THE NETWORK PLACE PRIVACY POLICY

1. Personal Info
2. Unsubscribing
3. Data Sharing
4. Data Security
5. Data Collection
6. Children Protection

The Network Place is committed to protecting the privacy of each of its customers and business affiliates, as well as ensuring that you have a positive experience on our website. This policy outlines our practices for the handling of data both online and offline. If you furnish us with information of a personal or confidential nature, we will treat it consistent with this policy.

In order to ensure that you understand The Network Place's privacy practices, we encourage you to review this privacy policy, as well as to contact us if you have any questions about it.

This policy covers The Network Place website. Some of our affiliates may have their own, possibly different, policies. We encourage you to read this privacy policy as well as those of all other websites you may visit.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

When The Network Place requires any information of a personal nature on our website, we will express our need for such information at the point of collection. Personal information represents anything that could be used to identify an individual, such as name, email address, postal or other physical address, title, occupation, and other information required to provide a service, deliver a product, or carry out a transaction that has been requested. We might request personal information for a number of reasons, such as:

To participate in discussion groups.
To collaborate in joint efforts for services.
To arrange registration in membership programs or newsletter subscriptions.
To provide registered users a more individualized and meaningful experience on "thenetworkplace.com" website.

USES MADE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use information that you supply of a personal nature in the way that we specify at the time the information is collected. We will not subsequently change the way that your personal information is used without your consent. Some of the ways in which we might use your personal information include:

To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and to view protected content.
To enable us to contact you, and to provide you with shipping and billing information.
To allow for customer feedback and support.
To offer participation in, and to administer, contests, sweepstakes or other marketing promotional activities on "thenetworkplace.com" website.
To allow for your voluntary participation in questionnaires and surveys designed to provide better products and services to our customers and end users.
To support recruitment inquiries.
To understand more about you (such as what products and services are of interest to you), so that we might personalize newsletters and websites to your preferences.
To allow you to forward information to other individuals, such as friends or co-workers. The collection of such information would be for the sole purpose of sending a one-time email. The Network Place will not store the personal information of any third party. If you use our referral service to inform a colleague or friend about us, we would ask only for a contact name and email address.
To keep your personal information up to date. We need your help in keeping the personal information you have shared with us accurate as possible. Therefore, kindly notify us of any changes to your personal information. Most of our sites allow you to make these updates yourself online.

UNSUBSCRIBING

Subscriptions to some online newsletters may be managed through the body of an email message. Each such newsletter would include instructions on how you can unsubscribe from that particular mailing.

You may also unsubscribe from The Network Place's various newsletters by sending a letter, including your name, email address and the title of the marketing material to which you wish to unsubscribe from to:

The Network Place, LLC
Unsubscribe/Privacy
209 West 40th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10018

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION

The Network Place may collect information of a non-personal (aggregate or demographic) nature through cookies, web logs and web beacons. This information would be used simply to better understand and to improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of The Network Place website.

The Network Place will not sell or rent your personal information to any third party unless you have granted us permission to do so. We may share your personal information within The Network Place or any of our affiliated companies for purposes of data processing or storage. We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. For example, if were to need to deliver something to you, we would share your name and address with a delivery service. We would only provide such third-party agents or contractors with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction.

While navigating "thenetworkplace.com" web site, you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third-party supplier. This is typically done to host special events, such as contests, in connection with which information is collected exclusively on behalf of The Network Place and will continue to be subject to our privacy policy unless such third-party host specifically provides for some other policy. It is our practice to require all third-parties to handle information in a manner consistent with The Network Place's privacy and security policies.

We will ask you for your opt-in consent to share your personal information with a third party for any other reason.

In the event that we were to receive a court order or subpoena requesting the disclosure of your personal information or any related information, all reasonable efforts would be made to notify you of that fact before any such disclosure is made. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or to defend against any legal claims.

We reserve the right to collect, and possibly to share, personal information and any other information made available to us in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or entity, violations of The Network Place's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

PERSONALIZATION

In order to enhance the overall web experience, The Network Place may customize websites or newsletters for certain users, based on information furnished either directly or through "thenetworkplace.com" website.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Network Place is committed to protecting any personal information that you share with us. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Whenever we transmit sensitive personal data (for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

Although we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guaranty the security of the information that you transmit electronically. Whenever you use the Internet, we recommend that you to take every precaution possible in protecting your personal information. For example, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, change your passwords frequently, and make sure you use a secure web browser.

COOKIES

The Network Place's website utilizes cookies, although you can still access most pages on that site even if you choose to disable cookies in your web browser. Some websites will not allow you to complete certain activities if cookies are disabled. For example, most or all transactions done through our e-commerce site session will require cookies and persistent in order to be processed. If you do not allow cookies, the associated shopping basket will not work, and you will not be able to place an order.

DATA COLLECTION

The Network Place may use multiple third parties to monitor web traffic, statistics, advertisement "click-through," and other activities on "thenetworkplace.com" website. Where authorized by us, such third parties may use cookies, web log files, web beacons, and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous aggregate statistics on our website visitors.

We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail newsletters in order to count how many newsletters (or particular articles, links, etc.) are being accessed at any given point in time.

Current versions of web browsers offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third-party cookies. For more information on cookie management features available to you, search for "cookies" under your web browser's Help menu.

The Network Place will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

The Network Place's website may provide links to other third-party websites, which are outside our control and not covered by our privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) websites.

CHILDREN PROTECTION

The Network Place does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information on a child under the age of 18, we will take appropriate action to delete that data from our systems. The Network Place encourages parents and guardians to go online with their children. Consider the following advice to help make a child's online experience safer:

Teach children never to transmit personal information (such as name, address, phone number, school, etc.) online, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult.
Know the websites that your children are visiting, and make an effort to learn which sites are appropriate.
In order to learn how your child's information is treated, look for and review website privacy policies.
Visit the Federal Trade Commission's website (ftc.gov) for additional tips on protecting children's privacy online.

TRANSFER INFORMATION

We may transfer your personal information to The Network Place's affiliated companies, or to third parties acting on our behalf, for the purposes of processing or storage.