Galactic Privacy Practice Statements

Respect for the privacy of personal information about you is very important to us. Galactic and its subsidiary websites are committed to collecting, maintaining, and securing personal information about you in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations. Before browsing our websites, please read these statements carefully:

1. Personal Information
a) Personal information's disclosure and collection
Galactic will not collect your personal information (e.g. name, address, phone number, email address) online through its website unless you willfully permit so (e.g. thru user registration or survey response) or with the permission by laws to protect personal information.
If you provide your personal information, Galactic will normally use them to respond to your enquiries, to process your orders, to provide information or quotations and to maintain customer relations:
¡¤ Galactic may store, process and share your personal information with collaborative partners in order to make product and service improvements accordingly
¡¤ Galactic (or our collaborative partners) can use this information to answer your business requests and to obtain information via online surveys to better understand your needs
¡¤ Should you object to maintaining a customer relationship with Galactic via such information (especially thru direct sales and market surveys), Galactic shall honor your decision. Galactic shall not sell or disclosure your personal information to 3rd parties other than our collaborative partners.

b) Restrictive use of personal information
Galactic shall select, use or disclose your personal information provided online upon informing you of the purpose of its usage, unless the disclosure is:
¡¤ for the use relating to personal information initiation
¡¤ for the necessity of contract preparation, negotiation, and execution
¡¤ requested by laws, Government or Judiciary Department
¡¤ for the purpose of litigation or defense
¡¤ for the necessity of fraud or other illegal actions such as hostile tampering with Galactic's IT system

2. Automatically Collected Non-personal Information
As you visit Galactic's website, Galactic shall automatically collect non-personal data (e.g. your Internet browser and operating system, the websites which you had visited before visiting our website, frequency of visit, average time of visit, web pages per visit, etc.) Galactic may use and share this information with our subsidiaries worldwide in order to enhance our website contents.

3. "Cookies" ¨C Automatically Loaded Data Files
As you visit Galactic's website, Galactic may insert a small data file called "cookie" into your computer's hard drive to help identify your next visit to our website. Cookies help us to create web information according to your interest, save passwords (so that you do not have to enter it each time you log-on). If you refuse to be identified, please refer to your Internet browser instructions for clearing cookies from your hard drive, blocking them, or giving out a warning before saving them in your hard drive.

4. Information Security
Galactic shall take reasonable steps to ensure personal information's security and accuracy, to protect this information in its possession from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

5. Disclaimer
Galactic claims no liability whatsoever under the following circumstances:
a) personal information disclosure due to your sharing of user password or registered account with another person
b) personal information's unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction caused by Y2K bug, hackers, computer viruses, or temporary closure by government regulations, etc.
c) personal information disclosure and legal disputes caused by websites linked to Galactic's websites

6. Problems and Suggestions
To gain access to personal information about you collected online, and to keep it accurate, complete and current, you may contact us. If Galactic decides to update its privacy practices, we shall post these changes at this site.