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PRIVACY AND LEGAL

The following Terms and Conditions apply to all CentralAsia.net websites, including web directory and email service.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

By using CENTRALASIA.NET, you warrant to CENTRALASIA.NET that you will not use CENTRALASIA.NET Sites, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the CENTRALASIA.NET Sites automatically terminates.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

The CENTRALASIA.NET Sites are owned, operated, or managed by CENTRALASIA.NET for the purpose of providing free and paid web directory listings, email service, news, articles, and other informational content.

REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS

When requested, each CENTRALASIA.NET Site user must: (1) personally provide true, accurate, current and complete information on the CENTRALASIA.NET Site's registration form (collectively, the "Registration Data") and (2) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data as necessary to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If, after investigation, CENTRALASIA.NET has reasonable grounds to suspect that any user's information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, CENTRALASIA.NET may suspend or terminate that user's account and prohibit any and all current or future use of the CENTRALASIA.NET Sites (or any portion thereof) by that user other than as expressly provided herein.

Each user will receive passwords and account designations upon completing certain CENTRALASIA.NET Site registration processes and is wholly responsible for maintaining the confidentiality thereof and wholly liable for all activities occurring thereunder. CENTRALASIA.NET cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from a user's failure to comply with this Section, including any loss or damage arising from any user's failure to: (1) immediately notify CENTRALASIA.NET of any unauthorized use of his or her password or account or any other breach of security; and (2) ensure that he or she exits from his or her account at the end of each session.

PRIVACY AND LEGAL

USE OF INFORMATION
The Internet is not a secure medium, and neither the privacy of your communications, nor visits to this Web Site, can be guaranteed. The nature of Internet communications means that your communications may be susceptible to data corruption, unauthorized access, interception and delays.

This Web Site may include incomplete information, inaccuracies or typographical errors. CENTRALASIA.NET, and any other persons involved in the management of this Web Site, may make changes in the information and content included in this Web Site at any time without notice.

CENTRALASIA.NET shall not be responsible for any detrimental reliance you may place on this Web Site or its contents. Use of this Web Site is on an "as is" basis and is strictly entirely at your own risk. By entering this Web Site you acknowledge and agree that any communication or material you transmit to this Web Site, in any manner and for any reason, will not be treated as confidential or proprietary.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through e-mail, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, by posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

SHARING INFORMATION
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
CENTRALASIA.NET may serve advertisements on this site or work with a third party to serve the advertisements.

Advertisements placed on the site may include but are not limited to banner ads, paid links, pop-up windows, buttons, and sponsorships. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site.

User agrees that CENTRALASIA.NET has the right to run such advertisements and promotions. Your correspondence or business dealing with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Services, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that CENTRALASIA.NET shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Services.

COMMUNICATION
CENTRALASIA.NET may, from time to time, send email messages to registered email Users containing advertisements, special promotions, and other marketing materials ("Email Marketing Programs") based on the agreed terms between CENTRALASIA.NET and its selected partner(s). CENTRALASIA.NET may also offer Users permission-based email services. Users must decide to "opt-in" to our email services during the registration process or through a link on the CENTRALASIA.NET site before they receive any email services, newsletters, special promotions or other marketing materials ("Opt-In Email Programs"). CENTRALASIA.NET has the right to partner with any email marketers to provide these Email Marketing Programs or Opt-In Email Programs.

In our communication with our site users, we may do the following:

  1. Send you a welcoming email upon registration to any area of the site in order to verify password and username.
  2. Send established members information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we will present the option to not receive these types of communications.
  3. Send you service announcements notifying you of any new products or updates to the service.
  4. On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.
  5. Send you emails that highlight certain features or information and provide you with information about additional products and services we think might be of interest to you.
  6. We will provide you with the opportunity to "opt out" of email communications, beginning with the first one.
  7. Give you the choice of "opting in" to receive third party mailings.
  8. Make it easy for you to unsubscribe and opt-out by following directions at the bottom of any e-mail that you receive from us, unless it is vital to the operation of your account.
We will not:
  1. Send you unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam).
  2. Contact you via e-mail or any other method to ask you for your password. Do not share your password with anyone; you should only enter it directly into our Web site.
  3. Contact you via e-mail or any other method to ask you for your credit card information. You should only enter this information directly into our Web site.
  4. Materially change how we use your personally identifiable information without placing a prominent notice on our Web site first.

