DESSO Holding NV ("DESSO") strives to achieve the highest standards of integrity for every online visitor. When you register at the DESSO website, we aim to respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth how we handle information we obtain from you and learn about you when you visit our Web site.

DESSO collects two types of information about you when you visit our site:

• personal information (including, by way of example only, your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address), and
• non-personal, aggregate information (such as information regarding the pages on our site that you have visited and your IP address).

Personally-Identifiable Information - What We Collect

The only personally-identifying information we collect and store about you is the information that you choose to provide to us.

Your Personal Portfolio
The DESSO portfolio is an easy way to keep track of the DESSO products you like. Visitors can establish a portfolio by submitting their name (required), physical and e-mail addresses and telephone number (optional), and by choosing a password (required). To access the portfolio, visitors will be required to enter their username (a combination of their first and last names) and password.

Electronic Mail
We will also gather your personally-identifiable information when you send us an e-mail. We will use this information to respond to your e-mail. We may also use the information to send you notifications about our service.

Sharing Your Information
We may share your personally-identifiable information with companies within the DESSO family of companies.

We use outside shipping companies to ship all commercial orders, as well as all overnight shipments for consumer orders. If you order from us, we will share your personally-identifiable information with these companies to fulfill your order. We will also share our commercial customers' Federal Express and UPS account numbers with these companies in order to fulfill commercial orders.

An outside company responds to consumer and commercial requests for additional information about our products. We will share your personally-identifiable information with any such company in order to respond to your request.

Non Personally-Identifiable Information
What We Collect We collect and use non-personally identifiable information about you in the following ways:

Cookies
At certain points in your visit to the DESSO site, our server may send a "cookie" file to your computer. Your Web browser may prompt you to accept this file unless you have set your browser preferences to accept all cookies automatically. Cookies are employed primarily as a service to our customers, to extend the relevance and responsiveness of the DESSO site. We may link cookie information with any personally-identifiable information you provide us.

Other Non-Personally-Identifiable Information
The DESSO website may collect non-personally identifiable information during your visit, such as type of browser, operating system, domain name or IP address. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Webservers -- the big computers that "serve" up Web pages -- automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you visit pages on DESSO's website our servers log your IP address. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. This means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. IP address information is used only to improve the service of the DESSO site, and is then discarded at the end of each session on our site.

DESSO also collects information through "referrers" and various environmental variables. A "referrer" is information the web browser passes along to DESSO's web server that references the URL from which you came. "Environmental variables" include, among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet, the time you accessed our Web site, type of Web browser and operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the Web site you left to visit DESSO, the names of the pages you visit while at our website, and the Internet address of the website you then visit. We collect all of this information to allow us to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on DESSO's website. DESSO may store "referrer" information for a limited period of time prior to deleting this information.

Profiling
To help us improve our website and to ensure that we make every effort to provide you with information and offers that are of interest to you, we may merge your personally-identifiable information with click-stream data and other data we have (including cookies and offline data). We will provide notice of this, as well as an opportunity to opt-out of it, at the time and place of information collection and before data is entered on our system.

We may also develop a non-identifiable profile on you based on the pages within our site that you visit.

Links
This Web site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every website that they visit. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected when you visit our website.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so you will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Choice
DESSO provides the following choices regarding the use of your information.

You may set your browser to reject cookies and to erase cookies that have already been placed on your hard drive. However, if you do so, your ability to navigate this site will be limited.
You may choose not to provide us with any contact information.
If you do not want your personal or nonpersonal information merged with cookie and other information, you should not use the DESSO website.

Access
You may request to see personally-identifiable information that we have collected about you via the Internet to update it or to have factual inaccuracies corrected by clicking here.

Security
We make every effort to have reasonable security procedures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control.