DOWNLOAD2ME PRIVACY STATEMENT

Download2me is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. 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. This privacy statement covers the site www.Download2me.net. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to our users’ privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

1. What personally identifiable information Download2me collects.

2. What personally identifiable information third parties collect through the Web site?

3. What organization collects the information?

4. How Download2me uses the information.

5. With whom Download2me may share user information.

6. What choices are available to users regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?

7. What types of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Download2me control?

8. How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first contact Download2me by posting a note in our site feedback section which can be accessed at http://www.download2me.net/boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=40 .If they do not receive acknowledgment of their inquiry or their inquiry is not satisfactorily addressed, they should then contact TRUSTe through the TRUSTe Watchdog Dispute Resolution Process (http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog.ph). TRUSTe will serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve users concerns.
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. By displaying the TRUSTe trust mark, download2me has agreed to notify users of:

Information Collection and Use

Information Collection
Download2me is the sole owner of the information collected on www.Download2me.net Download2me collects information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Registration
In order to use this Web site, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact the user about services on our site for which he has expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as age and location) but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

Information Use
From Time to tome Download2me will contact our registered members to advise them of changes to our site. As download2me is a community we also use e-mail to ask our community members for feedback on a new section. We do not intend to send a significant number of mails to our members. If the members do not want to receive mails at any time they can change newsletter subscription option within their personal control panels.

Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that detail their viewing preferences. This profile is used for statistical purposes only and ensures such things screen resolutions are optimized for our visitors

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. [Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.] We use session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. http://www.raidersofthelostweb.com/cookies.htm

By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, [the user will not be able to participate in any of our forums. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. See the “Profile” section.

Some of our business partners use cookies on our site for example, focusin. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.

Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by FOCUSIN, our Web advertising partner. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site. For more information about Focusin cookies, and how to "opt-out", please click the following link http://www.focusin.com/privacy.htm

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by download2me only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We use a tracking utility called extremetracking.com that uses log files to analyze user movement

Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
Our third party advertising company employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. The main difference between the two is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Clear gifs are not tied to users’ personally identifiable information.

Clear Gifs can "work with" existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same Web site or advertising company. That means, for example, that if a person visited “www.companyX.com”, which uses an advertising company's clear gif, the Web site or advertising company would match the clear gif's identifier and the advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past online behavior for that computer. This collected information would then be given to the advertising company [or Web site]. To learn more about our advertising company’s use of clear gifs, please go to http://www.focusin.com/

Communications from the Site

Special Offers and Updates
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.

Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.

Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. However, these communications are not promotional in nature. Users may opt-out of these communications. (Please see our Choice and Opt-out section.)

Customer Service
We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account we reply via or forums or via email.

Sharing

Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers, this sort of information is often required if we want to target a particular advertiser. For example, if an advertiser was interested in advertising to our users in the US, they will often ask what percentage of our users is from the US. This is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

Third Party Advertisers
Download2me shares Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party focusin.com for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site and other sites. For example, Download2me uses cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow them to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information they collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable. For more information about our third-party advertiser or for choices about not having this anonymous information used please click this link http://www.focusin.com/privacy.htm

These are the instances in which we will share users’ personal information:
We DO NOT Share Personal Information with Third Parties

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information. For example, our registration form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users who register with us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by UN checking the “receive newsletters from admin” option within their member control panel.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.

Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, Download2me, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Download2me will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Download2me does not store this information.

Security
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.

All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted on our servers. Only the site admin has access to this information but even the admin does not have access to the passwords used which are encrypted once submitted to the site. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment and sit behind the latest Cisco firewalls to prevent hacking from the outside world.

If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can post a message on our site feedback forum by clicking the following link: http://www.download2me.net/boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=40

Supplementation of Information
In order for this Web site to properly fulfill its obligation to users it is necessary for us to supplement the information we receive with information from 3rd party sources.

IP Address Verification We use xmbforums software to verify a user’s IP. This measure is taken to stop users spamming our forums or registering multiple identities.

Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as e-mail address), we provide a way to correct or update or your personally identifiable information. This can be done by logging into download2me and changes the details under your control panel

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:

Website Feedback Forum: http://www.download2me.net/boards/forumdisplay.php?fid=40
Web site URL: http://www.download2me.net/