SURVEYS & CONTESTS

Our site may request information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as postal code), as well as questions about hobbies, interests and other information. Contact information will be used shared with the contest sponsors to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users’ personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

INQUIRIES, MAINTAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our users will be given the opportunity to ‘opt-in’ to having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information.

Users who no longer wish to receive promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on an ‘unsubscribe’ link in an email we send you or emailing us at customerservice@CENTRALASIA.NET.

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users’ personally identifiable information. This can usually be done at the by emailing our Customer Support at customerservice@CENTRALASIA.NET.

If at any time you have any questions or concerns about this policy, you wish to update or correct any personally identifiable information you have provided, or you no longer wish us to collect, use or disclose any personally identifiable information for the purposes described above, please do not hesitate to contact us by clicking on the "Contact Us" link anywhere on the Web Site, or by emailing us at customerservice@CENTRALASIA.NET.

If we do not hear otherwise from you, we will assume the information you provide is accurate and up-to-date and that you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of the personally identifiable information you provide us about yourself or others for the purposes described above.

NO WARRANTY ON CONTENTS, INFORMATION AND MATERIALS

Although the specifications, features, illustrations, equipment and other information contained in this Web Site are based upon reasonably current information, and while CENTRALASIA.NET makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the material on this Web Site is correct, accuracy cannot be guaranteed and CENTRALASIA.NET makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. All contents, information and materials contained in this Web Site are provided to you "AS IS", without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

ACCESS CONTROL

We shall have the right, at all times, to prevent, intercept, prohibit or otherwise restrict, your access to and/or use of this Web Site, including Forums and any other tools and applications, if CENTRALASIA.NET determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that you have not (or CENTRALASIA.NET has a reasonable basis to believe or expect that you may not) fully complied with all of the provisions set out in this contract.

CENTRALASIA.NET retains the right, at its sole discretion, to determine whether or not User's conduct is consistent with the letter and spirit of the TOS and may terminate Services if CENTRALASIA.NET determines in its sole discretion that

User's conduct is inconsistent with the TOS. CENTRALASIA.NET assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store, deliver, or timely deliver data, including email messages.

CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF A GAME IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SITE PROVIDERS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

CENTRALASIA.NET shall not be responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Web Site or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in this Web Site. Site Providers assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or authorized access to, or alteration of, entries.

CENTRALASIA.NET shall not be responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line-systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or members on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to members or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from using services or downloading materials in this Web Site. If, for any reason, this Web Site is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Site Providers which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Web Site, Site Providers reserve the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the services or Web Site indefinitely.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Site Providers, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliate, directors, sponsors, officers, consultants, agents, and employees against and from all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses asserted by third parties alleging that the Web Site includes obscenity, libel, slander, or infringes upon the third party's intellectual property or privacy rights, as a direct result of your actions in the use of the web Site. You further agree to not knowingly, damage or cause interruption of the services on the Web Site; prevent others from using the Web Site; or obtain or modify another user's non-public account information without their consent.

PERSONAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

CENTRALASIA.NET is the owner of the information collected on CENTRALASIA.NET and other domains used by CENTRALASIA.NET.

CENTRALASIA.NET may collect information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

CENTRALASIA.NET, its affiliates, partners, third parties, and sponsors may offer various activities, products and services in which you are under no obligation to participate but if you do we may need to ask for certain personally identifiable or demographic information about you or someone you know.

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences.

Consequently, collected information is tied to the users personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to tailor a user’s visit to our Web site, and to direct pertinent marketing promotions to them. Your profile is not shared together with your personally identifiable information with any third parties.

