Xyratex has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to respecting your privacy. The following defines our information gathering and dissemination practices of the Web site www.xyratex.com.

You can visit the Xyratex Web site without identifying any personal information about yourself. IP addresses are logged as a matter of course, but are only used for overall statistical trend analysis purposes.

The Web site is designed so that personal information is only collected when it is explicitly requested. Some examples of when we request personal information, such as name, business address and email address, are when literature or further sales information is requested. Once you have chosen to provide any personal information, this may be used by Xyratex or our selected business partners in support of your business relationship with us.

Some pages of the Xyratex Web site use cookies to manage access to secure software download pages. These cookies contain reference information only, but no personal information. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or not. However, by not accepting cookies you may not be allowed to access certain information.

A “cookie” is a small data file transferred by a website to the hard drive of a computer. Xyratex sends a cookie to your computer when you use the 'Download Center' (DLC) or 'Spares Request System' (SRS) services. Accepting the cookies used on our site does not give us access to your personal information, but we use the cookies to identify your computer to ensure that access to the DLC / SRS is only given to web visitors who have been granted permission. You can not use the DLC / SRS if you turn off cookies on your computer - you will need to contact us offline to apply for access to information contained on the DLC / SRS. The cookies used are “Session” cookies, which do not stay on your computer after you leave our website or close your browser.

You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences at the following website:

Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm

The Xyratex Download Center is designed to protect data provided online. Xyratex uses industry standard security measures including 128 bit SSL encryption.

The Xyratex Web site contains links to other sites. Xyratex can take no responsibility for the privacy practices or content of such Web sites.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, or would like to stop receiving information from Xyratex, or would like to correct or update information provided to Xyratex, please contact us by sending an email to info@us.xyratex.com.