last updated on 01-26-2007

paintspace.net, a product of paintsquare, inc., is committed to protecting your privacy. this privacy statement applies to data collection and usage on paintspace.net sites and services. please read the privacy statement below.

paintspace.net is an industry-focused web site, intended to be a online social network for those involved with any and all phases of coatings work. personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this privacy statement.

other sites linked to or from this web site have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the links; this privacy statement does not apply to linked and referenced sites.

collection of your personal information

paintspace.net collects basic identity information, such as name, company, and personal contact information including e-mail address, home or work address, telephone number and fax number. paintspace.net may also collect demographic information, such as state, zip code, country, company type, preferences, interests and favorites. information collected by paintspace.net may be combined with information obtained from paintsquare.com, jpcl and/or jac publications.

for paid services such as premium profile membership, additional personal information is collected, including credit card and billing address, in order to perform the recurring billing cycle. this information is held in a separate secure server and is not accessble to any other user nor the paintspace.net administration.

paintspace.net tracks of the pages each user visits within the site in order to determine what pages and services are the most popular.

paintspace.net also collects certain information about each user’s computer hardware and software. this information may include: ip address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses.

certain paintspace.net services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. if you register for or use such services, both paintspace.net and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.

use of your personal information

paintspace.net collects and uses personal contact information to operate paintspace.net and deliver requested services. these services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information paintspace.net has collected. paintspace.net does not collect sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations.

paintsquare also uses personal contact information to inform users of other products or services available from paintspace.net, paintsquare, jpcl, jac and its affiliates. paintspace.net may also contact users via surveys to conduct research of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

paintspace.net does not provide its e-mail lists to third parties. paintspace.net may, from time to time, contact users on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering of potential interest. in those cases, personal contact information (e-mail, address, telephone number, fax number) is not transferred to the third party. paintspace.net does make mailing lists of registered members and users available for purchase or rent by third parties, including name, company, address, phone number, and fax number. in these cases, the lists may not be published nor resold by the third parties.

paintspace.net occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. paintspace.net only provides these companies the personal information needed to deliver the service. they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

paintspace.net may access and/or disclose your complete 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 paintsquare, inc. or the paintspace.net site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of southside holdings, including its paintspace.net web site; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of paintspace.net 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 paintsquare 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.

as part of this agreement, you are also providing paintspace.net with the authorization to fax you information regarding its products and services if you choose to provide us with your fax number.

control of your personal information

paintspace.net offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. users may choose not to receive marketing material from paintspace.net or on behalf of external third party business partners. users may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from paintspace.net by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. the instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

users may subscribe and unsubscribe to paintsquare newsletters. each paintsquare newsletter you receive will have instructions on how to unsubscribe prominently mentioned in it. paintsquare operates in compliance with the can-spam act of 2003.

security of your personal information

paintspace.net is committed to protecting the security of personal information. paintspace.net uses a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. for example, paintspace.net stores the personal information users provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. when transmitting highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the internet, such information is protected through the use of encryption, such as the secure socket layer (ssl) protocol.

use of cookies

paintspace.net uses "cookies" to help users personalize the online experience. a cookie is a text file that is placed on a 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 each user, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie.

users have the ability to accept or decline cookies. most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but users can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if so preferred. if users choose to decline cookies, they may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the paintspace.net services.

use of web beacons

paintspace.net web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs- that allow paintspace.net to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. paintspace.net may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or paintsquare newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon.

web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. paintspace.net web pages may also contain web beacons placed there by third parties in order to compile aggregated statistics and to help determine the effectiveness of joint promotional or advertising campaigns. paintspace.net prohibits web beacons from being used to access personal information.

use of third party ad networks

paintspace.net may allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on paintspace.net web pages. some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on users’ computers. doing this allows the ad network to recognize a computer each time an online advertisement is displayed. in this way, ad networks may compile information about where users saw advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. this information allows an ad network to deliver targeted messages, determine which ads are clicked on, and deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to users. paintspace.net does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

enforcement of this privacy statement

if you have any questions regarding this statement, you should first contact paintspace.net via e-mail or via the feedback form.

changes to this statement

paintspace.net may occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect company and customers feedback. when paintspace.net posts changes to this statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the privacy statement link on the front page of paintspace.net. if there are material changes to this statement or in how paintspace.net will use personal information, paintspace.net will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. paintspace.net encourages users to periodically review this statement to be informed of how paintspace.net is protecting information.

contact information

paintspace.net welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. if it is believed that paintspace.net has not adhered to this statement, please contact paintsquare by telephone, e-mail, or postal mail.

paintsquare, inc.
2100 wharton street, suite 310
pittsburgh, pa 15203-1951, usa
1-412-431-8300

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