Sites to Which This Privacy Policy Applies
This statement discloses the privacy practices for North American Certified Trading and its
website located at http://www.nactcoin.com. This
statement in its present form is effective as of 08/01/06.
This statement is applicable only to this website, and not to any other websites that you
may be able to access from this website, each of which may have data collection, storage
and use practices and policies that differ materially from this privacy policy statement.
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice
and statement of policy. It explains our information practices and the choices you can
make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to
find, we make it available as a direct link from all pages of our websites.
A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors not submit any personal
information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your
parents or guardians.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never
collect or maintain information from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our
websites are structured to attract anyone under 18.
The Information We Collect
This privacy policy statement and notice applies to all information collected or submitted on
the North American Certified Trading website(s). The website(s) are identified in the
Sites to Which This Privacy Policy Applies section of this document.
In our online registration forms and during our telephone registration process, we require
you to provide us with information about you. This includes your full name, full street
address, phone number, and your e-mail address. As part of the registration process, we
assign you a personal User ID and password. We consider this ID and password to be your
personal information, and treat it as such.
If you place an order for any merchandise that we sell, we may ask that you provide us
with your billing address, shipping address, and credit card information. The credit
card information that we may ask you to give us will include the name of the credit
card that you would like us to use, the credit card number, and the card's expiration
date. In those circumstances where we request credit card information, we may use the
information that you provide us to verify your name, address and other personal
information in addition to charging your account for the merchandise or services that you buy.
In the course of using our websites, we may automatically track certain information
about you. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this
URL is on our website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our
website or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address. Note that many other
websites also collect this information automatically.
Please know that we use cookies on certain pages of our websites. We use cookies for several
purposes, including remembering your log-in information so that you don't have to enter it
on every registered-user page. We also use cookies to keep some of your personal preferences,
and to track new users coming from banner ads so that we can see which ads are most cost effective.
Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our websites. You are always free to decline our
cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may be required to reenter your
password and log-in information more frequently during a session. Declining cookies may
also prevent you from using many of the features that our websites offer.
Cookies are a greatly misunderstood mechanism of the web. They simply allow a web site to send your browser
an ID code, so that when you view other pages from the same web site, the web site can tell it's still you.
They do not release any private information about you. You alone would have to do that yourself, by typing
information into a form and submitting it.
Without cookies, a web site would not know you were still the same person as you moved from page to page.
While this worked fine for when the web was just a place to retrieve documents, it doesn't work if you're
trying to bid in an auction, keep a shopping cart, or otherwise interact with the user.
Almost all browsers allow you to view all of the cookies you are keeping, and some allow you to selectively
delete cookies that you don't want. This illustrates the non-threatening nature of cookies. There is nothing
secret and nothing to hide.
If you set your browser to reject cookies, you will be severely limiting your ability to interact with most web sites.
If you choose to buy on our websites, we collect information about your buying behavior.
If you choose to post messages on our message boards, in our chat rooms, or in other
message areas of our websites, we may collect such information about you as you choose to disclose.
If you use a third party service made available to you from one of our websites, or buy
merchandise from a third party whose merchandise is offered on one of our websites' pages,
the third party provider may send us information about you. You should check the third
party's privacy policy. Regardless of the third party's privacy policy, please know that
any information that we receive from such a third party will be treated by us as if it was
received directly from you, and therefore we will use such information only as described
in this privacy policy statement and notice.
If you send us personal correspondence such as e-mails or letters, or if other users or
third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on our websites,
we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
The Way We Use Information
Internally, we use the information that we collect, including personally identifiable
information, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze
site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, and to enhance our websites'
content and layout. We believe these uses allow us to improve our services and better
meet our customers' needs and desires.
We may also use the information that we collect, including personally identifiable
information, to deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your
specific interests. This information may include promotions, or information about
changes in our policies or procedures. If you do not wish to receive this information
and request us not to send it to you, we will honor your request and remove your name
from our lists.
From time to time, we use your e-mail address or other contact information to communicate
with you regarding administrative matters or to provide you with information that we
believe that you will want.
If you choose to buy coins or open a credit account, we will use your address and other
applicable personal information to process your orders and otherwise service your needs.
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from
your current and past activities on our websites, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems,
and enforce our terms and other published policies.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We promise never to sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third
party. However, we may share non-identifying or aggregate information that does not disclose our
customers' identity from time to time with our website designers, advertisers, or others. For
example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on one
of our websites, or that Y number of men and Z number of women registered with us.
From time to time we are provided information about someone else (for example, when a buyer asks
us to deliver an item to a friend or other third party). When this occurs, we use the information
provided only to complete the applicable order, and do not share this information with outside
parties except to the extent necessary to complete the particular order.
We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are not shared with
outside parties or added to our mailing lists. We may, however, use such addresses to update our
registered user profiles and e-mail address lists.
From time to time, we may share contact information (such as your name, mailing address and email
address) with other member companies of the Escala Group of which we are a part, for marketing purposes
or in connection with a contractual right which you have granted to such a company. If you do not want
us to share your contact information with other members of the Escala Group for marketing purposes, please
contact us in the manner set forth below in this statement, but please understand that such a request will
likely limit your ability to take advantage of all of the features and services that we offer on this website.
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private
communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not
otherwise described in this notice and privacy policy statement. By way of example (without limiting
the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain
circumstances (such as pursuant to subpoena or other legal document), or third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private communications. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose any
information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe
necessary or appropriate. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do
not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications
will remain private.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put
in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and
secure the information that we collect about our customers.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect about you by calling or writing
us at our corporate offices at the numbers and addresses provided in the Contact Us
section of this privacy policy statement and notice. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that
credibly shows error.
To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting
access or making corrections, which may include asking you to provide us with personal information about
yourself. In such event, we may record and maintain the information provided in order to further protect
your privacy.
Lost Or Stolen Information
You must promptly notify us if your credit card, user name or password is lost, stolen or used without
permission. In such an event, we will remove that credit card number, user name, or password from your
account and update our records accordingly.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may from time to time update and modify our privacy policy. If we do so, we will post any such change,
update or modification on our website which will become effective upon such posting and without other notice.
If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check the privacy policy statement on this
website periodically.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us.
If you have any questions or comments about North American Certified Trading, or the North
American Certified Trading website, please call us at: 800-359-4255. You may also send
e-mail to North American Certified Trading at info@nactcoin.com
and regular mail to North American Certified Trading at Customer Service, 18061 Fitch, Irvine, CA 92614-6018