Privacy Policy

FEI Company values your privacy, and recognizes our commitment to protect any personal information you choose to share with us on www.fei.com, as well as any software applications and information services related to this Website. FEI has outlined our policies below to ensure your understanding of the information we collect, how it is used, and how it is protected.

Notice: FEI gathers only the information that is essential to providing good service to our customers, partners and Website visitors. We do not sell, lease or license confidential information to third parties except for those third parties who are directly related to the delivery and service of our products and services.

We use your Internet protocol address to help diagnose problems and performance with our Web-based delivery service and to administer our Website. This site also collects the referring URL for tracking Web traffic referred from other sites.

Personal Information: FEI does not associate personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, or e-mail address, with non-personally identifiable information, such as Internet protocol addresses, to create personal user profiles. Although FEI does receive your email address along with your site registration or form submittal, no other personal information is collected unless you choose to provide additional information as described below. We will never send you unsolicited emails.

On occasion we will collect personal contact information through our Website to allow people to register for use of special areas of the Website or to register for downloadable materials or FEI seminars, receive newsletters, or other services. The purpose of collecting the information is to enable FEI to deliver the requested services and to contact the individual about the requested service, if necessary.

Collected personal contact information will be kept in an active FEI database until the conclusion of the seminar or service and will be used for future communications from FEI only with explicit permission from the individual. It will not be sold, leased or combined with other data to create personal user profiles.

FEI.com for Owners: FEI.com for Owners is an exclusive are of FEI.com only for owners and users of FEI instruments. Registration is required. During the registration process, FEI asks registrants to provide information used to validate their status as an owner or user. Registrant information is stored in a secure environment by an authorized vendor of FEI. The information you provide will not be used for other marketing or sales purposes unless the registrant expressly "opts-in" to receive additional communications from FEI. Once registration is completed, a cookie is placed on the registrant's computer to enable their return to the site without having to login again. This cookie lasts for two weeks, and is automatically removed if the user does not return to FEI.com. The registrant may manually delete this cookie at any time.

Email Links: We use email links to allow site users to contact FEI directly with questions or comments. We do not sell, lease or license this information to third parties. Collected personal or business information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments. FEI may file your comments for the purposes of evaluating how FEI can improve our site or services, or FEI may review and discard the information.

Outbound Links: This site contains links to other sites. We make an effort to encourage our partner sites to comply with the current best practices for the electronic collection of personal and confidential information. However, neither FEI nor www.fei.com is responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites or their associated companies and partners. FEI recommends that you review the privacy policy on other sites to ensure that you understand how they address issues related to the use of your personal information.

Choice / Access: We require user consent before collecting or using any personal information. Users may always decline to receive communications from us or they may decline offers of access to special resources or Website sections. Users may review, modify or remove from active use their information in FEI's database, or choose to no longer receive communications from FEI via the user profile management tool located on www.fei.com.