Soemtron privacy statements and cookie policy
www.soemtron.org and their group websites

www.soemtron.org and their group websites [4] cannot control and do not necessarily agree with the content of externally linked websites.  This website is not associated with and does not support any political party, religious or activist group, country or persons.  We would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance and support of www.brickfieldspark.org in the provision of web hosting and email services.

The aim of this website is to collect, collate and disseminate any relevant information about the Soemtron 220, 221, 222 and 224 series of electronic calculators manufactured by V.E.B. [1] Büromaschinenwerk [2] Sömmerda, and Digital Equipment Corporation's [3] PDP-7 and PDP-7A computers, all produced during the 1960's and 1970's.  Further information about these increasingly rare machines, comment on or corrections to our websites are invited and welcomed, please use this form to contact us.

All information on www.soemtron.org and their group websites whether dimensional, electrical, mechanical or otherwise is provided in good faith and without warranty, for reference purposes only.  Some of this information is freely available in the public domain.  www.soemtron.org and their group websites reserve the right to amend, correct, remove, add or modify any of the information on this web site without prior notice, in the light of new and/or current laws, legislation or practice, whether from further information supplied, researched, found, derived or reverse engineered.

We will not accept responsibility for any damage, injury (personal, property or otherwise), death, poisoning or other consequential loss from use of the data contained within www.soemtron.org and their group websites, whether derived or originated by ourselves or from other sources.

Copyright of all photographs, images, maps, drawings, diagrams, circuits and other materials on www.soemtron.org or group websites are held by www.soemtron.org and respective copyright owners, and where possible we have obtained permission from the owner to use such material.  Such copyright remains with the originating authority and reproduction is prohibited without prior written confirmation of such use by that appropriate copyright owner.  We will remove, add an acknowledgement to, or suitably modify any copyrighted information if we are notified by the copyright owner.

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 -
www.soemtron.org and their group websites do not engage in any direct marketing in any form.  Any sales / marketing / get rich / pharmacy / pornographic or similar spam e-mails purporting to be from us will have been forged and should not be believed or acted on, and in no circumstances should any money be sent or personal details be released.  We do not condone spam e-mailing and take steps to prevent any e-mail addresses on our site (other than those already in the public domain) from being harvested for mass mailing purposes.  Data provided by you to us will not be released to any third party without your prior permission. To notify www.soemtron.org or group websites of your wish not to be contacted by us in the future please email us .

Data Protection -
www.soemtron.org and their group websites will only ask for your contact details.  If you supply or we ask for contact information we will only ask for what we need, and will not collect too much or irrelevant information.  We make sure nobody has access to it who shouldn’t and we will not make your information available for commercial purposes.

Cookies -
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number.  They are stored by your browser and their expiration will be determined by your browsers security settings.  Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user or gather personal data about you.  You should consult the documentation for your browser for help in changing your cookie settings.  Your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, and depending on the browser used you can also specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so that you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie.  Alternatively you can set your browser to not accept any cookies, if you choose not to accept cookies, this will not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our websites but may impact on the functionality of the Soemtron and/or group websites.

There are a number of different browsers and different versions of each browser which all act in different ways. You can visit www.aboutcookies.org which provides information on how to delete and control cookies across a wide variety of browsers, including stopping cookies being stored, enabling session cookies and deleting cookies if they have already been stored. You will also find information for managing cookies stored on your computer as well as more general information about cookies.

www.soemtron.org and their group websites only use session cookies to help us determine the number of visitors to our site, we do not collect email addresses, look at other cookies or harvest any information from your computer. We use the following cookies only -

1. __utma- determine unique visitors visiting our websites.
2. __utmb and __utmc - establish and continue a user session with our websites.
3. __utmz- store the type of referral used by the visitor to reach our websites.

We do use Google Analytics code to gather statistical information about the pages visited in our sites.  For more information on how Google Analytics processes this information, visit Google Analytics or Google cookies. Google Analytics sets cookies on our websites to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors and volumes of usage, ensuring that our websites are upto date with current legislation and practices and function as required.

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