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(Updated on December 24, 2007)
This is the Privacy Policy governing your
use of the ETTimes.net Site. By using this Site, you
consent to our Privacy Policy set out below. All terms not
defined in this document have the meanings ascribed to them
in the Terms of Use Agreement between you and ETTimes.net
which by use of this Site you agree to accept.
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 ETTimes.net 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").
Payment
Information:
If you establish a
credit account with us or our providers or if you purchase a
product or service from ETTimes.net or a vendor
available through ETTimes.net, 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 ETTimes.net 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 ETTimes.net 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:
ETTimes.net will share your Payment Information with
banks or vendors relevant to the transaction in order to
enable transactions to be completed. In addition,
ETTimes.net may use Payment Information to determine
your credit-worthiness and, in the process of such
determination, ETTimes.net 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. ETTimes.net does not maintain
electronic or physical copies of your credit card
information. While ETTimes.net 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. ETTimes.net 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 ETTimes.net,
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
ETTimes 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
ETTimes.net in writing (at the address set out in the
Notice provision of the Terms of Use Agreement) and
specifically request that ETTimes.net return and/or
destroy all copies of all or part of your Collected
Information in ETTimes.net 's possession. This
Privacy Policy was last amended on December 24, 2007.
Correcting Your Information
You can access, view and edit your
Registration Information, Publishing Information and Payment
Information (if any) through your Account with
ETTimes.net. To update or correct such information,
please click here.
Your feedback
ETTimes.net
welcomes your continuous input regarding our Privacy Policy
or our services provided to you. You may send us your
comments and responses to service@ettimes.net
You can opt out of email communications
from ETTimes.net at any time from within each email
or by contacting our service team by email at
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or by phone at (+886)2-22557337
You can also contact us by post at the
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