Confidentiality
and Privacy Statement
April 23, 2001
Privacy
has created this policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. This site contains links to other sites and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such linked Web sites.
Purpose and Scope
This policy discloses what information we gather about you when you visit any of our Web sites. It describes how we use that information and how you can control it.
Information
gathers and tracks collects two kinds of information about users: data that users volunteer by signing up to receive news and information, entering contests, completing surveys, or any other similar initiative; and aggregated tracking data we collect when users interact with us.
Personal information
collects information about you during the site registration process. When you choose to register, our site's registration form requests users to give us contact information (like name, mail address and email address) and demographic information (like age). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user content and information about . Registered users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time, see the How to Update, Correct, or Delete your Information Section.
We use the personal information you provide voluntarily to send information you've requested. The specific use of your personal information varies, depending on how you contact us: When you sign up to receive provided content and/or e-mail lists and/or discussion groups and/or message boards at , you may be required to provide information like your name, company name, occupation, industry, email address, and a password.
When you register to post content on (i.e. calendar events, marketplace products and services), you may be required to provide information like your name, company name, occupation, industry, email address, and a password.
We share contact and visitor information with partners as described below:
With third parties we retain to perform functions on our behalf, such as managing mailing lists, email lists, delivering packages. These parties are restricted from using your information for any other purpose. We reserve the option of renting and selling our physical address mailing list and e-mail list for one-time use to third parties we deem relevant and appropriate.
We release personal information when we believe that release is appropriate to comply with the law, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of , our users, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.
Aggregated tracking information
We analyze visitors' use of our sites by tracking information such as page views, traffic flow, search terms, and click through. We use this information to improve our sites. We also share this anonymous traffic and demographic information in aggregate form with sponsors and other business partners.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser when you visit our sites. Cookies enable our systems to recognize your computer, so that we can provide you with personalized information and features. We also use cookies to track user traffic patterns. On our sites, , sponsors, strategic partners and advertisers may use a third-party ad server to display ads. These ads may contain cookies. The ad server receives these cookies, and we don't have access to them.
uses what we call "cookies" to store registered users names and passwords. This is an optional feature and applies only to users who have registered and who have requested to be remembered. This way we ensure you do not have to logon each time you visit our website.
Third party organizations (such as advertising companies or polling companies who run polling features) may store cookies on your machine in order to ensure uniqueness. Again, these cookies do not identify you or your machine.
Advertising companies and Sponsors may store cookies on your machine in order to measure and report aggregate information such as the number of people who see a page (reach) and the number of times people see their page (frequency).
Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. The detail of the cookie stored by is not shared with third parties.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
Public Forums
makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, email discussions and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Users may opt-out of the email groups at any time; see the How to Update, Correct, or Delete your Information Section.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Ownership
The website, name and URL is owned by OASIS. Content Where a member has contributed content to , said content remains the property of the contributor and does not transfer to or it's owners. By allowing to use the said content, no ownership of is transferred to the contributor, either directly or indirectly. will not sell or resell any content that is not owned by .
Notification of Changes
If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on www.. If we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users via email. Users will be able to opt out of any new use of their personal information.
How to update, correct, or delete your information
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
Email: To update or unsubscribe from our email news and lists, you can remove your email from the list by emailing the unsubscribe email address supplied in each email sent via the email group or you can go to My Section at www. or to News Section. To get help from a human, send email to webmaster <at>
Postal mail: To change your address or delete your name from our mailing list, send email to webmaster <at>
Lawful Purposes Only
All services (free web space, promotional opportunities or other) provided by to visitors (or other) may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission or storage of any information, data or material in violation of any country law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material legally judged to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statue.
The members, subscribers, visitors or users agree to indemnify and hold harmless from any claims resulting from the use of the service which in any way damages the visitor, member or any other parties.
Cancellation of service
may suspend this service at any time and for any reason, without notice.
Disclaimer
exercises no control whatsoever over the content of the information passing through . makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the service it is providing. also disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. will not be responsible for any damage suffered. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, mis-deliveries, or service interruptions caused by 's (or visitors, sponsors, contributors or others) negligence, errors or omissions. Use of any information obtained via is at your own risk. specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through its services.
LIMITED LIABILITY.
IS WITHOUT LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED OR ALLEGEDLY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, VIRUS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, INNACURATE INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OF OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORDS, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTUOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION.
Should any provision of this agreement be held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable by a court law, the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this agreement shall remain unaffected thereby unless otherwise stated.
These Terms and Conditions supersede all previous representations, understandings or agreements and shall prevail notwithstanding any variance with terms and conditions of any order submitted. Use of constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
Prior disclaimers
The policy statement and disclaimer shown above is currently in force.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact General Manager .
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