Privacy Statement for CDE
Last Modified Date: June 11, 2007
Certified Luxury Exchange, Inc. d/b/a Certified Diamond Exchange ("CDE"
or "we") has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information
gathering, use and dissemination practices for this website. Please take a
moment to review the terms of this privacy statement. By using this
website, you agree to accept the terms of our privacy statement. If you do
not agree to the terms of our privacy statement, please do not use this
website. Unless stated otherwise, this privacy statement applies only to
information collected on this website and with respect to the services
offered on this website and does not apply to information that we may
collect by other means.
Personal Information
Information We May Collect
In order to access certain information, products, services or features
contained on this website, you are required to provide personal
information (which information is to be provided in connection with your
completion of the Application to Subscribe to the Certified Diamond
Exchange Website) such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address and
phone number. In addition, we will collect certain personal information if
you choose to join one of our message boards (if any) or send questions or
comments to us via e-mail. We will also reference information you have
provided to Jewelers Board of Trade ("JBT") to verify that you are
recognized by JBT as a dealer in the trade.
If you choose to post messages in our message boards or other message
areas (if any) or leave feedback for other users, we may collect such
information about you as you choose to disclose in such forums. Likewise,
if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your
activities or postings on our message boards (if any) or other areas of
this website, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
CDE may keep a log of inactive account information for an indefinite
period of time, in CDE's sole discretion.
How We May Use Your Information
We will retain and use your personal information for several purposes.
For example, we will use your personal information in connection with the
performance of our services that you subscribe to on this website
(including any customary follow-up or confirmation communications
regarding such transactions and the provision of your contact information
to prospective purchasers and/or sellers of products offered for sale on
this website) and/or responding to your questions and comments. We may
also use personal information to ensure compliance with our policies and
applicable law.
In addition, we may send you periodic communications by e-mail or
regular mail if you do not opt out of receiving them. For example, we may
provide you with special offers or information on our products or
services. If you wish to opt out of receiving communications from us at
any time, we give users the following options for doing so:
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Where available, you may indicate that you do not want to receive
such mailings at the time you provide your information to us on this
website;
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You may opt-out at any time by sending an e-mail to
unsubscribe@cdediamonds.com
with "unsubscribe" in the subject line; or
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You may opt-out by clicking on the unsubscribe link in our e-mail
newsletters or other e-mail communications.
Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing and promotional
offers from us by e-mail, we may still contact you by e-mail to provide
the services you request, to respond to your inquiries and/or with other
transactional correspondence.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Please note that we will not share your personal information (whether
collected online or offline) with any third parties for their direct
marketing purposes.
We may sometimes use other businesses to perform certain services for
us, such as processing orders and delivering our products, sending postal
mail and providing marketing assistance and data analysis. We may provide
personal information to those businesses when that information is
necessary for them to complete a requested transaction or otherwise
perform their duties.
As CDE develops, we (or one of our affiliated entities) may buy other
businesses or their assets or sell our business or assets. Customer
information is generally one of the business assets involved in such
transactions. Thus, in the event that CDE or one of its affiliated
entities, or all of their respective assets, are acquired, customer
information would be one of the transferred assets.
Finally, we reserve the right to disclose visitor information in
special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this
information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors,
or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. This includes our
right to exchange information with other organizations in order to protect
against fraud and to reduce credit risk. We also reserve the right to
disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it.
Message Boards and Other Public
Forums
This website may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news
groups available to its users. Please keep in mind that whenever you give
out personal information on a message board or other 'public' forum, that
information can be collected and used by people you don't know. If you
choose to voluntarily disclose information on a message board, chat room
or other public forum on this website, this privacy statement will not
cover such disclosure of information. We urge you to use caution when
disclosing any personal information on these venues.
Links
to Other Websites
The message boards and other areas of this website may contain links to
other websites that take you outside this website. These outside websites
are beyond our control. They may send their own cookies to visitors,
collect data or solicit personal information. The privacy policies of
these other websites may be significantly different from our privacy
statement. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of
these other websites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your
personal information collected there.
Aggregate
Information
From time to time, we may collect general, non-personal, statistical
information about the use of this website, such as how many visitors visit
a specific page on this website, how long they stay on that page, and
which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on. We collect this information
through the use of technologies such as "cookies" and "IP addresses",
which are discussed in greater detail below. We collect this information
in order to determine which areas of this website are most popular and to
enhance this website for visitors. We may also group this and other
information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of
this website to our existing or potential business partners, sponsors,
advertisers or other third parties, or in response to a government
request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no
way personally identify you or any other visitors to this website.
IP Addresses and Cookies
In the course of using our website, we automatically track certain
information about you. This information includes the URL that you just
came from (whether this URL is on our website or not), which URL you next
go to (whether this URL is on our website or not), what browser you are
using, and your IP address (which is a number that's automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web). Many websites
automatically collect this information. We use your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your IP
address is used to help identify you. We reserve the right to use IP
addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is necessary to enforce
compliance with this website's policies or to protect our service or
customers, this website, or others.
Like most websites, our website does use cookies. Cookies are pieces of
information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for
record-keeping purposes. In some cases the cookies are linked to your
personally identifiable information. Cookies are used to simplify
functions on our website for our users. You can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
please be aware that some features of this website may not function
properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies. You may occasionally get
cookies from our advertisers or other third parties with links on this
website. We do not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies
sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet
Children Under 13
We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of
13 on this website and this website is not directed to children. If you
are under the age of 13, please do not provide any personal information to
us.
Changes to These Terms
The terms of this privacy statement may change from time to time. We
will notify you of any material changes to this privacy statement by
posting a notice on the homepage of this website, for a reasonable period
of time after such changes are made, that this privacy statement has been
updated, and by changing the "Last Modified" date at the top of this
privacy statement. We encourage you to check this page periodically for
any changes. Your continued use of this website following the posting of
changes to these terms will mean you accept those
changes.
Security
This website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. If you register for
certain of our services, you will be required to create an online account
and choose a username and password that will protect your online account
information. Access to your online account requires your password. We
recommend that you do not disclose your username or password to any other
person. All databases are secured behind a firewall. Unfortunately, no
data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
As a result, while CDE strives to protect your personal information and
privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information
you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the
theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal
information.
Reviewing and Updating Your Information
You may review and update your account information by logging in to
your account with your username and password at
http://www.cdediamonds.com/
, if applicable, or by contacting us directly at the address set forth
below. If we develop message boards and if you join our message boards,
you may review and update your message board profile information by first
logging in to our message boards at
http://www.cdediamonds.com/
Questions
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can contact:
Certified Diamond Exchange
580 Fifth Avenue, Suite LL-05
New York, NY 10036
T: 212-869-8985
F: 212-869-2315
admin@cdediamonds.com
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