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SME PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Statement sets forth the practices of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers (SME) regarding the collection and use of information relating to the
SME website and other activities of SME.

SME created its policy with a fundamental respect for the rights to privacy of
our members, customers and visitors.

Some pages of the website may be accessed only by members of SME, SME Committees
or affiliates, although most of the website may be accessed by all who visit the
website.

Information Collection and Use

When registering for our educational events or trade shows, using our website,
ordering products and signing up for certain selected services (such as free
subscriptions), you may be asked for information about yourself, including but
not limited to contact information (such as name, e-mail address, mailing
address and phone number) or demographic information (such as job title and
purchasing responsibilities, company information and professional
certification).

If you sign up to become a member of SME, you are asked for personal information
such as your education level, interests and date of birth. This information is
used to better understand our membership and is not disclosed to outside
organizations.

Some of our publications, products and services are free to subscribers who meet
certain demographic criteria. Independent auditors may need to certify the
eligibility of these subscribers. To do that, we may ask you for information
(such as mother's maiden name), which we disclose to the auditors strictly for
audit verification purposes.

For our services that require payment (such as certain events, products and
subscriptions), we collect credit card information (such as account name, number
and expiration date), which is used for billing purposes only, and is not
otherwise shared, except with a reputable third-party processing vendor. SME
uses secure socket layer (SSL) technology when you make purchases or send credit
card and login information to SME.

We offer some interactive and community features such as discussion boards,
webcasts and user profiles. Personal information sent or posted via such
features becomes public information for which we are not responsible.

We have features through which you may submit information to us (such as our
feedback forms). Requests for service, support or information may be forwarded
as needed to best respond to a specific request. Under some circumstances, we
may retain e-mails and other information sent to us for our internal
administrative purposes, and to help us better serve customers.

From time to time we may invite you to provide information via surveys or
contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and
therefore you have a choice whether to disclose requested contact information
(such as name and mailing address) and demographic information (such as zip code
or job title). In addition to other uses set forth in this policy, contact
information collected in connection with surveys and contests is used to notify
the winners and award prizes and may be shared with sponsors of such surveys or
contests.

Automatically collected data

Web servers automatically collect information about visitors, and ours does as
well. This information includes the date, time and navigation history of the
session, as well as your browser type, and IP address. This information does not
contain anything that can identify you personally. Automatically collected data
may be used to deliver content specific to your interests and to honor your
preferences.

We use "cookies," (a "cookie" is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user). Cookies make it possible for us to
reduce the number of times you are required to login or to tailor the website to
fit your interests. Most Internet browsers allow you to erase cookies from your
computer hard drive, block cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is
stored. Please refer to the instructions or help screen of your browser to learn
how it handles cookies.

Some of our business affiliates may use cookies on our sites in ads or
promotions. We have no access to or control over these business affiliates'
cookies, so we urge you to read their privacy policies for information.

Information about you that may be stored in our database

We may check the information you have provided during the shopping process or
via any of our forms, e-mail, forums or discussion groups against any
information we have about you in our customer database. We do this to ensure
that we maintain the most current and accurate information about you as a valued
customer.

Our database may contain your name, title, affiliation, industry classification,
address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address, if you provide them. We may
also collect additional information about you including but not limited to: site
registration, member ID numbers and your participation with SME (magazine
subscriptions, offices, committees, councils, boards or task forces on which you
serve or have served, membership status, meetings attended, products purchased,
events attended, etc.).

How we use information about you

Automatically collected data such as cookies and log files help us understand
the interests of our visitors in order to enhance their experience on our sites.
We also use this information for our internal security audit log, trend analysis
and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our
user base for aggregate use.

We may use information you have provided to process transactions you request. We
may also use this information to inform you of new products and upcoming events
that may be of interest to you, based on your participation in SME activities,
purchases of products — or interests in technologies you have indicated. You may
choose not to receive these communications.

We may combine demographic information you have supplied with site usage data to
produce general profiles, in aggregate form that cannot identify you personally,
about our members, customers' and visitors and their preferences in the content
of the site and advertising.

We use aggregate demographic information about our members, customers and
visitors to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry
reporting purposes.

Shared data

We partner with other third parties to provide specific services. For example,
exposition registration services may be provided by a third party. These third
parties are not allowed to use information about you except for the purpose of
providing these services.

We may share aggregated or composite information that does not identify you
personally with our advertisers, exhibitors and business affiliates. SME may be
required to provide information about any of its customers or prospective
customers to law enforcement or government agencies.

Your Choices Concerning Access, Correction and Deletion of Your Personal Data

We provide you with reasonable access to the personal information that you have
provided through your use of our services. You may update, correct, or delete
your account information and preferences at any time by accessing your account
settings from our website. Please note that while any changes you make will be
reflected in our user database within a reasonable period of time, we may retain
all information you submit for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and
abuse, analytics, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a
legitimate reason to do so.

If you wish to access or amend any personal information we hold about you, or
request that we delete any information about you, you may contact us as set
forth in the “Contact, questions, comments, complaints” section.

You may decline to share certain personal information with us, in which case we
may not be able to provide to you some of the features and services that we
offer.

Security

We utilize appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a
reasonable level of security. When our registration/order form asks users to
enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security
number), that information is encrypted and is protected utilizing SSL
encryption.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that SME cannot be
responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We urge you to read the
privacy statements of websites that collect personally identifiable information.

Students and children

SME will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone
under 16 years of age, unless it is necessary to respond to a one-time request.
Once the request has been answered, SME will delete the requesting child's
personally identifiable information.

Preferences, permission, opt-out

If you wish to be excluded from marketing by SME via mail and/or e-mail, phone
or fax, please contact SME at 800.733.4763 or e-mail privacy@sme.org to make
that change to your account.

Updates to this privacy statement

SME may, in its sole discretion, update this statement at any time by posting
the amended statement on the website, and it shall be effective upon posting.

Contact, questions, comments, complaints

If you would like to communicate with SME regarding privacy issues, or have
questions, comments or complaints regarding this website or its policy
practices, or if you feel that SME is not abiding by our privacy policy
statement, please contact SME at 800.733.4763 or e-mail privacy@sme.org.

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