Schmidt Commitment to Data Privacy Protection

Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to Schmidt; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. We hope the policy outlined below will help you understand what data Schmidt may collect, how Schmidt uses and safeguards that data and with whom we may share it.

Personal data

Through our Web sites, Schmidt will not collect any personal data about you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), unless you voluntarily choose to provide us with it (e.g. by registration, survey), respectively, provide your consent, or unless otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations for the protection of your personal data.

Purpose of Use

When you do provide us with personal data, we usually use it to respond to your inquiry, process your order or provide you access to specific information or offers. Also, to support our customer relationship with you:

• we may store and process personal data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to better understand your business needs and how we can improve our products and services; or
• we (or a third party on our behalf) may use personal data to contact you about a Schmidt offer in support of your business needs or to conduct online surveys to understand better our customers' needs.

If you choose not to have your personal data used to support our customer relationship (especially direct marketing or market research), we will respect your choice. We do not disclose or transfer your personal data to third parties unless for the purposes hereinbefore stated of expressly disclosed to you.

Purpose Limitation

Schmidt will collect, use or disclose personal data supplied by you online only for the purposes disclosed to you, unless the disclosure:

• is a use of the personal data for any additional purpose that is directly related to the original purpose for which the personal data was collected,
• is required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities,
• is necessary to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense,
• is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as willful attacks on Schmidt information technology systems.

Communications or Utilization Data

Through your use of telecommunications services to access our Web site, your communications data (e.g. Internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g. information on the beginning, end and extent of each access, and information on the telecommunications services you accessed) are technically generated and could conceivably relate to personal data. To the extent that there is a compelling necessity, the collection, processing and use of your communications or utilization data will occur and will be performed in accordance with the applicable data privacy protection legal framework.

Non-Personal Data Collected Automatically

When you access our Web sites, we may automatically (i.e., not by registration) collect non-personal data (e.g. type of Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the Web site from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed). We may use this data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to monitor the attractiveness of our Web sites and improve their performance or content.

Security

To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, Schmidt uses technical and organizational security measures.

Links to Other Web Sites

Schmidt Web sites contain links to other Web sites. Schmidt is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites.