Privacy Policy
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The Information We Collect
Registration Information: At the time you register to
become a Registered User of the Site, you will be asked to complete 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.")
Publishing Information: If you submit any
information to XYZed.com to be published on the Site through the publishing
tools, including but not limited to Company Profile, Product Catalog, Trade
Leads, Trust Pass Profile and any discussion forum, then you are deemed to have
given consent to the publication of such information ("Publishing
Information").
Payment Information: If you establish a
credit account with us or our providers or if you purchase a product or service
from XYZed.com or a vendor available through XYZed.com, 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, unique visitors and so forth. ("Statistical
Information").
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".
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 XYZed.com 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.
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 XYZed.com 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.
Payment Information: XYZed.com will share
your Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to the transaction in
order to enable transactions to be completed. In addition, XYZed.com may use
Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness and, in the process of
such determination, XYZed.com 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. XYZed.com does not maintain electronic or physical copies of
your credit card information. While XYZed.com 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. XYZed.com 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 XYZed.com, 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.
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
XYZed 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.
Cookies
We use "cookies" to store
specific information about you and track your visits to our Site. It is not
uncommon for websites 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.
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.
Minors
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.
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 XYZed.com in
writing (at the address set out in the Notice provision of the Terms of Use Agreement)
and specifically request that XYZed.com return and/or destroy all copies of all
or part of your Collected Information in XYZed.com possession. This Privacy
Policy was last amended on April 10, 2003.
Correcting Your Information
You can access, view and edit your Registration
Information, Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any) through
your Account with XYZed.com. To update or correct such information, please log
in and make the appropriate changes.
Your feedback
XYZed.com welcomes your continuous input regarding
our Privacy Policy or our services provided to you. You may send us your
comments and responses to mail@xyzed.com
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