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| Legal Notices
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This Web site is provided by The Silk Trading Co.,
Inc. (The Silk Trading Co.) and may be used for informational purposes only. By
using the site, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions set forth in
these Legal Notices. If you do not agree to abide by these terms and
conditions, then do not use the site.
Any questions regarding these Legal Notices should be directed to:
customerservice@silktrading.com
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| Copyright
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| Copyright © 2004 Silk Trading Co., Inc., 5900
Blackwelder Street, Culver City, CA 90232, U.S.A. The images, text,
organization and layout (collectively "Materials") of this site are copyrighted
and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. Subject to
fair use exceptions, the Silk Trading Co. does not authorize any downloading,
distribution or republication of any Materials on this site. All rights
reserved.
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| Trademark
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| The Silk Trading Co.® is a registered trademark
licensed by The Silk Trading Co., Inc., and may not be used without the express
written consent of the owners of the registered trademark.
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| Privacy Statement
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Effective August 31, 2004
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to
customerservice@silktrading.com
This web site is the responsibility of The Silk Trading Co., Inc. The Silk
Trading Co. can be contacted by mail at 5900 Blackwelder Street, Culver City,
CA 90232, attention Public Relations or by e-mail at
customerservice@silktrading.com. The web server on which this web site
is housed is owned and maintained by the Silk Trading Co. The following
policies apply to www.silktrading.com and all other web sites owned and
operated by The Silk Trading Co.
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| 1. Collection of Personal Information from Site
Visitors
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In order to access certain subscriber services or
restricted areas within any of our web sites, we may require that you provide
certain identifying information. This information may include your legal name,
address, telephone number, e-mail address, subscriber name or screen name,
password used to access our services, method of payment, and, if applicable,
credit card number. We reserve the right to request any additional information
necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of these services.
The Silk Trading Co. automatically collects and/or tracks (1) the home server
domain names, e-mail addresses, type of client computer, and type of web
browser of visitors to our web site, (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that
communicate with us via e-mail, post messages to our bulletin boards, or post
messages to our chat groups, (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor
in sales orders, registration forms, surveys, and contest entries, and (4)
aggregate or specific information on what pages visitors access.
Some Silk Trading Co. pages use a technology called "cookies" so that we can
better serve visitors when they purchase a product on our web site, request
additional information about our company, products or services, or participate
in various activities posted on our site. These cookies may be used to obtain
data such as the visitor's name, user-name, shopping cart, and pages or
advertisements viewed by the visitor. When the visitor revisits the company's
web site, we can recognize the visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the
visitor's experience accordingly. Although cookies are stored on the visitor's
hard drive and not stored, in any form, by us, the visitor can set his or her
browser to provide notice whenever a cookie is received, which gives the
visitor the opportunity to decide whether to accept it or not.
Certain Silk Trading Co. Web Site pages may have software installed within the
page which provides us with information about the "clickstream" of our
customers during their Silk Trading Co. Web Site visit. This software indicates
which pages the visitors came from, what navigational paths they took, and
which areas of the site they visited.
Certain email communications you may receive from us, if you sign up for our
email distribution service, may contain "Web beacons". Web beacons consist of a
line of code on our site that delivers a small graphic image from another Web
site or third party ad server. They may not be visible as the beacon is
generally a 1x1 pixel that is often designed to blend into the background of a
Web page. We use may use beacons to monitor the effectiveness of ad banners in
our email distributions.
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| 2. Use of Personal Data Collected
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| Except for product purchases, personal data collected
by us will only be used for marketing and promotional purposes, feedback
purposes, for a statistical analysis of users' behavior, for product
development or enhancement, for content improvement, and to customize content
and layout of our site, when requested by the Customer or Web Site User. Names,
postal and e-mail addresses, and phone numbers collected may be added to our
databases and used for future contact regarding new products and services,
upcoming events, status of orders placed online, and customer service, only
when requested by the Customer or Web Site User.
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| 3. Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties
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We maintain a secured area on our site for
transmission of personal data, and store all personal data in a secure online
database which is connected to the Internet or a private database which is not
connected to the Internet or both. Although we will use all reasonable efforts
to safeguard the confidentiality of the personal data you provide to us,
transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure.
We will have no liability for disclosure of such data due to errors in
transmission or interception by unauthorized acts of third parties.
It is the policy of The Silk Trading Co. not to share any information about our
customers to third parties for except for the following purposes: we may
disclose information to vendors who facilitate and/or support our customer
transactions; we may disclose information to entities to whom we are legally
required to disclose information; and/or we may disclose information to third
parties where directed by a customer or with the customer’s permission.
Any third party with whom we have a relationship pursuant to which we provide
or otherwise disclose data collected from visitors to our site will be
carefully pre-screened, determined by us to be reputable, and will use the data
provided solely for the purposes stated herein.
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| 4. Opt-Out Rights
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| Visitors may opt out of having their personal
information disclosed to third parties (excluding any mandatory disclosure to
government agencies and/or certain vendors who facilitate and/or support our
customer transactions), or used by us to send promotional materials to the
visitor, by contacting us by e-mail.
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| 5. Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data
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| Upon request by e-mail or by mail, we will provide to
visitors a summary of any personal information retained by us regarding the
visitor. Visitors may modify, correct, or update their personal record or cause
their personal record to be removed from our database. Company will only send
personal records to the e-mail address on file for the visitor name associated
with it.
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| 6. Company's Right to Contact Visitors
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| We reserve the right to contact site visitors
regarding their account status and changes to any subscriber agreement, privacy
policy, or any other policies or agreements relevant to site visitors.
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| 7. Company's Right to Change Privacy Policy
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| We reserve the right to change this policy at any
time by notifying visitors of the existence and location of the new or revised
privacy policy.
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