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Privacy Policy

This policy is effective as of September 23, 2007.

Almatas, LLC. is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of Almatas, LLC. . You must consent to this privacy statement as part of using and/or joining our web sites. In addition, by using this site, you confirm your continuing acceptance of the data collection and use practices described in this statement as they are amended from time to time.

Collection of Your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. The personal information we collect may include your name, e-mail address, city, country, spoken languages, and education.

Any activity performed by you within the web site may be recorded. When recording user behaviors, we may record both your behavior as well as the content related to your activities. For example, we might record the activities you and others take related to browsing and sharing information you have loaded, as well as the actual content of all such information. In most cases, the research tools used to record or collect responses or behaviors are set up not to collect your name, address, e-mail address, machine name, or any other form of personally identifiable information, but we cannot guarantee this will be true in all cases. Further, it is possible that such information may be captured in such places as memory or as part of the data collected from open files or messages.

Use of Your Personal Information
We use your personal information to operate the site for research and administrative purposes, to make the site easier for you to use by not having to enter information more than once, and to provide the services that you request or authorize (such as sending you your site password, notifying you of any winning sweepstakes entries or assisting you in canceling your participation).

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Almatas, LLC. may disclose any of your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Almatas, LLC. or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Almatas, LLC. and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Almatas, LLC. employees or agents, users of Almatas, LLC. products and services, or members of the public.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Almatas, LLC. or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Almatas, LLC. abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Control of Your Personal Information
Except as otherwise described in this statement, the personal information you provide will not be shared outside of Almatas, LLC. and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission.

Security of Your Personal Information
Almatas, LLC. is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Cookies
We use cookies on this Site to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the site's features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or other web sites you visit.

Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.