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This page provides the terms of use and policies governing this site, as well as trademark and copyright information for the site and DNASTAR products, logos and services.
Copyright, Acknowledgements and References
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- Documents published by DNASTAR on this website may not be copied other than for non-commercial individual reference, with all copyright or other proprietary notices retained, and thereafter may not be recopied, reproduced or otherwise distributed.
- To print photographs or files of computational results (figures and/or data) obtained using DNASTAR software; acknowledge the source in an appropriate format. For example: "Alignment results obtained and images created using Lasergene MegAlign software from DNASTAR, Inc."
DNASTAR may grant permission to republish or reprint its copyrighted materials. Requests should be submitted to DNASTAR support electronically or by mail to DNASTAR, Inc., 3801 Regent Street, Madison, WI 53705, Attention: General Manager.
Please include an acknowledgement "Reprinted with permission from DNASTAR, Inc., Madison, WI", when granted permission to reprint DNASTAR copyrighted materials.
Privacy Policy
DNASTAR is committed to providing you with excellent service. As part of our commitment, we recognize your right to privacy, and have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy practices.
Information We Gather from You
Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you. We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to ask questions, request information and materials, request demonstration software, or provide comments and suggestions. The information provided, such as your name and telephone number, will be used to help us satisfy your request, as described below.
Statistical Information About Your Visit
When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit on our site, from which domains our visitors reach our site, and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit for aggregation purposes only. These statistics are used to help us improve the performance of our website.
Surveys
From time-to-time we may request information from customers via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of, and satisfaction with this website, and improving our customer service and product offerings.
Use of Cookies
We only use "cookies" as described in this section. A "cookie" is a piece of information that our website sends to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. Use of cookies is essential for certain parts of our website. Without enabling cookies, some sections of www.dnastar.com may not function properly. Our website uses cookies to "remember" your log-in information in order to help you navigate the website as seamlessly as possible. The cookie will be removed when you log-out or after 24 hours. You should be aware that cookies contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to "invade" your hard drive and return to the sender with personal or other information from your computer.
How We Use the Information We Gather
Responding to Requests
We generally respond to any questions, requests for product information, and other inquiries that we receive. Our response may be in the form of an e-mail, telephone call, fax, or letter. We may retain this correspondence to improve our products, services, and website, and for other disclosed purposes.
We provide an "Opt-in" e-mail service for regular updates on our products and services. However, we may, from time-to-time, use additional contact information, such as e-mail addresses, mailing addresses and phone numbers, to share important product announcements. We retain contact information so that we can send individuals updates or other important information about our services and products.
Facilitating the support, renewal, and purchase of our products and services
We may use the information you submit to contact you to discuss the support, renewal, and purchase of our products and services. We may also provide the information you have submitted to us to a licensed distributor of DNASTAR products and services. Our distributors help us to provide our non-U.S.-based customers with support, assistance, and the provision of our products and services in their local markets. You may receive a communication directly from one of our representatives. Please be assured that if you are contacted by one or more of these entities for one of these purposes, they have agreed to use the information we supply only in accordance with a confidentiality agreement. If you would like to find the names and location of DNASTAR distributors, please click here.
Terms of Use
This website has been designed to provide general information about DNASTAR, Inc. and its affiliates. DNASTAR has attempted to provide accurate and current information on this website; however, DNASTAR makes no representations about the suitability of the information contained or published on this website for any purpose. All such information is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. No warranty or representation is made, express or implied, that the information contained or referenced herein is accurate, current or complete. Furthermore, DNASTAR shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for direct, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages resulting from the use of, or inability to use, this information or any information provided through linked websites.
This website may contain third party information. Such information is, wherever reasonably possible, marked with the name of the source. Such third party information does not represent the views or opinions of DNASTAR and DNASTAR takes no responsibility whatsoever for such information.
This website also contains links to third party websites. DNASTAR is providing these links only as a convenience and the inclusion of any such links does not imply endorsement by DNASTAR of such third party websites. DNASTAR does not have any knowledge of or control over the information contained in such third party websites, and therefore, does not take any responsibility whatsoever for any information or content contained in such third-party websites, links contained on such third-party websites or changes to such third-party websites.
Should any viewer of this website provide DNASTAR feedback, information or data, whether in the form of questions, comments, suggestions or otherwise, such information shall be deemed to be non-confidential. DNASTAR shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information, and shall be free to use any information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose whatsoever and to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute such information to third parties without limitation. (Note that personal contact information is covered by our privacy policy above).
DNASTAR reserves the right to alter the content of its website in any way, at any time and for any reason, without prior notification, and will not be liable in any way for possible consequences of such changes or for inaccuracies, typographical errors or omissions in the contents hereof.
Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right under any patent or trademark of DNASTAR or any third party. Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any right or license under any DNASTAR copyrights. The use or misuse of any such trademarks, patents or copyrights provided hereunder, except as permitted herein, is expressly prohibited and may be in violation of patent law, trademark law or copyright law, the law of slander and libel, the law of privacy and publicity and communications regulations and statutes. Please be advised that DNASTAR actively and aggressively enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.
Trademark Information
This page contains the most current information on DNASTAR trademarks. The absence of a name or logo in this list does not constitute a waiver of any intellectual property rights that DNASTAR, Inc. has established in any of our product, feature, or service names or logos.
ArrayStar®
DNA*®
DNASTAR®
EditSeqTM
GeneManTM
GeneQuestTM
GenVisionTM
Lasergene®
MegAlignTM
MapDrawTM
Method CurtainTM
NGenTM
PrimerSelectTM
ProteanTM
QSeqTM
SeqBuilderTM
Seq-Easy®
SeqManTM
StarBlast®
Windows® and Windows Vista® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh®, Mac OS®, Boot Camp®, LeopardTM, and Snow LeopardTM are registered trademarks or trademarks of Apple, Inc. Intel® and Pentium® are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. 454TM is a trademark of Roche Diagnostics Corporation. MacVector® and GCG® are registered trademarks of Accelrys Inc. Sequencher® is a registered trademark of Gene Codes Corporation. pGEM® is a registered trademark of Promega Corporation. The following products are either registered trademarks, trademarks, or copyrighted materials of Life Technologies Corporation: TOPO, Gateway, Vector NTI, pENTR, Lumio, DEST, pcDNA, pDONR, BioEase, GeneBLAzer, BLOCK-iT, Gus, Xpress Zeocin, pCR, CAT, and HisMax. Sentinel® is a registered trademark of SafeNet, Inc. KeyServer®, KeyAccess®, and KeyVerify® are registered trademarks of Sassafras Software Inc. PROSITE® is a registered trademark of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Adobe® Illustrator® and Adobe® PostScript® are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. BeadStudioTM is a trademark of Illumina Corporation. Affymetrix® and NetAffxTM are registered trademarks or trademarks of Affymetrix, Inc. Parallels Desktop® is a registered trademark of Parallels Holdings, Ltd. VMware® is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.