Patents In Commerce, Inc. ("PIC") is the sole owner of the information collected on this Websites (hereinafter referred to as "site"). We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

On occasion, you may find sections of this Website which require registration prior access. Depending on what services or features you request, we may require specific personal and contact information. This information is used to provide you with enhanced features and services as follows:

• Delivery of our e-mail newsletters, or promotional materials from our partners, which you may have elected to receive,
• For authentication for access to sections of our websites that require LOGIN or password access.
• It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as interests, income level, company position, and gender), and unique identifiers (such as state or country of residence), but is encouraged so we can personalize your experience on this site.
• We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
• For your convenience, many sections of our site allow you to e-mail a copy of our page to your friend or associate. Using this feature requires you to enter your friend's e-mail address so that we may deliver the Web page. The e-mail address you enter is used one time only, and only to send the page you requested.

We will not share personal information that can identify any individual person to any third party. We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners.

For certain products or services offered by or through our sites, we rely on our partner / supplier to establish separate billing on occasion, and to ship orders or deliver a service directly to you. When you sign up for these services, we will share only your name and contact information that is absolutely necessary for the third party to provide these services to you. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes, and are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

On certain sections of the site, we may collect e-mail addresses you provide to us in response to your informed request to receive promotional or informational offers related to your special interests from third parties. E-mail addresses provided to us for promotional offers may be made available to the providers of those products or services.

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that PIC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password access to LOGIN to our company network. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.

If you have any questions about the security at our Website, you can send a message to Webmaster.

PIC is training resource. On occasion however, inventors may mistake us for an invention promotion company. WE ARE NOT AN INVENTION PROMOTION COMPANY, AND WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEND ANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR INVENTION TO US. There is nothing we can do with any unsolicited information about any invention that you may send to us. In order to protect your confidentiality, we handle unsolicited invention information in the following manner:

• We make every attempt to identify unsolicited invention submissions sent by mail or courier prior to opening it. If it appears to be invention information, we do not open it.
• Opened and unopened invention submissions will be destroyed, and no copies will be made. We will not notify you of destruction of this information, nor will we respond to your unsolicited submission except as outlined in the following return policy.
• We will not return any delivered packages to you unless it is so marked by you, and then only if you agree to pay for return postage.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If you reject the cookie, you may still use our site, but some important features you may want to use will be disabled. For example, you would not be able to record your progress on the certification participation portions of this site, and your use of the shopping cart system would restrict you to ordering not more than one product during a session.

You may read more information on cookies at www.cookiecentral.com

You have the opportunity to have your personal contact information removed from our site and related databases. Upon requesting to Opt Out, we will delete your contact information, as well as any data that you may have supplied during registration for certain customized features on our site. Upon requesting to have your data removed from our databases, you will lose access to those features you have selected (for example, your participation in the certificate of completion program will be stopped.)

You may have elected to receive our e-mail newsletters or promotional messages from our partners. If at any time you change your mind about receiving our occasional mailings, simply click on opt-out or un-subscribe instructions included at the end of the e-mail you receive.

• IN THE FUTURE: Science and educational books and materials may be sold to children under 13. The parent must provide a credit card number for verification that he/she is an adult. Upon verification, we will collect such e-mail, mailing address and similar information necessary to deliver the purchased products to the purchaser.
• IN THE FUTURE: Sections of this site may contain links to personal Web pages of children under 13 years old, however those links will be to web pages that reside on the server of a bona fide school or educational facility which will be maintained by that school's faculty or service provider. We will rely on the school's adult faculty to maintain child online safety standards under COPPA and school policy.
• We will not distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information collected from children under 13 except as previously described here.
• We use a technology called "cookies" as described in the previous section of this policy. We would also use these cookies to check the age of registered users who attempt to enter chat rooms that may be added to this site. Users under 13 will not permitted in chat rooms.

If you feel that PIC is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact our Webmaster or Customer Support.

Alternatively, you may communicate with either of these contacts at the following:

Patents in Commerce
15850 McCourtney Rd.

Grass Valley, CA 95949
admin @ patentsincommerce.com