At Thermo Electron, we take your privacy seriously. In general, you can visit Thermo Electron on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with Thermo Electron.

Thermo Electron provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy and practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Within the Thermo Electron web site, you can order products or services, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are name, contact and billing information (including shipping address and end-user), transaction, and credit card information.

In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously improve our products and services, we may also ask you to voluntarily provide us with information regarding the analytical instrumentation in your laboratory, industry, experience with our products, and contact preferences.

Thermo Electron uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on services and benefits, and to personalize our web site for you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for other purposes

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the option of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact.

Thermo Electron will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the uses described above. Thermo Electron will make every effort to apply local country laws and policies where they differ from those in the U.S., if any.

Thermo Electron is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. For example, we use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.

If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please visit the contact us page and select "contact your service rep" and then select "other" from the list of subject areas. An e-mail will be dispatched to a member of the Thermo eBusiness team, and someone will respond to you shortly.