In these and in certain other cases described below we collect and use this information in order to provide ongoing service to you or others (for example, you may choose to sign up for free email, in which case you will need to provide that person's name and address, etc); to protect against error and fraud and ensure security of your information (for example by asking you for some personal information to verify your identity or the identity of persons in photos you submit); to communicate with you (for example if you have won one of our contests); to create personalized content and advertising (for example, if you choose to voluntarily provide information about your interests, likes and dislikes); to facilitate your participation in on-line forums and interactivities; to understand your needs and to develop and improve the products and services we and our affiliates, partners and sponsors offer on our Web site; to up-date the personal information you have already provided, and to comply with laws (for example to respond to a court order or subpoena).

The types of personally identifiable information that we may collect include but is not limited to: first name, last name, email address, alternative email address, password, secret question, answer to secret question, mobile number, mobile carrier, address, city, postal code, province, country, gender, date of birth, whether you are a student or not, which school you attend, credit card information and information about your interests, hobbies, preferences and your opinions, as well as other information that may or may not be application specific.

It will be clearly marked on any form where information is asked for, which fields are mandatory and which are optional in order to access the service or tool.

If you choose to give personal information about yourself or others, you can rely on the following policy.Your personally identifiable information will not be used by CENTRALASIA.NET for purposes unrelated to those described in this Policy, or elsewhere on this Web Site, without your consent.By collecting any of the above information we may develop profile information which we will use to create personalized content, services and advertising on the CENTRALASIA.NET Web Site. In addition, CENTRALASIA.NET may use your profile in the aggregate, on a no name basis, to analyze site usage, generate aggregate reports and market research.

SECURITY

CENTRALASIA.NET has taken reasonable measures (physical, organizational and technological) to safeguard against unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information (for example to ensure that e-mail communications are only accessible by the designated recipients) and to safely store your personally identifiable information.When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order form will ask users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when users are just ‘surfing’.

While we may use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, someone who is awarding a contest prize) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices and sign a security and privacy practices agreement in order to work here. Each time this agreement is updated our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our users’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment, in a locked facility.

Despite the precautions we take, the Internet is not a secure medium and the privacy of your communications and personal information can never be guaranteed. CENTRALASIA.NET has no control over the practices of third parties (e.g. websites to which the CENTRALASIA.NET Site is linked, third-party sponsors; third parties who misrepresent themselves as you or someone else).

The user is entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of User's password and account, and for any and all activities which occur under User's account or password. User agrees to immediately notify CENTRALASIA.NET of any unauthorized use of User's account, password, or any other breach of security known to User.

User may change his/her password or profile by following instructions on the system.

If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an email to customerservice@CENTRALASIA.NET

COOKIES

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by CENTRALASIA.NET and other domains used on this site for public email subscription only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. We use session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.

We may use cookies on some of the CENTRALASIA.NET pages in order to serve you better when you return to the CENTRALASIA.NET Web Site (for example to recognize you when you return to the Web Site, to save your password and to offer you products and services we believe will be of interest to you). You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a "cookie" giving you the opportunity to accept or to refuse it. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.

We keep track of the domains from which you visit us. We analyze these data for trends and statistics. In return it enables us to provide you with useful information to provide you with ongoing services.

LOG FILES

Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

HYPERLINKS

Although this Web Site may be linked to other sites, CENTRALASIA.NET is not, directly or indirectly, implying any approval, association, sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation with the linked site, unless specifically stated therein.

By entering this Web Site you acknowledge and agree that CENTRALASIA.NET has not reviewed all sites linked to this Web Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other site linked to this Web Site. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own discretion and risk.

REVISION OF POLICY

CENTRALASIA.NET reserves the right to revise these contractual terms and conditions concerning your future use of this Web Site at any time and for any reason, without notice or obligation, to you.

If we decide to change this policy, and determine that it is appropriate, we will post those changes to this statement so our users will be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.