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PRIVACY POLICY
(Last revised: February 22, 2007)
This is the Privacy Policy governing your use of the Fuzing.com Site.
By using this Site, you approve and agree to our Privacy Policy set forth below. All terms not defined in this document have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use Agreement between you and Fuzing.com which by use of this Site you agree to accept.
Fuzing.com and Fuzing, Inc. (The legal owner and the operator of this site) treats an individual's privacy very seriously. Fuzing.com and Fuzing, Inc. are considered as one and the same legal person and are mentioned as Fuzing.com (or the Site) throughout this Privacy Policy Statement.
The services that Fuzing.com provides you with may require that we gather, process, use and distribute your member information which you provide by filling out our various forms and formats; for example, your company name, contact information, company profile and homepage and the products you buy and sell, etc. Therefore, Fuzing.com does not guarantee that your information will be protected from exposure to any particular party. In fact the purpose of this e-marketplace is to set up a virtual online trade show that facilitates making you and your company as well-known as possible. If you wish to remove your company’s information from Fuzing.com you may do so at any time by contacting us (see section below on how to Contact Us). If you wish to update your company’s information, you may do so by logging in to your account and making those changes.
Fuzing.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site
www.fuzing.com
. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Peter Beresford by telephone at +1-720-221-4469, or in writing to: Fuzing, Inc., 5551 Sunshine Canyon Dr., Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA. If you do not receive acknowledgement of you inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addresses, you should contact TRUSTe at: http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
1. The Information We Collect
1.1 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”). In the event that you decide to publish a product/service listing, or if you elect to have your own Fuzing site prefix (i.e. youcompany.fuzing.com) then much of your Registration Information will be published on our site and becomes "Publishing Information" (see next section).
1.2 Publishing Information.
If you submit any information to Fuzing.com to be published on the Site through the publishing tools, including but not limited to our Company Directory (Extended Profile), Trade/Product/Service Listings, then you are deemed to have given consent to the publication of such information (“Publishing Information”). Once you have elected to publish this information then much of your Registration Information becomes Publishing Information (notable exceptions: we will never publish your username, password or email address - nor will we ever publish Payment Information [see next section]).
1.3 Payment Information.
If you upgrade to a premium Fuzing service we collect additional information, including billing information, which may include credit card numbers and expiration dates (“Payment Information”). The security of your Payment Information is important to us. When you enter this information we encrypt it using Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL).
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 and unique visitors, etc. (“Statistical Information”).
1.5 Registration Information, Publishing Information, Payment Information, Statistical Information and any information we collect from you through the use of cookies (see Section 6 below) or any other means shall collectively be referred to as “Collected Information”.
1.6 Registration Information, Publishing Information and Payment Information shall collectively be referred to as “Personal Identifying Information” because it may contain information that personally identifies you or your company.
2. How We Use 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 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 share certain aggregate information based on analysis of Collected Information with our partners, customers, advertisers or potential Users.
2.2 Registration Information.
We use your Registration Information to provide services that you request or to contact you regarding additional services about which Fuzing.com determines that you might be interested.
Specifically, we use your email address, mailing address, phone number or fax number to contact you regarding notices, product alerts, and communications relevant to your use of our Site, if you choose to receive these as indicated at the time of registration.
We 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 Fuzing.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.
At Fuzing.com, your payment information may be distributed to our 3rd party payment processor (“Quickbooks”) in order to enable transactions to be completed by Fuzing.com. Any credit card information that you provide through the Fuzing.com Site is directly submitted to a payment server of the credit card processing bank. “Quickbooks” will not use the payment information collected for any reasons other than to perform and validate the transaction.
While “Quickbooks” 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.
Fuzing.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 your Site and services based on the usage pattern data we receive.
We generate reports and analysis based on the Statistical Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions.
We provide Statistical Information to third parties, but when we do so, we do not provide them any Personal Identifying Information.
3. Disclosure of Information
3.1 We reserve the right to disclose your Personal Identifying 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 Fuzing.com, our Users, customers, partners, other web site users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
3.2 We also reserve the right to disclose Personal Identifying 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.
3.3 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 Personal Identifying Information in order to pursue our claim or prevent further injury to Fuzing.com or others.
3.4 We will never share, sell, rent or trade Personal Identifying Information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
4. Exposing Personal Identifying Information
Members who sign up for Fuzing service may promote themselves by listing a profile along with product/service listings that are then made visible to other members and the rest of the internet community. At this point the promoting member exposes Personal Identifying Information for public viewing (The information exposed EXCLUDES their email address, their user name, their password or any of their Billing Information). The promoting member has full control over the information that is being published and may change it at any time.
5. Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google’s AdSense program and Yahoo Search Marketing, our advertising partners.
6. Cookies
We use “cookies” to store specific information about you and track your visits to our Site. We also use the information that we store in cookies to link to your Personal Identifying Information. 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 have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers, tracking utilities) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Fuzing.com at www.fuzing.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties.
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 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.
7. 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.
8. Security Measures
8.1 We employ commercially reasonable security methods to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure correct use of information.
8.2 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.
8.3 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.
9. Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home-page.
This Privacy Policy was last amended on February 22, 2007.
10. Correcting Your Information
You can access, view and edit your Registration Information, Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any) through your Account with Fuzing.com.
To update or correct such information, please log into your account and make the changes.
If you wish to unsubscribe to our email communications and/or de-list your company profile please advise us of this by communicating with us at:
http://www.fuzing.com/contact.htm
11. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
Fuzing, Inc.
5551 Sunshine Canyon Drive
Boulder, Colorado 80302
USA
Tel: +1 720-221-4469
Fax: +1 720-406-7546
Or you may contact us via our online contact form at:
http://www.fuzing.com/contact.htm
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