Lab Animal is committed to providing quality information and services to the animal research community. In order to do this, we need to know a little about you. For the purposes of data protection, labanimal.com is the Internet publishing platform for Lab Animal. The website is hosted in the US, and on content distribution servers worldwide.

What information do we collect?

We collect only the domain name, but not the email address of visitors to our web pages, and any additional information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations. We also collect aggregate and user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit. The information we collect is used for internal review, to improve the content of our web pages, to notify consumers about updates to our website, and occasionally used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes. It is not sold or traded with other organizations for commercial purposes, though occasionally we may send you information on behalf of carefully selected commercial partners.

Cookies

We use cookies to record session information and to track a user's path through our websites. This enables us to respond to any problems with our service and to offer a more personalized service. We also use cookies to deliver banner advertisements that are appropriate to each visitor, but these do not uniquely identify our visitors in any way.

The search facility

Banner advertisements on the search results page may be matched to suit the results of your search.

What about the information requested during registration?

When registering at labanimal.com we need information from you that identifies you personally. These include your exact name, postal and email address. We also ask some further, voluntary questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. We use some parts of your personal information (such as your username, password and any print journal subscription numbers) to operate certain functions, for example, banner advertising, contained within the Lab Animal website. We need your email address in order to send you confirmation of your user identity and password.

If you supply information relating to your field of work, place of work, specialty and position, this may be used to determine the advertising banners that are displayed to you.

People who send us their telephone numbers online may receive telephone contact from Lab Animal with information regarding orders they have placed online, and with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events. If you send us your postal address online you may receive periodic mailings from Lab Animal with information on new products and services or upcoming events.

Information about advertisement servers

DoubleClick provides advertising on the Lab Animal website. As a result of your visit to our site, DoubleClick may collect information such as your top level domain, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, please consult the privacy policies of DoubleClick: http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/privacy.htm

Emails from Lab Animal

After registering on the Lab Animal website, you will be automatically opted in to receive:

• Monthly Table of Contents alert from Lab Animal.
• Occasional news from the Lab Animal.

You may opt out of these at the registration stage, or any time thereafter, by following the instructions at the bottom of the alert, or have this information corrected by login and modification of your account.

Purchasing from Lab Animal

During article and subscription sales we always use industry-standard encryption technologies and a secure server for transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site.

Your privacy is important to us

We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. We do not sell or exchange personally identifiable information with any third parties.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes on our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, we recommend that you review this Privacy Statement periodically, as Lab Animal may update it from time to time.

If you would like to ensure that you are not contacted by us as a result of having used our site, please contact us at admin@labanimal.com.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at editors@labanimal.com. We will be sure to address your concerns.

We can be reached via email: editors@labanimal.com.

In order to confidently verify your credit-card purchase, we have to ask you to present your details in a very specific way.

Here are some tips to help you ensure that your details are entered correctly:

1. First and last name: Your name must be entered exactly as it is printed on your card and statement. If this includes a middle initial, this should be entered along with your first name, that is: First Name: Dominic A Last Name: Pettit
2. Address: This must be entered as it appears in your credit-card records.
3. State/Province: Only complete this field if you have entered 'US/Canada' as your country.
4. Telephone number: Non-numeric characters are ignored by the verification system, and consequently it will not matter if you insert hyphens, spaces or leave blank spaces in between the numerals.
5. Credit card number: Non-numeric characters are ignored by the verification system, and consequently it will not matter if you insert hyphens, spaces or leave blank spaces in between the numerals.

If you reached this page directly from the purchasing system, please click 'back' on your browser to return to your order.

Information about secure ordering online

We are committed to ensuring the security and privacy of information supplied by our customers. The site uses a secure server that encrypts all your credit-card information to ensure that no one else can view the details. The security of the connection will be confirmed by the presence of the padlock icon in the lower right hand corner or lower left hand corner of your browser.

Linking to and from labanimal.com

Please contact us at admin@labanimal.com if you would like to link to or from our site, and we will be pleased to advise you about our policies. Please provide full details of your site and how the linking will be used.