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(effective date: 07.05.2004)
NationalSummary.com values the relationship we have with our customers and are committed to responsible information handling practices. The following Privacy Policy describes the information and privacy practices of this web site. By visiting NationalSummary.com, you consent to the information practices described in this policy. To protect your privacy, NationalSummary.com has created the guidelines outlined in this policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to other web sites that may be accessible to or from NationalSummary.com. Our web site contain links to other web sites operated by third parties, including but not limited to third party sites that display the NationalSummary.com name. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those other sites to learn how they collect and use information about you.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
Understanding that Internet technologies, industry trends, and applicable laws are rapidly evolving, NationalSummary.com reserves the rights to change, modify, or amend the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued use of this web site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.

If there are changes or additions to this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here or in other formats we deem acceptable, so that you will always know what information we collect online or offline, how we use it, and what choices you have. If we change our information practices or this Privacy Policy in such a way that your personal information may be used or shared in a different manner, we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of having your information used or shared in that new manner.

We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Privacy Policy so that you are up to date on our most cur-rent policies and practices.

COLLECTING INFORMATION
We believe in protecting your privacy and will not share personal information with third parties outside of NationalSummary.com except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We also may collect certain technical information from your computer when you visit NationalSummary.com. This technical information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your computer's operating system, browser type, and the ad-dress of a referring web site, if any. Except in the case of IP addresses, this technical information cannot be used to identify you personally. Further, we do not normally use IP addresses to identify anyone. We may do so, however, to identify abuse to our web site or other unauthorized activities.

We believe we can enhance your experience on our web site with such non-personally identifiable information you share with us. We use non-personally identifiable information to improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze web site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, and to personalize our content, layout, and ser-vices.

Personally Identifiable Information
Personally identifiable information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, credit card information and password ("Personally Identifiable Information"). We may collect Personally Identifiable Information from you when you make a purchase from one of our members' shops, voluntarily provide it when you use this web site, or provide it when you communicate with us.

OTHER INFORMATION
From time to time NationalSummary.com may conduct surveys, contests, polls, or provide a method to express an opinion. In addition, this web site may offer ways to subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "product review, etc"), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us.

SHARING INFORMATION
NationalSummary.com does not sell, exchange, or rent individual personal information to third parties.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We 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 experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage and may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to potential advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies, and for other lawful purposes.

We may share information with others who help us analyze sales data, maintain our records, and provide other services for NationalSummary.com. For this purpose, we may also provide these third party service providers anonymous information about your site navigation. These companies may also conduct customer satisfaction surveys and manage other customer services and benefits for us. These third parties are not authorized to use your information for any reason other than to perform their contractually assigned functions.

NationalSummary.com may use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its web pages.

These companies utilize certain technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and to collect anonymous information about your visit to our site(s), including information about the banner ads they display, and any cookie they place on your computer and your IP address. Also, these third party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these third party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

Personally Identifiable Information
We generally will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties without your permission. If you make a purchase from this web site, we will use the Personally Identifiable Information you provide for shipping and billing purposes and for internal record keeping. We may also use the Personally Identifiable Information you provide to administer transactions from purchases, include you on mailing lists, and advertise and promote our services although you will always have the option to opt out of such marketing.

In addition, we may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information when we believe in good faith that it is required by any applicable law or legal process, or if we believe we need to disclose it to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of other third parties.

CO-BRANDING
NationalSummary.com may operate as part of a larger group of web sites and may carry co-branded pages. In addition, other web sites may use the NationalSummary.com name. Since NationalSummary.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies, if any, of such third parties, and NationalSummary.com shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of your private information by such parties. Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions and review those parties' privacy policies before you disclose your personal information to others.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTIES
NationalSummary.com contains links to other web sites whose information practices are different than ours. Visitors should consult the other web sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties. NationalSummary.com shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site, links, or linking program at any time. NationalSummary.com does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to which NationalSummary.com links to. If you decide to access any third party sites, you do so entirely at your own risk.

When you provide information at one of those sites, you are subject to that site’s privacy policy. We encourage you to read that web site’s policy before submitting any information if you have concerns about how information may be collected or used.

Although we choose our business partners and advertisers carefully, NationalSummary.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that we link to or for the privacy practices of third party or so-called national Internet advertising companies.

LINKS FROM THIRD PARTIES
NationalSummary.com may be linked from other web sites whose information practices are 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. NationalSummary.com shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site, links, or linking program at any time. NationalSummary.com does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to which NationalSummary.com is linked from. If you decide to access any of the third party sites, you do so entirely at your own risk.

When you provide information at one of those sites, you are subject to that site’s privacy policy. We encourage you to read that web site’s policy before submitting any information if you have concerns about how information may be collected or used.

Although we choose our business partners and advertisers carefully, NationalSummary.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that we are linked from or for the privacy practices of third party or so-called national Internet advertising companies.

AFFILIATE PROGRAMS
We operate an affiliate program that allows other web sites to benefit by linking customers to our site. The affiliates are provided only certain information relating to eligible transactions, and at no time have access to our customers’ information. We may use third parties to administer these programs. Such third parties may have access to information, but will be contractually prohibited from using the information for any purpose other than program administration.

DISCLOSING INFORMATION
From time to time, we may be required to provide personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.

We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We may release certain personal information when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves. We may also release personal information in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event.

SECURITY
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. We also protect our data-bases with various physical, technical and procedural measures and we restrict access to your information by unauthorized persons. Our information systems are maintained behind a software firewall to isolate them from access by other networks connected to the Internet. We also advise anyone affiliated with NationalSummary.com about their responsibility to protect customer data and we provide them with appropriate guidelines for adhering to our company’s business ethics standards and confidentiality policies.

Although we will use reasonable efforts to safeguard the privacy of your information, transmissions on the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure. Accordingly, we assume no responsibility or liability for disclosure of any of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access or other causes beyond our reasonable control.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
NationalSummary.com is a general audience web site and cares about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practicable.

If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian to assist you in using NationalSummary.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy for this site or its implementation, e-mail our Privacy Manager at PrivacyManager at NationalSummary.com.

In addition, please contact our Privacy Manager to report any known or suspected privacy or security breaches or to submit privacy-related questions or complaints.

You may also request a written response to your concerns, which will be made no later than thirty (30) days after you contact us.

Please remember to include your postal address, e-mail address and phone number with your correspondence.

Privacy Manager
National Summary
13423 Blanco Road, #169
San Antonio, TX 78216

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