Corporate|Careers|Partners|Suppliers|Contact PRODUCTSSOLUTIONSSUPPORTRESOURCESHOW TO BUYINVESTORS FR ES 中文 日本語 Log in/Register Home / Cookie and Privacy Policy Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Cookie and Privacy Policy At EXFO, we know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and that is why we are committed to respecting your privacy and helping protect the security of your information. The purpose of this cookie and privacy statement ("Statement”) is to help you better understand how and why we gather, store and process information collected from you. This Statement also explains what cookies are, how and why they are used as well as your options regarding the use of cookies and the information collected. Visiting or using this website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you want to use our products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies as described in this notice. Please read the following carefully to understand our personal information practices. We also invite you to read our formal Terms of Use and Disclaimers. Should you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us. What does this statement apply to This Statement covers the collection and use of personal information by EXFO when a visitor browses www.EXFO.com and investors.EXFO.com ("Site"). This includes all related pages, any subscription-based features or services offered by EXFO via the Site as well as the use of any of the Site’s related features and services. It does not apply to other online or offline EXFO sites, products, services, nor does it apply to any third-party site that may be linked in our site. Why we collect information Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to deliver a smooth, efficient and personalized experience when on our website. This allows us to provide you with the information, services and features that are most likely to meet your needs. To fully benefit from what our website has to offer, you will need to fill a form or create a profile. This is where you will be required to provide us with your contact information as well as other professional information. We automatically track certain information about you, based upon your behavior on our Site. We use this information to conduct internal research on our user demographics, interests and behaviors, and to offer more personalized content. The information we collect from you and about you is used as follows: To ensure that content from our Site is presented as optimally as possible for you, your computer and your web browser To enable the features you are using, provide the services you request or complete a subscription To measure and improve the website’s performance and usability, its contents, services and features as well as to personalize your overall experience To send you information based on your relationship or transactions with us, notify you about changes to our products or services, provide customer support and respond to your inquiries To provide you with information on events, news, products or services we feel may interest you, when you have consented to be contacted for such purposes To fulfil our contractual obligations with you To allow you to participate in the interactive features of our Site, when you choose to do so Cookies used on this website Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are sent back to the website at each subsequent visit or to any another website that recognizes them. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device. You can find more generic information about cookies here (external link). For a video explaining the cookie fundamentals, click here. Cookies perform lots of different jobs, like allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember your preferences and generally improve your experience. Due to their core role of enhancing or enabling usability or site processes, disabling cookies may prevent you from using certain parts of this Site. The categories of cookies used on this Site are listed below. Type Name Purpose Session Cookies Session cookies ASP.NET_SessionId We use a session cookie to recognize you from page to page within the website, to remember you when you are logged-in or to enable services and features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. This cookie lasts for the duration of your visit. It is destroyed when you close the browser or navigate away from the EXFO website. By using our Site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. When these cookies are disabled, various functions of the site will be broken or unavailable. For more information on session cookies and what they are used for, click here. Performance Cookies Google Analytics __utma __utmb __utmc __utmv __utmz Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, i.e., the pages you go to most often, and any error messages you receive. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. The information these cookies collect is aggregated, therefore anonymous, and is only used to understand how the site is being used and identify problem areas to improve user experience. You can find out more about Google’s privacy policy concerning its analytics service at Google privacy policy Google also offers a tool that allows you to opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites and can be found here. Functionality Cookies Persistent cookies EPiServer.CMO.LPO: (http://www.EXFO.com/) is_returning We use persistent cookies to enable our Site to recognize you on subsequent visits, thus speeding up or enhancing your experience, as well as remember your settings and preferences, such as your user name, language, region and other customization options. They may also be used to provide services such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. Such cookies do not track your browsing activity on other websites. By using our Site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. When these cookies are disabled, various functions of the Site will be broken or unavailable. Targeting Cookies Marketo cookies _mkto_trk _mkt_library _mkt_whitepapers This Site uses an automation system provided by Marketo Inc., which uses cookies to recognize you as a unique user when you return to the site, and to track various data related to your website usage in order to provide custom content or services related to your specific