Privacy Policy
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| 1. How we collect information |
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Registration Information. At the time you register
to become a Registered User of the Site, you will be asked to
fill out a registration form which requires you provide information
such as your name, address, phone/fax number, email address
and other personal information as well as information about
your business ("Registration Information"). |
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Publishing Information. If you submit any information
to our site to be published on the Site through the publishing
tools, including but not limited to Company Profile, Product
Catalog, Trade Leads and any discussion forum, then you are
deemed to have given consent to the publication of such information
("Publishing Information"). |
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Payment Information. If you establish a credit
account with us or our providers or if you purchase a product
or service from our website or a vendor available through our
website , we may collect additional information, including billing
information, credit card numbers and expiration dates and tracking
information from cheques or money orders ("Payment Information").
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Statistical Information. In addition, we gather
aggregate statistical information about our Site and Users,
such as IP addresses, browser software, operating system, pages
viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors, etc. ("Statistical
Information"). |
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Registration Information, Publishing Information,
Payment Information, Statistical Information and any information
we may collect from you through the use of cookies (see Section
5 below) or any other means shall collectively be referred to
as "Collected Information". |
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2. How We May Use Information |
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General. We use your Collected Information to
improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically
analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings
and to customize our Site's content, layout and service specifically
for you. We may use your Collected Information to service your
Account with us, including but not limited to investigating
problems, resolving disputes and enforcing agreements with us.
We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any personally-identifying
information of our Users. We may share certain aggregate information
based on analysis of Collected Information with our partners,
customers, advertisers or potential Users. We may use your Collected
Information to execute marketing campaigns, promotions or advertising
messages on behalf of third parties; however, in these circumstances,
your Collected Information will not be disclosed to such third
parties unless you respond to the marketing, promotion or advertising
message. |
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Registration Information. We may use your Registration
Information to provide services that you request or to contact
you regarding additional services about which our company determines
that you might be interested. Specifically, we may use your
email address, mailing address, phone number or fax number to
contact you regarding notices, surveys, product alerts, new
service or product offerings and communications relevant to
your use of our Site. We may generate reports and analysis based
on the Registration Information for internal analysis, monitoring
and marketing decisions. |
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Publishing Information. All of your Publishing
Information will be publicly available on the Site and therefore
accessible by any internet user. Any Publishing Information
that you disclose to our website becomes public information
and you relinquish any proprietary rights (including but not
limited to the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in
such information. You should exercise caution when deciding
to include personal or proprietary information in the Publishing
Information that you submit to us. |
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Payment Information. We will share your Payment
Information with banks or vendors relevant to the transaction
in order to enable transactions to be completed. In addition,
We may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness
and, in the process of such determination, We may make such
Payment Information available to banks or credit agencies. Any
credit card information that you provide through the Site is
directly submitted to a payment server of the credit card processing
bank. We does not maintain electronic or physical copies of
your credit card information. While our Website has in place
up-to-date technology and internal procedures to guard your
Payment Information against intruders, there is no guarantee
that such technology or procedure can eliminate all of the risks
of theft, loss or mis-use. We shall not be liable to you or
any other person for any damages that might result from unauthorized
use, publication, disclosure or any other mis-use of Payment
Information, including credit card information. |
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Statistical Information. We use Statistical Information
to help diagnose problems with and maintain our computer servers,
to manage our Site, and to enhance our Site and services based
on the usage pattern data we receive. We may generate reports
and analysis based on the Statistical Information for internal
analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions. We may provide
Statistical Information to third parties, but when we do so,
we do not provide personally-identifying information without
your permission. |
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3. Disclosure of Information |
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We reserve the right to disclose your Collected
Information to relevant authorities where we have reason to
believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact
or bring legal action against someone who may be infringing
or threatening to infringe, or who may otherwise be causing
injury to or interference with, the title, rights, interests
or property of our website, our Users, customers, partners,
other web site users or anyone else who could be harmed by such
activities. |
