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PakistaniExporters.com
Privacy Statement
(Updated on December 17, 2003)
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We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement applies
only to this web site. Kindly read the Privacy Statement below for this
web site and services that you may use on this web 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 Pakistan Dot Com Group which by use of this Site you agree
to accept.
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1. The Information We Collect
- 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 to provide information such as your name, address,
phone/fax number, email address and other personal information as well
as information about your business.
- Publishing Information: If you submit any information to us to be
published on this Site through the publishing tools, including but not
limited to Company Profile, Product Catalog, Trade Leads, and any discussion
forum, then you are deemed to have given consent to the publication
of such information.
- Payment Information: If you establish a credit account with us or
if you purchase our services, we may collect additional information,
including billing information, credit card numbers and expiration dates
and tracking information from cheques or money orders.
- 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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2. 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 Pakistan Dot Com Group 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 us 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: We will share your Payment Information with banks
relevant to the transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed.
In addition, 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. Any credit card information
that you provide through the Site is directly submitted to a payment
server of the credit card processing bank. We do not maintain electronic
or physical copies of your credit card information. While we have 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.
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.
- 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
- 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 Pakistan Dot Com Group, 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 us or others.
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4. Co-Branded Relationships
- We have established relationships with other parties to offer you
the benefit of other 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.
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5. Cookies
- 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 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.
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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 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.
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7. 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.
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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
us in writing at our email address and specifically request that we
return and/or destroy all copies of all or part of your Collected Information
in our possession. This Privacy Policy was last amended on Dec 17, 2003.
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9. Correcting Your Information
- You can access, view and edit your Registration Information, Publishing
Information and Payment Information (if any) through your Account with
us. To update or correct such information, please click here.
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10. Your feedback
- We welcome your continuous input regarding our Privacy Policy or our
services provided to you. You may send us your comments and responses
to Pakistaniexporters.com.
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