Privacy Policy

January 19, 2008

This is privacy policy for the web site Circos.com, a service provided by Circos.com, Inc.

At Circos.com, your privacy is of paramount importance to us, and we're committed to protecting your privacy.  If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us by sending us email at privacy@circos.com.

Visitors of Circos.com are able to use some functionalities of the site (e.g. search, browse) without providing any personal information.

Collection of Personal Information

To gain full access to the functionalities, we collect personal information such as your e-mail address, name, the country you're residing in, and your account password. In addition, you may optionally provide your contact information and payment account information for certain functionalities.  Finally, we may collect information about the pages you access or visit, the action taken by you on specific pages, and standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit (such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring web site addresses).

How We Use the Information Collected

The information we collect is used to improve our service, including customizing content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, notifying users about updates to our Web site, facilitating communication between member users, and communicating with users for marketing purposes.

From time to time we may combine the information collected with information from third parties to further improve our service.

Communication with You

When necessary, we will communicate with you through the appropriate communication channels that you designate in your account profile.  These may include mandatory communications (e.g. confirmation of registration, notification of password reset), periodic communications (e.g. member newsletter), and by-request communications (e.g. other user members communicating with you).

If you do not want to receive periodic e-mails from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address.

How We Share the Information Collected

The following describe situations under which we share information collected.

• If you have opted-in to share your personal information with third parties
• In working with our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other trusted partners, we will require that they agree to our instructions and comply with our policy.  We will also request they uphold our confidentiality agreement, and have security measures in place to protect the information
• If we believe that we need to share the information in order to satisfy any applicable law or enforceable governmental request
• If we believe that we need to share the information because our assets, properties, employees, users, or the public may be harmed
• If we believe that we need to share the information to maintain the integrity of our service, which may include addressing fraudulent activities, enforcing our Terms of Use, and addressing technical or security issues
• If Circos.com becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, then we will provide notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy
• Finally, we may also share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated information, such as the number of people that clicked on a particular link.

Use of Cookies

We use cookies -- a cookie is a small text file on your hard drive -- to store information such as account credentials, user preferences, session information, and usage information.  We do this to improve the quality of the service we provide and to maintain continuity of your experience from session to session when possible.

Use of Third Party Advertising Networks

To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.

Changes to the Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice.  If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes.  If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically./p>

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above email address.