose to have a contractual or other business relationship with Guidant, we will, of course, continue to contact you in connection with that business relationship.

Confidentiality

Wherever your Personal Information may be held within Guidant or on its behalf, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure. We do not sell, rent, or share Personal Information collected from our web site to anyone not authorized to act directly or indirectly on Guidant's behalf, except as necessary to comply with subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We periodically review our methods of maintaining confidentiality.

Updates

Our goal is to maintain accurate Personal Information, if you choose to provide that information to Guidant. You may provide Guidant with updates, corrections, requests to remove Personal Information from our records, or make any other comments about this site and privacy matters by sending an e-mail describing your request to TechnicalCommunications@GuidantMeasurement.com.

We will make reasonable efforts to act on your request as soon as we can. While it is not possible to guarantee absolute privacy, it is our goal to address any related issue to the best of our abilities and as soon as we can.

Children

This web site is not designed to attract children. As such, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 21 years of age.

Consent

By using this web site, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Statement, the Terms of Use, and to Guidant's processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above as well as those explained elsewhere on this web site. Should the Privacy Statement change, we will post that change here or at another location that is prominently accessible and/or send an e-mail notice to the address you provide as part of your Personal Information.