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This
is the Privacy Policy governing your use our Site. By using this
Site, you consent to our Privacy Policy set out below.
The Information
We Collect
- 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”).
- Payment Information.
If you establish a credit account with us or our providers or if you purchase
a product or service from us or a vendor available through us, we may collect
additional information, including billing information, credit card numbers
and expiration dates and tracking information from cheques or money orders
(“Payment Information”).
- 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”).
- Registration
Information, Publishing Information, Payment Information, Statistical Information
and any information we may collect from you through the use of cookiesor any
other means shall collectively be referred to as “Collected Information”.
How We May
Use Information
- 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.
- Registration
Information. We may use your Registration Information to provide services
that you request or to contact you regarding additional services about which
us 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.
- Payment Information.
us will share your Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to the
transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed. In addition,
us may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness and, in
the process of such determination, us 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. us does not maintain electronic or physical copies of your
credit card information. While us 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. us 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.
- 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.
Disclosure
of Information
- 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 us, our Users, customers, partners,
other web site users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
- 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.
- I f 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.
Co-Branded
Relationships
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.
Security Measures
- We employ commercially
reasonable security methods to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data
accuracy and ensure correct use of information.
- 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.
- 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.
Changes
to Privacy Policy
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 us return and/or destroy all copies
of all or part of your Collected Information in us’s possession.
Correcting
Your Information
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, please email us.
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