If we indicate in this Statement or elsewhere in the Site that personal information is being collected, maintained, used or disclosed, it may be collected, maintained, used or disclosed by ARI through its employees, agents or duly authorized representatives.

Personal Information
ARI will not collect your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or other personal information unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you do not want this information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and have changed your mind, please see the section entitled "Individual Access" below and contact us at 281.272.8800 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm central time, Monday to Friday.

When you do provide us with personal information, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise: we may store and process that information to administer this Site; we may share that information with third parties that provide support services to us or help us market our products and services; we may use that information to better understand your needs and preferences and how we can improve our products and services; and, we may use that information to tailor our Site to suit your interests or to contact you and respond to your requests for information, products or services.

In some areas of the Site, you may be asked if you would like to receive certain information about our products and services that may be of interest to you. Or, you may choose to register for certain programs, contests, sweepstakes or services. If you choose to receive this information or register for a program, contests, sweepstakes or service, we will use your personal information for these purposes as well. Except as provided in this Statement, ARI will not sell or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties unless such disclosure is requested by law enforcement agencies or is required by law, regulation, court order, subpoena or other legal process.

Children
This Site is not directed at children, and ARI has no intention of collecting any personal information from individuals under eighteen years of age. Where appropriate, ARI will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our Site. If a child has provided us with personally-identifiable information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us at 281.272.8800 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm central time, Monday to Friday to request that this information be deleted from our records. We will use reasonable efforts to delete the child's information from our existing files.

Other Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, we may collect information automatically that is not generally personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to the Site.

However, we also collect and use your Internet protocol (IP) address, which is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your internet service provider or through your company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). When you view a web page, the web server automatically identifies your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online. We may store and use the IP address and other automatically collected information for the purposes of administering our Site and auditing the use of our Site. We do not link this information to your personal information.

This information is aggregated to form anonymous statistical user data, which we may store, use and disclose to ARI or affiliates or third parties for the purposes of administering the Site, to better understand our customers' needs and preferences, to improve our products and services and to provide advertising on the Site.

Information We May Place Automatically On Your Computer's Hard Drive
If you register on the Site, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "Cookie" or similar file and will help us in many ways. For example, it allows us to tailor the Site to better match your interests and preferences and provide you with the requested product or service, and respond to your request for information in your registration form. If Cookies are disabled in your browser you will be unable to access those areas of the Site to which registration is required.

Links to Third Party Websites
This Site may contain links to third party websites or third party websites may have linked to this Site. Since ARI has no control over third party websites, we suggest you review the privacy statements of those third party websites. This Statement will not apply to those websites.

Individual Access
If you have submitted personal information through this Site and would like to correct, amend or have that information deleted from our records, please contact us at 281.272.8800 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm central time, Monday to Friday. We will make appropriate efforts to verify your identity prior to providing you with access to your personal information. We may require you to provide personal information for this purpose, but we will not use that information for any other purpose.

ARI reserves the right to amend this Statement from time to time, so please visit this page periodically.

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