This is the Privacy Policy governing your use of the
BDC smeXchange.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
smeXchange.com which by use of this Site you agree to
accept.
The Information We Collect
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.")
Publishing Information: If you submit any information
to smeXchange.com to be published on the Site through
the publishing tools, including but not limited to
Company Profile, Product Catalog, and any discussion forum, then you are deemed to
have given consent to the publication of such
information ("Publishing Information").
Payment Information: If you establish a credit
account with us or our providers or if you purchase a
product or service from smeXchange.com or a vendor
available through smeXchange.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").
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").
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".
How We May Use Information
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.Registration Information: We may
use your Registration Information to provide services
that you request or to contact you regarding additional
services about which smeXchange.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.
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
smeXchange.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.
Payment Information: smeXchange.com will share your
Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to
the transaction in order to enable transactions to be
completed. In addition, smeXchange.com may use Payment
Information to determine your credit-worthiness and, in
the process of such determination, smeXchange.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.
smeXchange.com does not maintain electronic or physical
copies of your credit card information. While
smeXchange.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. smeXchange.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.
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.
Disclosure of 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
smeXchange.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 such
disclosure is required by law, regulation or
administrative order of any court, governmental or
regulatory authority.
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
smeXchange or others.
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.
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 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.
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.
Security Measures
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
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.
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.
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 smeXchange.com in writing (at the address
set out in the Notice provision of the Terms of Use
Agreement) and specifically request that smeXchange.com
return and/or destroy all copies of all or part of your
Collected Information in smeXchange.com's possession.
This Privacy Policy was last amended on September 20,
2005.
Correcting Your Information
You can access, view and edit your Registration
Information, Publishing Information and Payment
Information (if any) through your Account with
smeXchange.com. To update or correct such information,
please
click here.
Your feedback
smeXchange.com welcomes your continuous input regarding
our Privacy Policy or our services provided to you. You
may send us your comments and responses to
privacy@smeXchange.com .
