Privacy Policy

1. How we use and collect your information

We will not sell or rent your personal contact information to other companies. We will not disclose your personal contact information to other companies, except in the limited manner and for the limited purposes described below. This web site has several forms and additional collection methods that may require you to provide contact and other information. We use contact information to send promotional material about our company and products, and, in some cases, on behalf of related third-party products and services. If you have purchased our software or requested information, we may use this information to notify you of new products, updates, or other information related to your purchases. You may choose not to receive this additional information. (See "How to remove or update your information," below.)

Design Simulation Technologies, Inc. (DST) uses current and past user information internally within DST and with its partners, service providers, and authorized distributors in order to provide users with support, service, promotional and/or other product information. DST may release current or past user information to third parties for limited purposes in the event DST believes that usage is (i) in violation of the terms and conditions of use of the DST web site; (ii) used to commit unlawful acts; and/or (iii) is required to be disclosed to comply with applicable laws or regulations, or with a court or administrative order. DST may also disclose aggregate information to third parties.

The DST On-line Store uses an order form to collect contact and other information. The contact information is used to ship your order, to send you promotional material about our company, to allow product delivered electronically to be accessed or, if necessary, to get in touch with you.

Important Note: The DST web site contains links to other sites such as universities and other businesses. If you visit one of those sites, please note that we do not control their privacy practices. Therefore, we urge you to learn about their privacy practices before leaving your contact information with them.

IP addresses and logging. We use your IP address to administer our web site and, occasionally, to help diagnose problems with our server. We may use data collected in web server log files, JavaScript code, and cookies to analyze visitors' behavior to better understand their needs. DST uses a third-party web traffic analysis company to log aggregate information coming through our site on our behalf. DST controls how that data may and may not be used. We do not link this data to personally identifiable information, the data is used to analyze web site traffic and navigation trends such as, but not limited to: your referring URL, the Internet browser being used, the type of operating system used, etc. When you visit the DST web site, one or more cookies may be placed on (or read from) your machine if your browser is set to accept cookies. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser. These cookies do not store any personal information on your hard drive; they consist of a simple code that is used to access or maintain current session data, gather broad demographic information, and to help analyze web site traffic. DST may use such non-personal information for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, market research, and improving the content of our web site.

Although Web browsers typically allow cookies by default, most browsers will let you modify settings so that you can decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of this web site or other web sites you visit.

2. Use of Credit Card in our on-line store

Your credit card number is sent in encrypted form to our credit card processor.

This means humans can not read it. It also means that if someone is intercepting your internet traffic the card number is scrambled. No one can read it except our credit card processing company.

We use secure servers (SSL) and extra strong encryption. On our site when you see the URL change from "http://" to "https:// " all data transmission is encrypted so that other people snooping around the net can not read the data.

We do not retain your credit card information at any place on our site. It is collected at the time you check out of our store and transmitted in encrypted format to our credit card processor via the method described above.

3. How we protect your information

DST has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the contact and other information under our control. If you would prefer to give your information by telephone, you may call 1-734-446-6935.

4. How to remove or update your information

DST sends different types of email and postal mail, including electronic/printed newsletters, and event announcements. You may choose to not receive them.

To Correct/Update/Remove your contact information: Please contact us via email at

Changes to the Privacy Policy

DST may make improvements or changes in the information, services, products, and other materials on the DST web site, at any time without notice. DST may modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this site, please contact

The Privacy Notice posted on this site was updated on or about August 27, 2009.