Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy, and hence the privacy of the information you provide. By using this Site, you agree to our Privacy Policy given below. All terms not defined in this document have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use Agreement between you and us, which also, by using this Site, you agree to accept.

(a)	Registration Information: At the time of registration, you will be asked to fill out a form requesting information such as your name, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, some personal information and information about your business.
(b)	Publishing Information: Any information such as Company Profile, Product Catalogue, Trade Leads, Discussion Forum etc. submitted to us for displaying on our Site, will be deemed to have your consent for publication.
(c)	Payment Information: If you establish a credit account with us or our providers or if you purchase a product or service from us or a vendor available through us, we may collect additional information, including billing information, credit card numbers and expiration dates, tracking information for cheques / money orders.
(d)	Statistical Information: In addition, we may gather aggregate statistical information about our Site and its Users, such as IP addresses, browser software, operating system, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors, etc.
(e)	Collected Information: This includes Publishing Information, Payment Information, Statistical Information and any other information we may collect from you either through the use of Cookies (see ___ below) or any other means.

2. Information Used

(a)	General:
(i)	We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any personally-identifying information of our Users.
(ii)	We use your Collected Information to:
	• improve our marketing and promotional efforts
	• statistically analyze site usage
	• improve our content and product offerings
	• customize our Site's content, layout and service specifically for you
	• service your Account with us
	• investigating problems
	• resolving disputes
	• enforcing agreements
(iii)	We may share certain aggregate information based on analysis of Collected Information with our partners, customers, advertisers or potential Users.
(iv)	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 yourself.

(b) Registration Information:

(i)	We may use your Registration Information to provide services that you request, or to contact you regarding additional services which we think you might be interested in.
(iii)	We may generate reports and analysis based on your Registration Information, for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions.

(c) Publishing Information:

(i)	All your Publishing Information will be publicly available on our Site, and therefore accessible by any internet user.
(ii)	Any Publishing Information that you disclose to us, becomes public information and you relinquish any proprietary rights (including rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in such information.
(iii)	You should exercise caution when deciding to include personal or proprietary information in the Publishing Information that you submit to us.

(d) Payment Information:

(i)	We will share your Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to the transaction, in order to enable transactions to be completed.
(ii)	We may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness. And in the process of such determination, we may make such Payment Information available to banks or credit agencies.
(iii)	Any credit card information that you provide through the Site is directly submitted to a payment server of the credit card processing bank.
(iv)	We do not maintain electronic or physical copies of your credit card information.
(v)	While we have 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 risks of theft, loss or mis-use.
(vi)	We 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.

(e) Statistical Information:

(i)	We use Statistical Information to:
	• help diagnose problems and maintain our computer servers
	• manage our Site
	• enhance our Site and services based on the usage pattern data we receive
(ii)	We may generate reports and analysis based on the Statistical Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions.
(iii)	We may provide Statistical Information to third parties. But when we do so, we do not provide personally-identifying information without your permission.

3. Information Disclosed

(i)	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
	• bring legal action
	against someone who may be:
	• infringing or threatening to infringe
	• causing injury to or interference
	with:
	• the title
	• rights
	• interests
	• property
	of:
	• ours
	• our Users
	• customers
	• partners
	• other web site users
	• anyone else
	who could be harmed by such activities.
(ii)	We also reserve the right to disclose Collected Information:
	• in response to a subpoena or other judicial order
	• when we reasonably believe that such disclosure is required by law, regulation or administrative order of any court, governmental or regulatory authority.
	• in order to pursue our claim or prevent further injury to us or others, if we have reason to believe that a User is in breach of the Terms of User Agreement.

4. Co-Branding

(i)	We have established relationships with other parties to offer you the benefit of other products and services, which we ourselves do not offer.
(ii)	We offer you access to these other parties either through the use of hyperlinks to their sites from our Site, or through ‘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.
(iii)	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. Cookies

	A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. It 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.
(i)	We use cookies to:
	• enhance your identification
	• store specific information about you
	• track your visits to our Site
	• access your Registration Information, Publishing Information & Payment Information, so you do not have to re-enter it every time
	• gather statistical information about usage by Users
	• research visiting patterns
	• help target advertisements based on User interests
	• assist our partners to track User visits to the Site
	• process orders
	• track progress and participation in promotions
(ii)	You can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted, by configuring the browser you are using to access the Site. If you wish, you can even change these configurations. By adjusting your preferences in the browser, you can: accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is sent, or 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. 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 determining the age of individuals who access our Site, 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. Security Measures

(i)	We employ commercially reasonable security methods to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure correct use of information.
(ii)	Your account information and profile are password-protected. 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. As a Registered User, your Registration Information, Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any) can be viewed and edited through your Account.
(iii)	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.
(iv)	No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. 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. You do so at your own risk.

8. Changes in 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 us in writing (at the address set out in the Notice provision of the Terms of Use Agreement) and specifically request that we return and/or destroy all copies of all or part of your Collected Information in our possession.

9. Correcting Your Information

	You can access, view and edit your Registration Information, Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any) in your Account with us. To update or correct any of this information, login.

10. Your feedback

	We welcome your inputs regarding our products, services or website.