This policy covers how China Trade! treats personal information that China Trade! collects and receives, including information related to your past use of China Trade! products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that China Trade! does not own or control, or to people that China Trade! does not employ or manage. In addition, certain China Trade! associated companies such as Inktomi, Overture, and Altavista have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on the links.

Information Collection and Use

General

China Trade! collects personal information when you register with China Trade! , when you use China Trade! products or services, when you visit China Trade! pages or the pages of certain China Trade! partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. China Trade! may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies. When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with China Trade! and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. China Trade! collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

China Trade! automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, China Trade! cookie information, and the page you request.

China Trade! uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

When a child under age 13 attempts to register with China Trade! ,we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a China Trade! Family Account to obtain parental permission.

China Trade! will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.

China Trade! does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion. Information Sharing and Disclosure China Trade! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with China Trade! under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help China Trade! communicate with you about offers from China Trade! and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing China Trade! to collect and use their child's information without consenting to China Trade! sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes; We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of China Trade! 's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We transfer information about you if China Trade! is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, China Trade! will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

China Trade! displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

China Trade! does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

China Trade! advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

China Trade! works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please read our detailed reference links.

Cookies

China Trade! may set and access China Trade! cookies on your computer.

China Trade! lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.

Advertisers or other companies do not have access to China Trade! 's cookies.

China Trade! uses web beacons to access China Trade! cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with China Trade! products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

You can edit your China Trade! Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.

New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the China Trade! service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the China Trade! Newsletter, that are considered part of your China Trade! account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them. You can delete your China Trade! account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Children

Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their child's China Trade! account using tools offered by China Trade! Family Accounts.

If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child's information, parents enrolled in China Trade! Family Accounts can delete their child's account by signing into that child's account and then visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you. To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security at China Trade! Changes to this Privacy Policy

China Trade! may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your China Trade! account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Questions and Suggestions

China Trade! is TRUSTe-certified. This certification applies to all English-language sites under the CTNY.US domain. If you feel that your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe, an independent privacy organization. TRUSTe serves as a liaison with China Trade! to resolve your concern. If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at: info@ctny.us