PRIVACY STATEMENT
Basic Policy
Please see http://www.boeing.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy.page . The Boeing Company is sensitive to the issue of confidentiality in on-line dealings and is committed to protecting your privacy. In some cases, The Boeing Company requests personally identifiable information from you and/or acquires it from Boeing internal systems in order to satisfy the underlying transaction or purpose of your accessing the Site. Examples of personally identifiable information include names, e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, and the like. If identifiable personal information is collected from you, The Boeing Company will abide by the following policy. For matters not covered here, we will treat the information in a manner The Boeing Company deems appropriate given the nature and extent of the information.
General Data Collected
When you visit our site, and you have not registered our web server automatically recognizes only your domain name, but not your e-mail address. We collect the domain name and monitor general site use and traffic patterns to improve our website and the products and services we offer. The Boeing Company uses web server logs to collect data for metric purposes. Examples of the types of data collected on the logs are IP addresses, referral pages, date and time of Site access and Site visited. Additionally, The Boeing Company may collect registration data in order to monitor compliance with the terms of use governing the Site.
Cookies
The Boeing Company is committed to continually improving our visitor's experience with our website. Cookies are currently the only way to effectively identify a unique anonymous visitor and understand how they navigate our website. An anonymous visitor to our site remains anonymous in all cases. The Boeing Company may use cookies for tracking purposes and to make your use of any personal page areas of the Site easier. A cookie is a data file written to your hard drive by the server controlling the Site. If you want to be warned before a cookie is placed on your hard drive, you may set your browser to provide a warning before it accepts a cookie. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. If you choose to prevent the use of a cookie, some functionality of your use of the Site may be impaired.
Licensing Requests
When you place a Licensing Request with The Boeing Company, we collect information regarding your proposed use of licensed materials. We use this information to track usage, review, approve, and fulfill your Licensing Request, to allow download of materials, and to communicate with you about your Licensing Request. This information is posted to your account.
Registration & Your Account
You may be invited to use the service and be provided with a password protected account. Having an account with thehangar.boeing.com provides you access to other areas of the website from the login page, and access to order licensed use of Boeing imagery. When your account is created we collect information such as your name, address, phone number, email address and other pertinent information from internal Boeing sources and from information you provide to us.
Security
At The Boeing Company, protecting your information is a priority. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt your sensitive data. To confirm that SSL is engaged to protect your connection, look at the bottom status bar of your browser window. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser), the SSL is active. Most browsers offer additional security alerts, as well. With regard to overall security, we always use industry standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving data exchanged with our site.
Disclosure of Information
We do not rent, sell, or trade any personally identifiable information about you (e.g., e-mail addresses) to third parties. We may disclose information to third parties assisting us in processing a transaction requested by you (e.g., credit card service providers). In order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, to protect The Boeing Company systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of The Boeing Company business and systems, The Boeing Company may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate under the circumstances.
External Links
For the convenience of our Site visitors, The Boeing Company may provide links to websites that are external to The Boeing Company. These websites are not operated or controlled by The Boeing Company, and The Boeing Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external websites.
Children
The Boeing Company asks children under the age of 13 not to transmit any information to the Site.
International Data Transmission
If you are one of our international guests, we realize that you may want to know whether your personal information will be transferred out of your country of origin. Please be aware that when you register for an account or license imagery, the thehangar.boeing.com web site transfers your personal data to computers in the United States in order to process your request.
Revisions
From time-to-time The Boeing Company may revise this privacy statement at its discretion. The Boeing Company advises you to check back periodically to review the privacy statement because users of the Site will be prospectively bound by the then current version of this privacy statement.