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PRIVACY POLICY
This is the Privacy Policy governing
your use of the KnittingWeb 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 KnittingWeb which by use of this Site you agree to
accept.
1. Collected Information
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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.
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Publishing Information. If you submit any information to KnittingWeb
to be published on the Site through the publishing tools, including
but not limited to Company Profile, Product Catalog, Trade Leads,
TrustPass Profile and any discussion forum, then you are deemed
to have given consent to the publication of such information.
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Payment Information. If you establish a credit account with
us or our providers or if you purchase a product or service from
KnittingWeb or a vendor available through KnittingWeb, we may
collect additional information, including billing information,
credit card numbers and expiration dates and tracking information
from cheques or money orders. |
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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. |
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Registration Information, Publishing Information, Payment Information,
Statistical Information and any information we may collect from
you through the use of cookies or any other means shall collectively
be referred to as “Collected Information”. |
2. Use Information
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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.
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Registration Information.
We may use your Registration Information to provide services that
you request or to contact you regarding additional services about
which KnittingWeb 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.
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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 KnittingWeb 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.
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Payment Information. KnittingWeb will share your Payment Information
with banks or vendors relevant to the transaction in order to
enable transactions to be completed. In addition, KnittingWeb
may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness
and, in the process of such determination, KnittingWeb 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. KnittingWeb does not maintain electronic or physical copies
of your credit card information. While KnittingWeb 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. KnittingWeb 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.
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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.
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3. Disclosure of Information
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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 KnittingWeb,
our Users, customers, partners, other web Site users or anyone
else who could be harmed by such activities. |
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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. |
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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 KnittingWeb or others.
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4. 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.
5. Cookies
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We use "cookies" to store specific information
about you and track your visits to our Site. 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 deactivate 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 reenter 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. |
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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. |
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 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. Security Measures
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We employ commercially reasonable security methods
to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure
correct use of information. |
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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. |
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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.
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8. 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 KnittingWeb in writing (at the
address set out in the Notice provision of the Terms of Use Agreement)
and specifically request that KnittingWeb return and/or destroy all
copies of all or part of your Collected Information in KnittingWeb’s
possession. This Privacy Policy was last amended on September,2004.
9. Correcting Your Information
You can access, view and edit your Registration Information,
Publishing Information and Payment Information (if any) through your
Account with KnittingWeb. To update or correct such information, please
click here.
10. Your feedback
KnittingWeb welcomes your continuous input regarding
our Privacy Policy or our services provided to you. You may send us
your comments and responses to webmaster@KnittingWeb.com.
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