Corporate Policies PRIVACY STATEMENT Catalytic is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our web site. Protecting your privacy and your personal information is an important aspect of the way Catalytic conducts business. This web page outlines our privacy policy. This privacy statement explains what information we collect and why, as well as what you can do about it. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter this privacy statement at any time. Such changes will be posted at this same location, and are effective immediately upon posting. Please review this statement periodically. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised privacy statement. This page was last updated February 10, 2005. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION You can access our website home page and browse our site without disclosing personal information. We will only use personal information provided by you for the purposes for which it was collected. We have implemented internal technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from: unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. We will remove personal information from our system where it is no longer required (except where archiving is required). We record computer IP addresses so that we can monitor which parts of the Site are visited, for how long, and other non-personal information to optimize our Site for your computer (i.e., the identity of your Internet browser, the type of operating system you use). However, the user associated with the IP address remains anonymous. Catalytic also records email addresses from visitors who elect to order Catalytic products online. The Site is not specifically targeted at children under the age of 13 and Catalytic does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from such children. USE AND SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION Catalytic may use non-personal information for internal purposes, including but not limited to improving the content of our Site. Should you choose to provide Catalytic with your email address, we will use it to contact you with news about the company and updates to our products and services. We have taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected is secure, including the number of people who have physical access to its database servers. Although Catalytic strives to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you may transmit to us. Any transmittal of personal information to Catalytic is done so at your own risk. COOKIES Cookies are data that a web site transfers to a Site visitor's hard-drive to enable our systems to recognize your browser for record-keeping purposes, and so that you can be recognized on future visits. Cookies are an industry standard used by most web sites to facilitate a user's ongoing access to and personalized use of a site. LINKS Catalytic may provide links to other web sites. Catalytic does not have control over these linked sites, however. Each such site has its own separate privacy and data collection practices. Catalytic is not responsible or liable for these independent policies and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Catalytic provides these links for your convenience and because we think you might find them interesting, but access is at your own risk.