Earth-assets.com ("Website") provides service to you subject to the following Privacy Policy, which may be periodically updated by Earth Assets Group ("EAG") without notice to you. In addition, when using particular earth-assets.com services, you and Earth Assets Group shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the Privacy Policy below and made available to all Website users.

PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT

Your privacy, and the privacy of all registered users of the Website is of the highest priority. The following paragraphs will tell you, among other things, what information we gather from you, how it may be used or disclosed by us and the efforts made to protect it. Please read this statement carefully. If you have any questions, please contact us at: info@earth-assets.com.

Information we collect from you

In connection with your use of this Website, including the purchase, sale, and trade transactions by you of listed items on the Website, we ask for and may collect a variety of information from you in different ways.

When you register to use the Website through our Online User Registration Form, we ask for and store your name, and if applicable, your business name, jurisdiction of formation, address, e-mail address, a brief description of the nature of your business and other identifying contact data. In addition to this user information, we also collect and store statistics and other information about the online activities of registered users, such as tracking the number of people who view certain pages or use certain features of the Website, and the number and magnitude of trades and sales conducted using the system. We may also collect the information you disclose in any of our chat rooms, discussion groups and bulletin boards.

We collect information through the use of cookies. Cookies are small pieces of data, or data files, which are sent by a Website to your web browser and are stored on your computer's hard drive. They are used to track activity on the Website to enable us to better serve your needs and interests and to help protect confidential data. Use of the Website requires that you accept the use of cookies. The information stored in the cookie is valid only for a single on-line session. Even if someone were able to decipher the information contained in a cookie, the information becomes useless after you log out of earth-assets.com.

Safeguarding your information

We use industry-standard encryption methods to transmit your personal registration information from your computer to ours across the Internet, and we restrict access to any portion of the Website to computers running web browsers that support Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. To use this protection technology, you need to have an SSL-capable browser, such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 or higher or America Online 3.0 or higher. These browsers will automatically activate the technology when you log on to earth-assets.com.

Please remember that you play a valuable part in security as well. Your password to access the Website, which you select at registration, should never be shared with anyone and should be changed frequently. After you have finished using the Website you should log off from earth-assets.com and exit your browser so no unauthorized persons can use the Website with your name and account information.

Regardless of the precautions taken by you and by us, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit such information at your own risk.

Our use of your information

We primarily use the information gathered from users to help us improve the Website. We may use certain pieces of personal information, collected through registration or otherwise, to construct aggregate demographic or statistical pictures of our users and the transactions conducted using earth-assets.com. Aggregate information allows us to continue to support you with quality fellow users and provide you improved service.

Another use of your information may be to fulfill certain legal and regulatory requirements with regard to certain transactions in listed items conducted using earth-assets.com.

We may use your e-mail address to correspond with you regarding service and product information that we believe may be of interest to you. Please contact us at info@earth-assets.com if you do not wish to receive unsolicited electronic communications (other than account-related communications) from us.

Disclosure of your information

Your registration information, such as your name, address and e-mail address, generally will not be disclosed to any third party. At the registration screen, you may choose an alias as your user name if you do not wish to have your name appear in lists provided in various communications services available on the Website. You may also choose to change your alias after your initial registration. Note that your organization's name will still appear in various communications functions even if you choose an alias for your name.

If you are authorized to act as a broker on the Website, we generally will not disclose information related to the identity of your clients, to third parties.

We may disclose aggregate data and statistics, as described above, in order to describe earth-assets.com to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

We may also disclose part or all of your information, including information about Brokers' clients, when we believe, in good faith, that the law requires or compels such disclosure, or when we have a good faith reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, to protect the rights of another user or to prevent harm.

Your use of other users' information

In the course of your use of the Website you will have access to other users' e-mail addresses, phone numbers and transaction data. By entering into the Online User Agreement, you agree to use this information for the sole purpose of conducting business transactions with respect to earth-assets.com. Under no circumstances may you disclose registration or transaction information of another user to a third party without the consent of the user.

Editing and updating your information

Once you have registered your information on earth-assets.com you have the opportunity to modify any part of the information entered in your Online User Registration Form. We may contact you via your e-mail address to confirm or verify any changes. Your new entries will replace the information you previously provided.

Additional privacy information

Please remember that any information you voluntarily disclose on-line in any news or message postings, or discussion forums, may be collected and used by others without your permission. Furthermore, if you provide any information to parties who provide web sites that are linked to or from the Website, different rules may apply to their collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to review these sites' policies before revealing any sensitive or personal information.

Earth Assets Group may update this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Thus we encourage you to review this document from time to time to refresh yourself as to its content.

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