This is the Privacy
Policy governing your use of the BdExport.com
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 BdExport.com,
which by use of this Site you agree to
accept.
1.0 THE INFORMATION WE NEED
FROM YOU:
1.1 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.")
1.2 Publishing Information: If you
submit any information to BdExport.com
to be published on the Site through
the publishing tools, including but
not limited to Company Profile, Product
Catalog, Trade Leads, Profile and any
discussion forum, then you are deemed
to have given consent to the publication
of such information ("Publishing
Information").
1.3 Payment Information: If you establish
a credit account with our providers
or us or if you purchase a product or
service from BdExport.com or a vendor
available through BdExport.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").
1.4 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").
1.5 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".
2.0 HOW WE MAY USE YOUR INFORMATION:
2.1 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.
2.2 Registration Information: We may
use your Registration Information to
provide services that you request or
to contact you regarding additional
services about which BdExport.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.
2.3 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 BdExport.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.
2.4 Payment Information: BdExport.com
will share your Payment Information
with banks or vendors relevant to the
transaction in order to enable transactions
to be completed. In addition, BdExport.com
may use Payment Information to determine
your credit-worthiness and, in the process
of such determination, BdExport.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. BdExport.com does not maintain
electronic or physical copies of your
credit card information. While BdExport.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. BdExport.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.
2.5 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.
3.0 DISCLOSURE OF YOUR 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 BdExport.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 law,
regulation or administrative order of
any court, governmental or regulatory
authority, requires such disclosure.
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 BdExport or others.
4.0 RELASHIONSHIP WITH OTHER
PARTIES:
We have established relationships with
other parties to offer you the benefit
of other products and services that
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.
5.0 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 that 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.
6.0 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.
7.0 SECURITY:
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 login
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.
8.0 CHANGES:
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 BdExport.com
in writing (at the address set out in
the Notice provision of the Terms of
Use Agreement) and specifically request
that BdExport.com return and/or destroy
all copies of all or part of your Collected
Information in BdExport.com's possession.
This Privacy Policy was last amended
on April 18, 2006.