Last updated: February 1, 2003

Powerchip knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting our web site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Customers Does Powerchip Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at Powerchip. Here are the types of information we gather.

• Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing your user experience for you, improving our organization, and communicating with you.
• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses Powerchip.. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at Powerchip if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
• E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from Powerchip if your computer supports such capabilities. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please advise us by email.
• Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

What About Cookies?

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such remembering which country you are in, and what car you drive etc.
• The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Powerchip's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does Powerchip Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries Powerchip. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

• Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
• Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Powerchip, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
• Protection of Powerchip and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Website conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Powerchip, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
• With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
• We transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

Which Information Can I Access?
Powerchip gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your interactions with Powerchip for the limited purpose of viewing and updating that information. Click here.
(Please note that due to the structure of our customer database, you cannot change your email without re-registering your details.)

What Choices Do I Have?

• As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase.
• You can add or update certain information on the profile page. When you update information, we may keep a copy of the prior version for our records.
• If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please specify on the profile page. (If you do not want to receive Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of Powerchip, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
• The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, the Powerchip site will not operate correctly with cookies disabled.
• Click here to explore products that offer anonymous browsing. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.

Children
Powerchip does not sell products for purchase by children under the legal driving age. If you are under 16, you may use Powerchip only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit Powerchip, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern about privacy at Powerchip, please send us a thorough description to lmills@powerchipgroup.com, and we will try to resolve it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Information You Give Us
You provide most such information when you search, buy, email, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through Powerchip or one of our third-party sellers; make an Auction bid or purchase; provide information in the datasheet or register sections; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; provide company information when applying to be a Powerchip partner; provide feedback; or subscribe to a newsletter. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; and financial information, including Social Security and driver's license numbers.

Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history, and the phone number you used to call our 800 number.

Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information,; search term and search result; and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.

Information You Can Access
Examples of information you can access easily at Powerchip include up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail, password, communications preferences, address book); payment settings (including credit card information); e-mail notification settings (including alerts and newsletters) as contained in our profile page.

Keeping your identity anonymous
www.anonymizer.com
www.IDzap.com
www.zeroknowledge.com
These websites assist consumers in limiting the amount and type of information given to web sites.We cannot vouch for the effectiveness of any of these products. You can find a variety of books about privacy in general and privacy on the Web. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.