Privacy Statement

Our Commitment To Privacy:

We respect your right to privacy. This policy summarizes what personally identifiable information we may collect, and how we might use this information. This policy also describes other important topics relating to your privacy.

Information Collection:

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on The Mellinger Co. web sites. The Mellinger Co. is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy.

We will only collect personally identifiable information (such as name, title, company name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) that you voluntarily provide through our web site or e-mail correspondence. When you place and order, we will securely collect payment information such as your credit card number. If you use our PayPal payment gateway and want further information, you may follow this link to PayPal's Privacy Policy

Some of our Web pages may contain "cookies," which are data that may be sent to your Web browser and stored on your computer. This allows our server to "recognize" you when you visit our Web site in the future. Most Web browsers can be configured to not accept cookies, or to notify you if a cookie is sent to you.

We will collect general information (such as the type of browser you use, the files you request, and the domain name and country from which you request information) to improve our web site and better meet your needs.

Use of Information:

Before we collect any personally identifiable information, we will provide an explanation for the possible use of your data. The information you supply will be used by us to fulfill your orders for our products and services, respond to your inquiries, supply you with requested information on the products and services. We may also use the information to inform you about new features, products or services if you explicitly instructed us to do so.

We require you to submit a username and password of your choice for your future access to your account information. To safeguard that your user name and password remain confidential, DO NOT share this information with anyone. If you elect to receive our newsletter or special promotions, your contact information will be used for the delivery of these items.

We offer gift certificates by which you can send to other persons so they may purchase our products. Information you provide to us to create a gift certificate is only used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information, and we do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our web sites and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information:

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by logging on to your user profile of the system you are using. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

You can also correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Sharing Of Information:

We may employ third party companies to perform functions on our behalf. These functions may include order fulfillment, package delivery, marketing assistance, postal and e-mail delivery, customer service, data analysis, and credit card processing. The third parties we contract for these purposes have limited access to your personal information and may not use it for other purposes.

We may frame or mask another web site so that the look, feel and interface simulate the experience of browsing a genuine Tradezone.com web page. Extreme care and discretion is exercised when evaluating third party sites. We only brand third party sites if their organization applies stringent security and privacy practices.

It may be necessary, if required by law or if pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations, to release your personally identifiable information.

Our Commitment To Data Security:

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

When our registration/order form asks you to enter sensitive information (such as your credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software currently available in the industry - SSL. Tradezone.com uses one of the most advanced forms of SSL software available: 128-bit encryption by Comodo. To learn more about SSL, follow this link www.comodo.com .

Employees of the Mellinger Co. are required to read and abide by the policies set forth in this notice. Access to all of our users' information is restricted and securely protected.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:

Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or place orders with us.

Choice/Opt-out:

If you wish to opt-out and stop receiving communications from Tradezone.com, you may notify us through our customer service contact form or call us at 661-259-6739. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter may opt-out by using the "unsubscribe" link found at the bottom of the newsletter.

Notification of Changes:

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it as needed. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage. If you have opted out of receiving communications from Tradezone.com, you will still be able to view news of policy changes at Tradezone.com. Otherwise, you may use our customer service contact form . or call us at 661-259-6739 to check on privacy updates for this site.

Other Important Information:

This web site may contain links to other sites. We do not endorse or otherwise accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites. Additionally, Tradezone.com provides free web sites within its domain and we do not endorse or otherwise accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites.

Furthermore, we do not endorse, accept responsibility or liability for the products, content or privacy policies of companies that post on our Trade Lead bulletin board or Trade Lead Data base. Any information you obtain from those sources or any other sources on this site are done so at your own risk. It is up to you to review the privacy policies and validity of those companies or individuals found on this site before providing them with any personal information or using their products or services.

How To Contact Us:

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 661-259-6739 or us our customer service contact form .

Last Update

The Privacy Policy contained herein became officially effective September 20, 2005