Valladium Privacy Notice
March 2009

The Valladium Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Valladium's products and services. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to Valladium.

Personal information
You need a Valladium Account to participate in different sections of this site. Valladium asks for some personal information when you create a Valladium Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A Valladium Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.

Uses
Valladium maintains and processes personal information in order to provide a personalized experience and other services. This information will be stored in a cookie on your machine and sent to Valladium when you request the page if you have set up a page without an associated Valladium Account, or transmitted to Valladium's servers and securely stored in association with your Valladium Account information if you are signed in to your Valladium Account.

Your choices
You can terminate your Valladium Account at any time as described here. You can change or delete the preference settings in your Valladium Account at any time. You can delete your cookie with your preferences stored by following the instructions for deleting cookies in your browser.

Information Sharing
Some Valladium sections are provided by third parties, who may receive and process your requests and preference settings for those services in order to provide their service. In some cases, other information including one or more of your Valladium cookies may also be technically available to the third party, although third parties are prohibited by contract from accessing your Valladium cookies or other information unrelated to the servies they provide. Use of your information by these third parties is not governed by this Privacy Policy.
We may share aggregate statistics about Valladium usage with our business partners. We will not share personally identifying information with these partners or any third parties, without your consent, except under the narrow circumstances described in the Valladium Privacy Policy. Some links on Valladium pages may lead to third-party websites. When you click one of these kinds of links, you will be taken to a third-party website, and will then be goverened by their privacy policy; this (Valladium's) privacy policy will no longer be in effect.

Third Party Ads

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

More information
Valladium adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.