13D Website Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting 13D.COM. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at our site. By using this site, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy.

1. CONFIDENTIALITY
Your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by us. We shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site.

2. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
In addition to the rights and duties under the 13D RESEARCH SERVICES AGREEMENT, if you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and your password. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You understand that you are financially responsible for all uses of this site by you and those using your login information.

3. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
3.1. For the purposes of establishing and maintaining your subscription account, we will need to maintain an accurate company name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number for you.

3.2. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected from 13D Research's website include, but are not limited to: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, employing firm, and professional expertise and area of interest.

3.3. If you access our support services, we may also need to know certain technical information in order to provide you with proper help; including such things as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP, Linux or Mac OS X Panther) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

3.4. We also may use your IP address to help diagnose our ability to properly deliver our services, problems with our server and to administer our website. We may also analyze our log files to improve the website navigation and features. Also, we will use your IP address to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms and Conditions, or this Privacy Policy, or to protect our service, site, customers, or others.

4. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION
4.1. We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products and services, and to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

4.2. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you of when we make changes to our Terms of Use, to the 13D Research Services Agreement, to fulfill a request by you, or to contact you about your membership with us. As explained below, you may opt-out of this service.

4.3. We also sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet browsing experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage.

4.4. We do not sell personally identifiable information to third parties.

5. MONITORING
We reserve the right to monitor and review any information transmitted or received through this site and sensor, edit, remove or prohibit the transmission or receipt of any information that we, in our sole discretion, deem inappropriate or a violation of the Terms of Use for this site.

6. RIGHTS AS TO MATERIALS YOU PROVIDE
By uploading or submitting any suggestions, ideas, comments, questions or other materials to us you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) us a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive and assignable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology. In addition, you warrant that all "moral rights" (as defined by the US Copyright Act) in those materials have been waived – unless otherwise directly coordinated with a 13D Research staff member.

7. DISCLOSURE OF THE INFORMATION
7.1. We may disclose personally identifiable information to a nonaffiliated third party to perform services or functions on our behalf (such as for third party payment arrangements). We may also disclose such information to a consumer reporting agency in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.).

7.2. We may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or court order, as requested by a government agency or by law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary to protect the safety of our customers, employees or property.

8. SECURITY
8.1. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

8.2 Agents and contractors of 13D who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for 13D.

8.3 Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

9. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SPONSORS
9.1. 13d.com contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

9.2. 13D sometimes may offer content that is sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. 13D has no control over these third parties' use of this information and thus 13D will not be liable for any such third parties' use or misuse of such information. At the time you provide personally identifiable information to 13D, 13D will notify you if these third parties may obtain such information. 13D will then provide you the opportunity to opt-out of sharing such information with such third parties.

10. COOKIES
10.1. To allow our website to function properly and enhance your experience with our site, we may need to use "cookies". Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your log-in information during a session. You are welcome to delete any cookies placed on your computer by our server. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, once you choose to furnish us with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

10.2 We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site) or to save your password in password-protected areas.

11. HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION
11.1 To view and update your account the personally identifiable information you can call our customer support line at (208) 726-1565 or send us an e-mail.

11.2. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

12. HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about the 13D Privacy Policy or its implementation, please contact us.

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