interests. The cookies placed by the Marketo server are readable only by Marketo. For more information on Marketo cookies and what they are used for, click here. Other cookie or data collection that may be used on this Site Flash cookies/Local shared objects. Adobe Flash Player is used to deliver a rich media experience. Where we use Macromedia Flash on our Site, a small Flash Cookie may be used. The purpose of using these cookies is to store your flash player preferences and enhance your browsing experience. Flash Cookies are stored on your computer like standard cookies, except that they are stored in a different location. For this reason, it is not always possible to block or manage Flash Cookies directly from your browser. To manage or delete Flash Cookies, please visit Adobe’s website for full information. Please note that some of the interactive tools will cease to work properly when Flash Cookies are disabled. Social buttons. On many of the pages of our Site you will see “social buttons”. These enable users to share or bookmark web pages or access EXFO content on these social media. These buttons include: Twitter, Google+, Facebook “Like”, LinkedIn “Share”, ShareThis and YouTube. You may also find other regional or language-specific social media buttons. By clicking on any of these buttons, the Site will register your action and may use that information. To implement these buttons and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, scripts from domains outside of EXFO must be used. You should be aware that when you are logged-in to the services of these sites (e.g., Google and Facebook), they are likely to be collecting information about your browsing habits, including when on the EXFO Site, even if you do not click on a social button. Read the respective policies of each of these sites to see how they use your information and how to opt-out or delete such information. External web services. A number of external web services are used on the EXFO Site to display specific content within our web pages. For example, to display images we may use Flickr, to display slideshows we may use SlideShare, to show videos we may use YouTube. This is not the complete list of the services we use, or might use in the future, but these are the most common. Like for social buttons, we cannot prevent these sites or external domains from collecting information on your use of embedded content. If you are not logged-in to these external services, then they will not know who you are, but will likely gather anonymous usage information (e.g., number of views, plays, loads). Cookies used in the investors section (investors.EXFO.com) Type Name Purpose Session cookie EXFO_SESSION The primary purpose of the session cookie is to assign a unique ID to a user in order to follow the path of the user throughout a website. This unique ID is saved in the cookie, along with 2 timestamps that are used to determine the last visit date of a user that is used on a “what’s new” page. In addition, the cookie contains a key that prevents an unauthorized individual from altering the contents of the cookie. The session ID stored in the cookie is also used as a look-up key for the “remember me” function that is used for webcasts and mail requests. If a user chooses to use the “remember me” function (by checking a box when entering a webcast), the users’ information will be linked internally to shareholder.com with the session ID. This cookie has a 1 year life span. The session cookie is checked on every page view, and is set if the session cookie is not detected. If the user disables his cookies, the session is reset on every page hit. This does not affect the user’s experience, except that the “remember me” function used for webcasts will not work; the user will have to re-enter all his information at every webcast. When this cookie is disabled, the reports generated through the client extranet “dialogue” regarding site usage will not be able to follow the paths of this user. Identity cookie EXFO_IDENTITY The identity cookie represents a user that has entered information regarding his identity and has opted to use the “remember me” function offered for webcasts and mail document requests. Its existence indicates that the user accepts the “remember me” function. The actual key that links to the personal information is the session ID saved in the session cookie. The primary purpose of this cookie is to increase performance by minimizing database look-ups for any page that wishes to display “Welcome %Firstname% %Lastname%”. Some clients may have this welcome displayed on every page, which represents a significant load on our database servers. Saving this data in a cookie bypasses this load. Data could be stored in the session cookie, but session cookies are not flexible with respect to the lifespan of identity cookies. This cookie lasts for 1 year. Recipient cookie EXFO_RECIPIENT The recipient cookie is used as a “logged in” cookie, which means the user can modify private information, such as alerts sent to a specific email address. This cookie contains a key (separate from the session ID key) that references contact information (such as email address and phone number). The only way to obtain this cookie is by clicking an email confirmation link that is sent for the purpose of authenticating the user. In order to prevent unauthorized messages from being sent through our system (spam), our clients will not be able to send emails to people who registered through the website, but who didn’t authenticate their email address. The cookie cannot be tampered using the same md5 authentication procedure as the other two aforementioned cookies. A “log out” button is provided that can be used to clear this information from the browser. This cookie lasts for 1 year, but the duration can be customized. By using our Site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.When these cookies are disabled, users will be able to edit their contact information and email alerts, but they will have to request the confirmation emails each time they wish to change their information. Briefcase cookie EXFO_BRIEFCASE This cookie enables the briefcase function on the Site. Most documents throughout Webcenter/360 (such as PDFs of SEC filings) can be added to the briefcase. The user then can visit his briefcase at some later date and download all of the documents together as a .ZIP file or individually. This cookie lasts for 1 year, but the duration can be customized. When these cookies are disabled, users are unable to place documents in the briefcase for compression and bulk download, and instead must download items individually. Opt-out cookie EXFO_OPT-OUT Webcenter/360 gives a user the option to opt-out of using cookies to store information. However, the only way of remembering the fact that a user does not want to use cookies is to save that information in a cookie. This is done by clicking on a specific opt-out link. The person has to reset this cookie every time the cookie is cleared from his system. This cookie is simply provided as an option for people that do not want cookies to store their information, but do not have access to (or do not want to) alter their cookie settings. This cookie has no expiration date. The cookie must be deleted to restore the function. The Site will assume that the user has allowed cookies and has attempted to set them as normal. Depending on the security level of his browser, this may result in multiple prompts for the user to accept cookies. Sqpagediv cookie EXFO_SQPAGEDIV EXFO_SQPAGELI This cookie is used to remember what ticker symbol the user has selected in the right hand column of all "Stock Quotes" pages (sqpageDIV cookie) or on the "Stock Listings" page (sqpageli cookie). This cookie expires once the user closes his browser. When these cookies are disabled, users will always see the NASDAQ ticker by default because their preferences will not be remembered during the session. Nomobile cookie EXFO_NOMOBILE This cookie identifies users who are on a mobile device. When that is the case, the cookie redirects the user to the IR mobile page. This cookie expires after 1 day. When these cookies are disabled, users will always be directed to the Investor Relations page on the website, whether they are on a computer or a mobile device. How can your web browser control cookies All major browsers provide security controls for cookies. In general, they allow users to block all cookies, or block specific or third-party cookies. You may also activate the settings on your browser that allow you to refuse cookies. Unless you set your browser to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log-on to our Site. The “help” portion of the toolbar in most browsers will provide information on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to tell the browser to inform you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether. We strongly recommend that you accept cookies, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of our Site’s features. What can you do to control cookies collected on this Site If you disagree with the use of cookies, you have the following options: You can delete cookies after having visited the Site You can browse the Site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” in Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari) You can set your browser’s security controls so that all or certain cookies are blocked You can request that we delete any personal information that we collected—to do so, write us The information we collect about you We may collect, process and use the following information about you: Details of your visits to our Site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, search activities as well as the page, content, software or resources that you access. Information that you provide on our Site, which includes information provided when registering for our Site, subscribing to a service, posting material, reporting a problem, requesting further services or when you enter a contest or promotion. Your IP address, web addresses of the sites you arrive from and go to next and information about your connection, including your device's browser, operating system, platform type and Internet connection speed. We use this information for operational and performance measurement purposes and to regionalize certain contents of the Site. Details of transactions and orders, your history of correspondence with us, quote requests or inquiries or when you contact customer service or technical support. Information you provide in the blog, other online forums or through online surveys. Registered user profile. We keep a log of visitors to the Site, which contains information on our individual registered users. The information we collect comes from three sources. First, it is the information that you provide when you fill a form to access premium content or when you create an EXFO, My EXFO or Supplier profile. Second, the information you provide or update in the “Your Profile” section. Finally, we record details of your visits and of contributions you make to the Site. E-mail tracking. Some e-mails that we send have no tracking. In others, we use tracking so that we can tell how much traffic those e-mails generate to our Site. We use this information to calculate the open and click rates of our e-mails to try to improve them. Sometimes we use personal information to re-e-mail people who did not click the first time or to send additional e-mails at a later date. If you want to be sure that none of your e-mail activity is tracked, then you should “opt-out” of EXFO’s e-mails, which you can do via the form on the Site, via the “Your Preferences” section as well as by using the “Unsubscribe” link in all our e-mails. Surveys and contests. From time to time our Site may request information from users via surveys, contests or for a particular service (e.g., newsletter). Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary, which means that the decision to disclose any personal information is left up to the user. Blog and forum comments. To leave a comment in our public forums, you have to be a logged-in user. If you use such forums on the Site, you should be aware, and expressly agree, that any personally identifiable information you submit can be read, collected or otherwise used by anyone who reads our forums. We are not responsible for third-party usage of publicly viewable personal information on our Site. Information you provide Some of the Site’s services require that you log in or register and provide personal information. Information requested may include your name, title, company name, mailing address, e-mail address, etc. Some registration forms may ask for additional demographic or corporate information, your industry and market segment, unique identifiers or may inquire about your preferences and interests. Some fields may be mandatory to obtain the service requested, while others may be optional. Should you choose not to complete the registration, you may be denied access to certain parts or content of the Site, which means that the Site may not function optimally as a result. Information generated and collected automatically We use web analytics tools to automatically store Site usage information, such as the origin, numbers and frequency of visitors to our Site and how they use its contents and components. This data is only used in the analytics tool aggregate and helps us figure out how to provide an optimal experience to as many users as possible. When a user provides us with information that identifies him, such as when you fill a form on the Site, we may store it in our marketing databases to personalize your relationship with EXFO. We do this to recognize you and to gather data when you visit our Site; we may also do this with cookies (learn more in the section on cookies). Some options are available to help you anonymously visit websites, including the possibility to set your web browser to block all cookies or to initiate an anonymous browsing session (learn more about “web browser control” ). Information protection and disclosure Information about our customers is an integral part of our business. We neither loan nor sell your personal information to anyone. We may provide information about you to carefully screened entities that work on our behalf, such as our sales channel partners, distributors or service partners. Only trusted companies who require the use of said information for business purposes are given access to it. We or they may occasionally contact you by e-mail, mail or telephone to provide you with information about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you are dissatisfied or have questions about the use of your information by one of our partners, contact us. We may be forced to disclose or share your personal information in the following situations: To comply with legal or regulatory obligations and/or proceedings To enforce or apply our Terms of Use or other terms and conditions pertaining to the supply of products, services and/or information and other agreements To protect the rights, property or safety of our employees, customers or others When selling one or more of our businesses or to anyone to whom we may transfer our rights under any customer agreement we have with you You should be aware that the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of the data transmitted to our Site—transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict security procedures and features to try to prevent unauthorized access. About e-mail communications When filling a form, you have the opportunity to opt-in or out of e-mail communications. If you opt-in, we may occasionally send promotional material or notifications related to our products and services to the e-mail address you provided upon registration or in your account. To help make this promotional material more relevant to you, we may cross-reference it with the personal and other Information we collect. These e-mails may contain information on EXFO, including relevant resources, product information, promotions and upcoming events, which will be based on your profile or preferences. You may also receive e-mails from some of our approved partners concerning EXFO’s products and services. If at any time, you no longer want to receive promotional e-mails from us, you can “Unsubscribe” or “Change your preferences” on our Site or use the links available at the bottom of each e-mail. You can also opt-out of being contacted by us at any time by sending us an e-mail. When you are a registered user, there are certain service notification e-mails that you cannot opt-out of, such as renewal notices and change notices applicable to our products, services or policies. We may give you the opportunity to opt-in for additional newsletters or alerts. You will be added to these lists only if you register for them via a form or checkbox on the EXFO Site, or by doing so in an offline paper form. If you no longer want to receive such communications by e-mail, you may opt-out by following the instructions included in each communication or by sending an opt-out request. Reviewing and changing your personally identifiable information You can at any time review and change the information you submitted by visiting “Your Account” in the “Your Profile” section of the Site. You should always promptly update your information when it changes. You can also send us a request. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in our forums, other message areas or the feedback area. Please contact EXFO if you would like your personal information removed from our database. Please note that we will retain some of the information you may have requested us to remove for specific reasons, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use and Disclaimers. Furthermore, some information is never completely removed from our databases because of technical constraints and the fact that we regularly back up our systems. Therefore, not all of your personally identifiable information will ever be completely removed from our databases. About your password You are responsible for keeping passwords that enable you to access certain parts of our Site confidential. Never share your EXFO password with a third party. In doing so, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. You can change your password at any time, and if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change it by visiting “Your Account” in the “Your Profile” section. Conditions of use If you decide to visit the EXFO Site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Cookie and Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and Disclaimers. Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check their policies before you submit any personal data. Any subsequent changes to our privacy policy will be posted on this page. How to contact us for more information We welcome all comments regarding this Statement. If you have questions related to our Cookie and Privacy Policy, or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us. 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