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We also reserve the right to disclose Collected
Information in response to a subpoena or other judicial order
or when we reasonably believe that such disclosure is required
by law, regulation or administrative order of any court, governmental
or regulatory authority. |
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If we have reason to believe that a User is in
breach of the Terms of User Agreement or any other agreement
with us, then we reserve the right to make public or otherwise
disclose such User's Collected Information in order to pursue
our claim or prevent further injury to us or others. |
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4. Co-Branded Relationships |
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We have established relationships with other parties to offer you
the benefit of other products and services which we ourselves do not
offer. We offer you access to these other parties either through the
use of hyperlinks to their sites from our Site, or through offering
"co-branded" sites in which both ourselves and these other
parties share the same uniform resource locator, domain name or pages
within a domain name on the Internet. In some cases you may be required
to submit information for purposes of registering or applying for
products or services provided by such third parties or co-branded
partners. The privacy policy of such other parties may differ from
ours, and we may not have any control over the information that you
submit to such third parties or co-branded sites. We therefore encourage
you to read that policy before responding to any offers, products
or services provided by such other parties. |
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5. Cookies |
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We use "cookies" to store specific information
about you and track your visits to our Site. It is not uncommon
for web sites to use cookies to enhance identification of their
users. A "cookie" is a small amount of data that is
sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive.
A cookie can be sent to your computer's hard drive only if you
access our Site using the computer. If you do not de-activate
or erase the cookie, each time you use the same computer to
access our Site, our web servers will be notified of your visit
to our Site and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit
and the pattern of your usage. Generally, we use cookies to
identify you and enable us to access your Registration Information,
Publishing Information or Payment Information so you do not
have to re-enter it; gather statistical information about usage
by Users; research visiting patters and help target advertisements
based on User interests; assist our partners to track User visits
to the Site and process orders; and track progress and participation
in promotions. |
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You can determine if and how a cookie will be
accepted by configuring your browser's which is installed in
the computer you are using to access the Site. If you desire,
you can change those configurations in your browser. By setting
your preferences in the browser, you can accept all cookies,
you can be notified when a cookie is sent, or you can reject
all cookies. If you reject all cookies by choosing the cookie-disabling
function in your browser, you may be required to re-enter your
information on our Site more often and certain features of our
Site may be unavailable. |
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6. Minors |
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The Site and its contents are not intended to be targeted to minors
under applicable law and we do not intend to sell any of our products
or services to minors. However, we have no way of distinguishing the
age of individuals who access our Site and so we carry out the same
Privacy Policy for individuals of all ages. If a minor has provided
us with personal information without parental or guardian consent,
the parent or guardian should contact us to remove the information.
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7. Security Measures |
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We employ commercially reasonable security methods
to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure
correct use of information. |
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As a Registered User, your Registration Information,
Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any) can
be viewed and edited through your Account which is protected
by Password. We recommend that you do not divulge your Password
to anyone. Our personnel will never ask you for your Password
in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. If
you share a computer with others, you should not choose to save
your log-in information (e.g., User ID and Password) on the
computer. Remember to sign out of your Account and close your
browser window when you have finished your session. |
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No data transmission over the Internet or any
wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secured.
As a result, while we try to protect your information, no web
site or company, including ourselves, can absolutely ensure
or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to
us and you do so at your own risk. |
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8. Changes to Privacy Policy |
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Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be communicated through
our posting an amended and restated Privacy Policy on our Site. Our
posting the amended and restated Privacy Policy will make such new
Privacy Policy immediately effective. You agree that all Collected
Information (whether or not collected prior to or after the new policy
became effective) will be governed by the newest Privacy Policy then
in effect. If you do not agree to the new changes in our Privacy Policy,
you should contact us in writing (at the address set out in the Notice
provision of the Terms of Use Agreement) and specifically request
that we return and/or destroy all copies of all or part of your Collected
Information in our possession. |
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9. Correcting Your Information |
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You can access, view and edit your Registration Information, Publishing
Information and Payment Information (if any) through your Account
with us. To update or correct such information. |
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