CDI uses (and, where specified, shares) your personal information for the following purposes:
To engage in transactions. CDI may use personal information such as name, physical address, telephone number, email address, and company to engage in transactions with you, including contacting you about your order.
To process transactions. CDI may use financial/credit card and payment information to process your order. CDI may need to share some of this information with delivery services, credit card clearing houses and other similarly situated third parties to complete the transaction.
To provide support or other services. CDI may use your personal information to provide you support or other services you have ordered, as well as product updates, product patches and fixes and other similar communications.
To tailor marketing to your needs and respond to your requests. CDI may use information from your order, your cdlac.com profile, or other specified requirements to provide you with notices of new product releases and service developments. CDI also may use your personal information to respond directly to your requests for information, including registrations for newsletters or other specific requests, or pass your contact information to the appropriate CDI distributor or reseller to respond to your request. In addition, CDI may ask if you wish to have your contact information shared with other selected partners that offer complementary products or services. If you agree, CDI will provide your contact information to those partners. Please review the specific partner's privacy policy regarding any further interactions with them.
To provide online forums. Some services available on the Web sites permit you to participate in interactive discussions or post comments or opportunities to a bulletin board or exchange. Some of these services are moderated; all may be accessed for technical reasons. CDI does not control the content that users post to these forums. You should carefully consider whether you wish to submit personal information to these forums and should tailor any content you submit appropriately and in accordance with the relevant terms of use.
To administer product downloads. CDI may contact you if you download products so that it may confirm certain information about your order (for example, that you did not experience problems in the download process) or to discuss the downloaded products or to provide marketing or sales information about related products and services. CDI also may use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use.
To select content, improve quality and facilitate use of the Web Sites. CDI may use your personal information, including the information gathered as a result of site navigation and electronic protocols and cookies (including third party cookies), to help create and personalize Web site content, facilitate your use of the Web sites (for example, to facilitate navigation and the login process, avoid duplicate data entry, enhance security, keep track of shopping cart additions and preserve order information between sessions), improve Web site quality, track marketing campaign responsiveness, and evaluate page response rates.
To provide various CDI communities, such as partners, with relevant product alerts and updates. If you sign up for an CDI community, CDI will also provide you information in which you have expressed an interest related to new product releases, alerts, updates, prices, terms, special offers and associated campaigns.
To power joint sales or product promotions. CDI and its partners may engage in joint sales or product promotions. Such promotions will always reference the partners involved. Both CDI and the partner(s) will have access to that information, and either CDI or our partners may provide you the sales or product promotion information. We recommend you review the privacy policies of these partners to address your particular needs and concerns.
To contact a referral/"tell a friend". If you elect to use our referral service to inform a friend about our site, we will ask you for the friend's name and email address. CDI will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. CDI uses this personal information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact CDI at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to be removed from the referral program.
To communicate with you about a conference or event. We or our partners may communicate with you about a conference or event hosted or co-sponsored by CDI or one of our partners. This may include information about the event's content, event logistics, payment, updates, and any additional meetings, special demonstrations or other customer facilitation that we may provide related to the event. CDI may contact you after the event about the event and related products and services. CDI will also permit designated partners or conference sponsors to send you up to two communications through the services of a third party bonded warehouse. Please note that our partners or conference sponsors may directly request your personal information at their conference booths or presentations; however, providing your information is optional, and you should review their privacy policies to address your particular needs and concerns.
To comply with legal requirements. CDI may be required to disclose your personal information in order to comply with legally mandated reporting, disclosure or other legal process requirements. CDI will use reasonable efforts to limit the personal information it provides for this purpose.
Please note that your personal information may be transferred, accessed and stored globally as necessary for the uses stated above in accordance with this policy.
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