Transim Technology Corporation supplies an internet-based marketing and design service called The WebSIM Design Center to manufacturers of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor devices (our "Manufacturing Clients"). Transim uses The WebSIM Design Center to create internet-based design centers where a Manufacturing Client's customers can select, try and evaluate a manufacturer's virtual product online.

This Privacy Statement explains Transim's information collection and use practices when you visit our Web site, and when you use The WebSIM Design Center on either our site or from a link on a Manufacturing Client's Web site. We encourage you to read this policy so you understand how your information will be used. Please contact us at info@transim.com if you have any questions about this policy.

Transim reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time, but will alert you to changes in the future by indicating on the Privacy Statement the date it was last updated, and by indicating changes in the Changes to our Privacy Statement section below.

Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It

"Personal information" includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address. At Transim, we may collect and use personal information as described below:

Registration Information: In general, you can visit Transim on the Web without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. However, when you register to use Transim's testing and verification services, Transim requires you to provide certain personal information such as your name and contact information. Transim collects this information whenever you register to use our services, whether you access these services from Transim's site or from one of our Manufacturing Client's Web sites.

We may use personal information collected when you register to contact you about your activity on our site, or to contact you about our site and services. If you would like to opt out of being contacted by Transim, you can email us at info@transim.com, and we will remove you from our mailing list.

Information About Your Use of Our Services: Once you have registered to use Transim's services, Transim may collect information about your use of our verification and testing tools, such as which Manufacturing Client's circuits you simulated, and which configurations or parameters you chose to simulate. This information is maintained in the Transim database for internal purposes such as studying use trends and improving our site.

Surveys and Contests: Occasionally, Transim may offer our members and site visitors an opportunity to participate in a survey or contest. Information collected by Transim when you participate in a survey or contest may include your full name, e- mail address, and street address. This information will be used by Transim for purposes described in the survey. It will be used for future unrelated communications from Transim and/or its Manufacturing Clients only if you choose to "opt-in" for such contact.

Resumes: If you are interested in applying for a job with Transim, you may submit your resume online. Resumes you submit for job applications will be used only for application purposes and to send you information about our company.

Customer Service: If you send questions to our customer service department, we will use the information you send us to respond to your question. We also may save your information to help us track user concerns, and to provide you with updates on service issues.

When We Disclose the Personal Information We Collect

Except as described in this statement, we do not sell or disclose information that identifies you personally or makes it possible for other parties to contact you directly without your consent. We may sell, disclose, or otherwise dispose of personal information we collect in the following circumstances:

Our Manufacturing Clients: When you test or verify a Manufacturing Client's device using The WebSIM Design Center, Transim will share your personal information and information about your testing with that Manufacturing Client. We do not control what Manufacturing Clients do with this information, so if you are concerned, you should ascertain a Manufacturing Client's policy for using this information before you test its product using The WebSIM Design Center.

Legal Requirement: We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform with the law, respond to claims or comply with legal process served on Transim; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Web site, our employees, guests or the public.

Company Sale: As the owner of the information collected on our Web site, we may disclose or sell such information as an asset of the company in conjunction with the sale of our company or a portion of our assets to a third party.

Click Stream Data

At Transim, we monitor and collect "click stream" data about the traffic on our site. Click stream data may include the domain from which you visit us, the web browser software you are using, your operating system, or the referring web site. We analyze this data for trends and statistics in order to improve our site and services as well as those of our Manufacturing Clients, and to administer our site. Although this click stream information can be linked to your personal information, if we share click stream information with companies other than our Manufacturing Clients, we will do so only in a form that is not traceable to you or to any particular user.

Cookies

There are various technologies, including one called "cookies," which can be used to provide you tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is a string of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may be stored on your system. Some Transim pages use cookies or other technologies so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to accept or decline the cookie. However, if you refuse to accept a Transim cookie, you will not be able to verify or test products on our site. If you delete the cookie after testing a product, you will need to re-register the next time you want to test a product on our site.

Links to and from Other Web Sites

Transim's Web site contains links to other sites. In addition, it is possible to access Transim's services via the sites of our Manufacturing Clients. Please be aware that Transim's privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site and that Transim is not responsible for the information practices of other companies, which may be different than Transim's.

Security

At Transim we want our users to feel confident that their personally identifiable information is secure, so we use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain personal information to protect it from loss, misuse, alternation or destruction by any unauthorized party. The systems on which your information is stored are protected by multiple, industry-standard firewalls and filters.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

Our Privacy Statement may change in the future. You may check back to this page at any time to see if we have made changes. Changes will be noted in this section.

March, 2002: The term "WebSIM" was replaced by the term "The WebSIM Design Center".

Changing and Deleting Your Information

If you at any time want to change your personal information or have it deleted from our non-archival systems please call Transim at 1-503-450-1355 or e-mail us at webmaster@transim.com.