Plumbing-info.com (www.Plumbing-info.com) is owned and operated by Globe Group Inc., a company incorporated under the International Business Companies Act, 1984 of the British Virgin Islands. The BVI is a self-governing Crown Colony or “Overseas Territory” under the protection of the British Government.

Plumbing-info.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Plumbing-info.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Definitions

“You” “Yours”

“Services”

“The Portal”

“Plumbing-info.com” “We” “Us” “Globe Group Inc.”

“Content”

What Personal Information About Users Does Plumbing-info.com Gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your browsing experience at Plumbing-info.com. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web portal or give us in any other way. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future browsing for you, improving our database, and communicating with you.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies", and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses Plumbing-info.com. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see examples of the information we receive. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at Plumbing-info.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from Plumbing-info.com if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our member list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our members.

Information from Other Sources: For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for example special offers that we think will interest you), we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

What About Cookies?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as discussion forum, member area etc.

Other organizations that place advertising on the Portal also have the ability to assign a different cookie to your browser in a process that we do not control.

The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Plumbing-info.com's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does Plumbing-info.com Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our members is an important part of our portal, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share member information only with the subsidiaries Plumbing-info.com controls and as described below.

Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses, an example of which is Amazon.com, our Books merchant. In some cases, these businesses operate stores at Plumbing-info.com or sell offerings to you at Plumbing-info.com. In other cases, we operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these businesses. You can tell when another business is involved in your transactions, and we share customer information related to those transactions with that business.

Advertisers and Links to other sites: Plumbing-info.com contains links to other sites not affiliated with Globe Group Inc. These companies and/or the advertisers on our Portal may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or link. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy and Globe Group Inc. will not be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these unaffiliated web sites.

Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from member lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing member service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of Plumbing-info.com members on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please contact us.

Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our portal, we might sell or buy database or assets. In such transactions, member information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the unlikely event that Plumbing-info.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.

Protection of Plumbing-info.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Plumbing-info.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Search Results: Plumbing-info.com has an internal search engine incorporated in the portal. The search engine is devised to search our database of members using the inputs given by the user of the site and there by display the results conforming to the search criteria used. The search result will show the members’ profile and contact information.

With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

We work to protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

What Information Can I Access?

Plumbing-info.com gives you access to the following information about you for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, for updating that information. This list will change as our Web site evolves.

The following sections in Member Area:

Edit Profile

Upgrade Listing

Change Password

Add/Remove Products/Brands

Messages in Message Box

What Choices Do I Have?

As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to be a member or to take advantage of such Plumbing-info.com features as Newsletter and Discussion forums.

You can add or update certain information on pages such as those listed in the "What Information Can I Access?" section above. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please contact us. (Even if you do not want to receive notices on changes in Terms of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, those notices will still govern your use of Plumbing-info.com, and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)

The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use such important features as Discussion Forums, Membership update etc. if you do not use cookies.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit Plumbing-info.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of British Virgin Islands. If you have any concern about privacy at Plumbing-info.com, please send us a thorough description using the form given in the Contact Us page, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Terms of Use will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes.

Changes to this Policy

Plumbing-info.com may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Related Practices and Information

Terms of Use

Software Disclaimer

Information You Give Us

You provide most such information when you search, advertise, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with Member service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; make an application for advertisement; provide information in Your Profile (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one e-mail address when browsing with us); communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; submit articles to our site, participate in Discussion Boards, post messages using Message Board, or provide and rate Reviews. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone number; credit card information; the references you made including address and phone number; content of reviews and e-mails to us; personal description and financial information.

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login name and password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system and platform; browsing history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) click stream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; pages you viewed or searched for; and phone number used to contact us.

Your Questions or Suggestions Regarding This Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the practices of this site, please contact us.

This statement does not extend to sites that are linked to or which are not part of Plumbing-info.com and Globe Group Inc.

All trademarks are recognized as belonging to their respective companies.

Last Update: March 10, 2002

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