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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our website of Sinospecial.com. Our company respects your privacy and wants to protect your personal information. To learn more, please read this Privacy Policy below carefully.
The Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and (under certain conditions) disclose your personal information. Moreover, it also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal information. Thirdly, this policy explains your options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. By accessing our website, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy applies only to Sinospecial.com. It does not necessarily apply to our offline collection of your personal information. Please take a look below for details. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any non-Sinospecial.com site to which this website links or that links to our website.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE.
1.Information Collection. We collect information from you in several different ways on this website. Our common goal in collecting your personal information is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and customized experience. For instance, we can use your personal information to:
· help make our website easier for you to use.
· help you find information, products, and services more quickly.
· help us create content on our website that is most relevant to you.
· alert you to new information, products, and services that we offer.
(a) Registration and Ordering. Before using certain parts of this Website or ordering products, you must complete an online registration form. During registration, you will be prompted to provide to us certain personal information, including your name, shipping and billing address(es), phone number, email address and credit card number. Furthermore, we may also ask you for your country of residence and/or your organization's country of operation, so we can comply with applicable laws and regulations, and for your gender. These kinds of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfill your orders, to communicate with you about your order, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your order, we will use the personal information to contact you.
(b) Email Addresses. Several locations of our website permit you to enter your email address for purposes: to register for a free promotion letter; to request us to notify you when we receive a new brand, new product style; to sign up for our email. Your participation in a contest is completely voluntary, so you have a choice whether to participate in and disclose information to us or not. We use the information to notify contest winners and to award prizes. We may post on our Website the names and cities of contest winners.
(c) Cookies and Other Technologies. Like many websites, SINOSPECIAL.COM employs cookies and web beacons to speed your navigation of the website, recognize you and your access privileges, and track your website usage.
(i) Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from web websites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you will not be able to access or use portions of this website. We have to use cookies to enable you to select products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity and purchase.
(ii) Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web page on this Website has been viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any electronic image on this Website, such as an ad banner, can function as a web beacon.
(iii) We may use content or ads from third-party advertising companies that may use cookies and web beacons to measure web page visits or amount of products purchased. Any information these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal information we collect.
(d) Log Files. As is true of most web websites, the website server automatically recognizes the Internet URL from which you access this website. We may also log your Internet protocol (IP) address, Internet service provider, and date/time stamp for system administration, order verification, internal marketing, and system troubleshooting purposes. (An IP address may indicate the location of your computer on the Internet.)
(e) Age. Our company respects children's privacy. We do not intentionally collect personal information from kids under age 13. Elsewhere on this Website, you have represented and warranted that you are either 18 years of age or using the website with the supervision of a parent or guardian. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information to us, and please request a parent or guardian to assist you.
(f) Product Reviews. You may choose to submit a product review. If you post a review, we will ask for your email address and geographic location. If you submit a review, your geographic location will be visible to other users (your email address will be kept private). Additionally, any personally identifiable information that you submit as part of the review can be read or used by other visitors to the website. We are not responsible for any personally identifiable information that you choose to submit as part of your review. We believe you can post a helpful review without disclosing any personal information.

2. Information Use and Disclosure.
(a) Internal Use. We use your personal information to process your order and provide you with customer service. We may internally use your personal information to improve our Website's content and layout, to improve our outreach and for our own marketing efforts, including marketing our services and products to you, and to determine general marketplace information about visitors to this website.
(b) Communications: Not only do we use your personal information to communicate with you about our website and your orders and deliveries, but also we may send you a confirmation email when you register with us. We may send you a service-related announcement on the rare occasions when it is necessary (for instance, if we must temporarily suspend our service for maintenance.) Also, you may submit your email address for reasons such as to request us to notify you when we receive a new brand, new product style, or product; to sign up for our email newsletter and special offers; If you submit your email address, we use it to deliver the information to you. We always permit you to unsubscribe or opt out of future emails (see opt out section, below, for more details). Because we have to communicate with you about orders, you cannot opt out of receiving these emails.
(c) External Use. We want to provide you with excellent service and to offer you a great selection - we primarily sell merchandise, not information. We do not sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal information or financial information to anyone, except that:
(i) As do most catalogue and Internet wholesalers, sometimes we use others to perform specific functions on our behalf. When we disclose information to these service providers, we disclose information to help them to perform their service. For example, in order to deliver products to you, we must share some information. We partner with third parties (such as DHL, and UPS) to ship products, to ensure delivery, and so that we can obtain feedback, improve the quality of our service, and measure and improve the quality of the service of the third party. In the example of shippers, we provide them some personally identifiable information such as your name, shipping address, email, and phone number.
(ii) Similarly, to help you buy products and provide customer service to you, we must provide your credit card number to financial-services corporations such as credit-card processors and issuers. When we submit your credit card number for authorization, we use state-of-the-art data encryption to protect your information. (More on this below in the Data Security section.)
(iii) We may be required to disclose such information in response to requests from law-enforcement officials conducting investigations; subpoenas; a court order; or otherwise if we are required to disclose such information by law. We also will release personal information where disclosure is necessary to protect our legal rights, enforce our Terms of Service or other agreements, or to protect ourselves or others. For instance, we may share information to reduce the risk of fraud or if someone uses or attempts to use our Website for illegal reasons or to commit fraud.
(iv) We will not sell (or trade or rent) personally identifiable information to other companies as part of our regular course of business. However, it's possible that we might acquire or merge with or be acquired by another company or that we might dispose of some or all of our assets. If that happens, your personal information may be disclosed to another company, but that disclosure will be subject to the Privacy Policy in effect.
(v) We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a particular web page, or the size of an order placed on a certain date) with third parties such as advertising partners. This information does not directly personally identify you or any user.

DATA SECURITY
Sinospecial.com incorporates physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for all financial transactions through this Website. We use SSL encryption to protect your personal information online, and we also take several steps to protect your personal information in our facilities. Access to your personal information is restricted. Only employees who need access to your personal information to perform a specific job are granted access to your personal information. Finally, we rely on third-party service providers for the physical security of some of our computer hardware. We believe that their security procedures are adequate. For instance, when you visiting Sinospecial.com, you access servers that are kept in a secure physical environment, behind a locked cage and an electronic firewall While we use industry-standard precautions to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee complete security. As the matter of fact, 100% complete security does not presently exist anywhere online or offline.

OPT OUT/CORRECTIONS
Upon your request, we would :
(a) correct or update your personal information;
(b) stop sending emails to your email address;
(c) disable your account to prevent any future purchases through that account.
You can make these requests at the customer information section, or by telephoning, or emailing your request to SINOSPECIAL.COM Customer Support Department service@sinospecial.com. Please do not email your credit-card number or other sensitive information.

OFFLINE COLLECTION, USE & DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
As you may expect from Sinospecial.com, the majority of information that we collect is obtained through our Website, and this Privacy Policy applies only to that online collection of personal information. We also collect information offline, where we also try to protect the privacy of you personal information. One example involves someone calling us to place an order or to ask questions. When someone calls, we will ask only for the personal information we need in order to place the order or to answer the question. There are other ways we could learn personal information offline. For instance, we suppose someone could send us a letter including some return address information. And this Policy doesn't discuss or try to predict all of those methods or uses. As we mentioned before, we primarily sell merchandise, not information, and we will try to treat offline collection, uses, and disclosures consistently with our relevant online practices.

UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
If we change or update this Privacy Policy, we would post changes and updates on Sinospecial.com so that you will be aware of what information we collect, use and disclose at any time. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you would know whether the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

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