Bits & Bytes, Inc. values your trust. We also value and respect your privacy. To demonstrate and monitor our commitment to your privacy, Bits & Bytes, Inc. is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. As a licensee of TRUSTe, Bits & Bytes, Inc. has disclosed our information practices to TRUSTe and agreed to have TRUSTe review our privacy practices to ensure that they comply with TRUSTe's standards.

TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to enable individuals and organizations to establish trusting relationships based on respect for personal identity and information by promoting the use of fair information practices.

The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this web site and does not cover information that may be collected through software downloaded from the site.

The Following Privacy Notice Discloses:

Inquiries and Dispute Resolution. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, contact Bits & Bytes, Inc. by email at privacy@bitsbytescomputer.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry, or if your inquiry is not satisfactorily addressed, contact TRUSTe through the TRUSTe Watchdog Dispute Resolution Process (http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php). TRUSTe will serve as a liaison with Bits & Bytes, Inc. to resolve your concerns.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions. If you choose to visit bitsbytescomputer.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Privacy Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Montana. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may email periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. Should we need to obtain your consent, we will contact you by email.

Restrictions and Limitations. Bits & Bytes, Inc. will collect and use information through our web site only in the ways disclosed in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice applies solely to information collected on the Bits & Bytes, Inc. web site bitsbytescomputer.com (the "web site," "the web site," "our site"). This policy does not apply to the practices of Bits & Bytes, Inc. that Bits & Bytes, Inc. does not own or control, or to individuals that Bits & Bytes, Inc. does not employ or manage. By visiting the web site, you acknowledge that you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Disclaimer Regarding Children Under 13. The Bits & Bytes, Inc. web site is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. Although we market products for children, we are not marketing to children. We do not sell products for purchase by children; we sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use bitsbytescomputer.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

We gather four types of information about you.

1. Information You Give Us. We collect and store the information you enter on our site and that you provide in other ways. We use this information for various purposes, for example, to respond to your requests and suggestions, to customize your future shopping experiences, to improve our site, and to communicate with you. We collect and store your login information, name, mailing address, shipping address and information, email address, phone number, fax number, website URL, and password. Storing this information allows us to supply your password, if you lose or forget it, once you have properly identified yourself. We temporarily store your credit card information. After processing your credit card, we delete your credit card number. You can choose not to provide certain information, but this may hinder your ability to enjoy various features of our site.

2. Automatic Information. Whenever you interact with our site, we collect and store several types of information in a "cookie," a small text file that our web site writes to your computer's hard drive by means of your browser. Cookies enable our web site to perform several essential functions. For example, cookies enable our web site to recognize your browser, to track usage patterns, to deliver customized content, and to identify the items you have added to your shopping cart. If you accidentally leave our site or experience computer difficulties, the cookie will cause the items you have added to your cart to be listed the next time you log on to our site, thus ensuring that your cart never loses an item. A cookie stores useful information; it is not able to read information from your hard drive.

We also collect and store your user ID, a unique number that is not personally identifiable to you; the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; information about your computer system, such as browser type and version, platform and operating system; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) click stream to, through, and from our site, including date and time; a cookie number; and a list of the products you viewed or searched for. This information is tied to your personal information.

During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Should you wish to disable cookies or have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, consult the Help feature on your browser's toolbar. To take full advantage of some of our site's best features, we recommend that you leave cookies enabled on your browser.

3. Email Communications. We often receive a confirmation, by means of a cookie, when you open our emails. This helps us ensure that our emails address your interests. Additionally, to avoid sending duplicate emails we compare our customer list with lists received from other companies. If you do not wish to receive email or other mail from us, please go to the Bits & Bytes, Inc. Your Account, login, select "Modify Your Profile," and modify your preferences.

If you use our Email-A-Friend feature to send product information from our site to a friend, we capture the email address and follow up with a one-time email of our own that invites your friend to visit our site. Bits & Bytes, Inc. does not store this information. We use the information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

4. Information from Other Sources. From time to time, we may receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. This information may include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links from Google); and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud.

We use the information we collect about you to improve the content of our Web Site, to improve your shopping experience, to notify registered users about our products, services, sales, and special offers, and to share information about new developments in our company. We do not share personally identifiable information that we collect and store with other organizations for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

1. Service Providers. The only parties who see your personal information are those parties responsible for performing various business functions on behalf of Bits & Bytes, Inc. For example, we employ other companies and individuals to take orders, fulfill orders, deliver packages, send postal mail and email, remove repetitive information from customer lists, analyze data, provide marketing assistance, provide search results and links (including paid listings and links), process credit card payments, provide customer service, and assist with web-site management. These parties have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but they may not use this information for other purposes.

2. Third-Party Offers. Occasionally we may send offers to selected groups of our customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give those businesses your name and address. If you do not wish to receive such offers, please go to the Bits & Bytes, Inc. Your Account, login, select "Modify Your Profile," and modify your preferences.

3. Business Transfers. As we develop our business, we may sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information is considered an asset that is transferred with the business. In any such transaction, Bits & Bytes, Inc. will honor the terms of preexisting Privacy Notices (unless, of course, customers consent otherwise). Additionally, in the unlikely event that Bits & Bytes, Inc. is acquired in whole or in part by another company, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.

4. Protection of Bits & Bytes, Inc. and Other Companies. We release account and other personal information in the following cases: (1) When we believe this is necessary to comply with the law; (2) To enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; (3) To protect the rights, property, or safety of Bits & Bytes, Inc., our customers, or others by exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

5. If You Consent. Other than providing personal information about you as specified above, we will notify you when such information might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

6. Links. Bits & Bytes, Inc. offers links to other web sites. When you click on a link to another web site, you are leaving the Bits & Bytes, Inc. site and entering a site that may be subject to different privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies that govern the web sites to which you may link from our site. The policies in this Privacy Notice pertain only to the Bits & Bytes, Inc. site.

As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of various features of our web site.

You can add or update certain information on pages such as those listed in the "What Information Can You Access?" section below. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

If you do not want to receive email or other mail from us, please go the Bits & Bytes, Inc. Your Account, login, select "Modify Your Profile," and adjust your preferences.. Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy Notice, which govern your use of bitsbytescomputer.com, will be sent to all our customers as ?service-related? communications.

Bits & Bytes, Inc. uses state-of-the-art security technology to ensure that your personal information stays private. Our site is hosted by a premier web hosting provider with extensive security controls. When transmitting your personal information, we employ 256-bit Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL) from GeoTrust (www.geotrust.com), a recognized leader in encryption technology.

We provide access to a broad range of information about your account through the Bits & Bytes, Inc. Your Account. The Your Account allows you to edit your user profile, including your name, address, phone, fax, email address, and password, as well as to specify if you wish to receive our newsletter and notifications about products and special offers. Your Account also allows you to view current and past orders, including up-to-date information about recent orders, as well as to contact Priority Support.

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