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1. The Information We Collect
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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 TradeNBids to be published on the Site through the
publishing tools, including but not limited to Company Directory, Product Catalog,
Trade Leads, 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 TradeNBids or a vendor available through TradeNBids, 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 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 TradeNBids 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 TradeNBids 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.
TradeNBids will share your Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to the
transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed. In addition, TradeNBids
may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness and, in the process
of such determination, TradeNBids 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. TradeNBids does not maintain
electronic or physical copies of your credit card information.
While TradeNBids 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.
TradeNBids 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 your 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 TradeNBids, 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 TradeNBids 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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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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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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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
TradeNBids in writing (at the address set out in the Notice provision of the Terms
of Use Agreement) and specifically request that TradeNBids return and/or destroy all
copies of all or part of your Collected Information in TradeNBids’s possession.
This Privacy Policy was last amended on December 10, 2004.
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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 TradeNBids.
To update or correct such information, please
click here
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TradeNBids welcomes your continuous input regarding our Privacy Policy or our services
provided to you.
You may send us your comments and responses to
support1@ecplaza.net.
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