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or contingencies beyond its or their control in procuring, compiling,
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agents or licensors be liable to you or anyone else for any decision
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without limitation, consequential, special, incidental, indirect,
punitive or similar damages), in contract, tort (including negligence),
statute or any other legal theory, even if advised of the possibility
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link to another site or service is not and does not imply any endorsement
by Hitachi Consulting of the linked site or service, even if it
may contain the Hitachi Consulting logo. You may not create on
any website a link to any page of Hitachi Consulting’s website
without Hitachi Consulting’s
prior written consent, and you acknowledge that framing Hitachi
Consulting’s web site and any similar process is prohibited.
You
warrant that any information, material or comments (other than
personal data, discussed below) (collectively, “Information”)
that you may transmit to Hitachi Consulting through its website
does not infringe, misappropriate or violate any intellectual property
rights or applicable law. Such Information will be treated as non-confidential
and non-proprietary. By submitting such Information, you give Hitachi
Consulting an unlimited, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable,
royalty-free license to use, execute, show, modify and transmit
such Information, including any underlying idea, concept or know-how.
Hitachi Consulting reserves the right to use such Information in
any way it chooses.
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or proceeding relating to this site shall be governed by the laws
of the State of Texas without reference to its choice of law rules,
and shall be brought only in the state or federal courts serving
Dallas, Texas, regardless of where in the world you are located
or from where in the world you visited this site.
To the extent any of the
above is not fully enforceable for any reason, the remainder shall
continue to apply.
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Hitachi Consulting, the Hitachi Consulting
logos and Information Velocity are service marks, and Knowledge-Driven
Consulting, Go With the Experienced Leader and Go With an Experienced
Guide are registered service marks, of Hitachi Consulting Corporation.
All other trademarks or service marks referenced in this site are
the property of their respective owners.
Privacy Statement Introduction
Hitachi Consulting has a strong commitment to privacy on the World
Wide Web. We want our website to be useful and informative to you
and to provide a means for you to obtain information about Hitachi
Consulting and the ways in which we can help you. You may thus
have the opportunity to provide personal information through this
site. This statement sets forth Hitachi Consulting's privacy policy
for hitachiconsulting.com and describes the procedures we follow
to respect the privacy of visitors to this site and their information.
Collection of Information
If you are merely visiting our website, you are not required
to provide any personal information and Hitachi Consulting does
not collect any personal information about you. If you would like
to learn more about Hitachi Consulting, you will have the opportunity
to provide information so that we can contact you. We will ask
you for basic contact information such as your name, company affiliation,
job title, physical mailing address, e-mail address and telephone
number.
In the future we anticipate using "cookies" in
some areas of our site. A cookie allows our site to store pieces
of information in your browser and to give your browser an identifier
used only on our site, without identifying you. A cookie tracks
navigational habits on a website and thus would allow us to customize
services to the interests of the user and to determine which areas
of the site are more popular than others.
If you do not want to
receive a cookie from hitachiconsulting.com, most browsers can
notify you when a cookie is offered and permit you to determine
whether to accept it or not. If you are not sure whether your browser
has this capability, you can check with the software manufacturer
or your Internet service provider.
Use of Information
Currently, Hitachi Consulting will use your personal information
only to contact you to provide information about our company and
services. In the future, as we add features to our site, you may
have the opportunity to provide information to register for certain
areas of the site or to participate in various online initiatives.
In each instance, Hitachi Consulting will use your information
only for the purpose for which you provided it. You will always
have the opportunity to opt out of providing information or to
request that we remove your information from our records. If you
so choose, you will still be able to access and use hitachiconsulting.com.
Disclosure of Information
Hitachi Consulting will not sell, distribute or disclose your personal
information, or otherwise share it with a third party. We will
not use cookies to collect or distribute information to third parties
for any purpose. We will not collect or compile personally identifying
information to third parties for unsolicited marketing activities
or for consumer marketing initiatives.
If features are added to
hitachiconsulting.com that involve the potential sharing of information
with third parties to better serve you, we will ask for your express
permission first.
The only other circumstance in which we would disclose your personally
identifiable information would be if we are required to do so by
law through a subpoena, search warrant, court order or other legal
process.
Security
Hitachi Consulting has technological and operational security
functions in place to protect personally identifiable information
from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorized Hitachi
Consulting personnel with a need to know will have access to personally
identifiable information. Such personnel have agreed to maintain
the confidentiality of such information.
Links to Third Party Sites
Our website may link to third party. Hitachi Consulting assumes
no responsibility for the information practices of sites to which
our site provides links. You should review each site's privacy
and security policies to determine such practices and whether you
wish to disclose personally identifiable information on them.
Retention of Information
The personally identifiable information you provide will be kept
as long as the information is required to satisfy the purpose for
which you provided it or until you request that we delete it. Hitachi
Consulting does not assume responsibility for verifying the ongoing
accuracy of the information you provide. If you inform us that
your information has changed, we will make appropriate corrections
to reflect updated information that you provide.
Children
Hitachi Consulting understands the importance of protecting children's
privacy in an online environment. hitachiconsulting.com does not
intentionally target or solicit children 13 and under. It is our
policy not to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone
under the age of 13.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
Hitachi Consulting reserves the right to amend this Privacy Statement
at any time and for any reason. Nothing contained in this Statement
is intended or should be construed to create a contract or agreement
between Hitachi Consulting and any user visiting this site or providing
personally identifiable information in any form.
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