Dot Yam and Associates

Disclaimer and Privacy Policy

Version date: 2/September/2011

At Dot Yam and Associates, we constantly strive to develop innovative services to better serve you our customer. We understand that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our products and services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Disclaimer & Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use our products and services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.

Data collection

We may collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.

Some of our services may require you to register for an account. We ask you for some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we may request credit card or other payment information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.

When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.

Cookies

Upon your first visit a cookie may be sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We can use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us. We do this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features or services may not function properly without cookies.

Information sharing

We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances:

We have your consent.
We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Disclaimer & Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Dot Yam and Associates, its customers or the public.

If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated companies, except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy or with your consent.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.

We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.

Updating your information

We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for many of our services. For more information, please see the help pages for each service.

Links

External links displayed on this web site are sites developed by people over whom Dot Yam and Associates exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.

Disclaimer

Except as provided for by the law: a) all web content on this web site is provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, b) Dot Yam and Associates and its suppliers expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, c) Dot Yam and Associates does not warrant that the functions contained in any web content or your access to this web site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any defects will be corrected or that the web site or the server which stores and transmits web content to you are free of viruses or any other harmful components, d) Dot Yam and Associates does not warrant or make any representation regarding your access to, or the results of your access to, this web site (including any related or linked websites) or any web content in terms of correctness, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, reliability or otherwise, and e) you (and not Dot Yam and Associates) assume the entire cost of any necessary verification, maintenance, repair and/or correction of any relevant web content.

Under no circumstances (including but not limited to any act or omission on the part of Dot Yam and Associates) will Dot Yam and Associates or its affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special and/or consequential damages or loss of profits whatsoever which result from any use or access of, or any inability to use or access, this web site or any web content. You expressly acknowledge and agree that Dot Yam and Associates does not exert control over users of their web site (including individuals referred to on the web site as guests and experts) and is not liable either for their opinions or their behaviour, including any information and/or advice and any defamatory statements or offensive conduct.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Dot Yam and Associates liability for breach of any implied warranty or condition which cannot be excluded is limited at the option of Dot Yam and Associates to the following:

in the case of services supplied or offered by Dot Yam and Associates, (a) the supply of the services again, or (b) the payment of the cost of having services supplied again; and
in the case of goods supplied or offered by Dot Yam and Associates, (c) the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods, (d) the repair of such goods, (e) the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or acquiring equivalent goods, or (f) the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired.

Intellectual property and restrictions on use of this web content

All information, text, material, graphics, software and advertisements on this web site are Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 to Dot Yam and Associates, its suppliers and/or licensors unless expressly indicated otherwise. The web content is protected by relevant copyright and trademark laws. You must not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, frame, upload to a third party, post, transmit or distribute this web content in any way except as expressly provided for or expressly authorised in writing by Dot Yam and Associates or its affiliates. Strictly on the condition that you keep all web content intact and in the same form as presented (including without limitation all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices and all advertisements), you may: a) using an industry-standard Web browser, download and view the web content for your personal, non-commercial use, or b) if you are an Internet service and/or access provider, supply the web content to your subscriber. You must not use this web site in any manner or for any purpose which is unlawful or in any manner which violates any right of Dot Yam and Associates or an affiliate.

All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Changes to this Policy

Please note this Disclaimer & Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time.

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