We respect each site visitor's right to personal privacy and we are committed to protect the privacy of our Members information.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Our site uses cookies to facilitate use of the members area and some services.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information.

Registration is not required to enter our site.

In order to use our services, you must register a Member's account. During registration you will be asked to give certain contact information (like name and email address), but we never sell or give away this information to any third party. We use such contact information (mostly email address) from the registration form to communicate with you about your account and send you informations on improvements, new features, or important changes in our services.

We have order forms on our website for you to subscribe to our paid services. In order to process the order, we require additional informations such as physical address and financial information (i.e. credit card number, expiration date). If we have trouble processing an order, we use the information to contact you. This information is used for billing and customer administration purposes and will only be accessed by authorized staff.

Our services involve realtime website publishing, therefore we require users of such services to provide information such as FTP login user id and password. Such information will be encrypted and stored on our secured server and will only be accessed by authorized staff.

Tooldle.com may contains links to other sites. Although we will do our best to select links that appear on our website, we have no control over and thus, are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or the content of such Web sites. When visiting such sites, we urge you to be an informed surfer and use caution when providing any personal data.

You can access the personal data we may hold about youby signing in to the Member's area ( www.tooldle.com/Members ) or email us at inquiry@tooldle.com. We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, almost instantaneously on-line, although we may before require proof of your identity. In order to protect our Member's information, if we are suspecious about the proof of identity provided, we reserve the right to refuse requests for personal data retrieval. We will provide the information without any charge.

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

Some of our services and tools makes forums, message boards, and guestbooks available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Our privacy policy is compliant with the following instruments:

• The Privacy Act, Canada
• The Personal Information Protection and Electrionic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada

Our privacy policy is not consistent with any applicable global or regional regulatory or self-regulatory privacy instruments.

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These measures include secure servers, encrypted passwords, and other security measures to guarantee the privacy of our members.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• unauthorised access
• improper use or disclosure
• unauthorised modification
• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

By registering a Tooldle Member account, you agree to subscribe to our Members Update and Special Offers mailing lists. We will send you information about our promotions, special offers and new services. The email will not contain third-party endorsements.

If you wish to remove your information from our database or to terminate your Member account, you must send us a request email us to inquiry@tooldle.com or through the Help Desk (http://www.tooldle.com/HelpDesk)

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us in the Help Desk.