Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Collection of information
When you visit our website, we do not collect personally identifiable information about you, except when you specifically and knowingly provide it. For instance, while many areas of our website are free to all users, we do require registration for some services such as Product Alert. If you decide to register for these services, or if you request information from us, you will be asked to provide certain information and details, including your name, company, title, country and e-mail address. The information you provide helps us create customized content like Product Alert. You will receive information only for the products that interest you. To see how this works, view a sample of Product Alert in html format or text format.

Our system also logs some basic and generic information about your computer, including its:

• IP address (your computer's unique signature)
• Operating system (e.g. Windows NT)
• Browser software (e.g. Netscape Navigator)

We use this information about your computer to perform routine web site maintenance and to generate various aggregate reports for internal analysis, research and monitoring purposes, and to help us develop and enhance our web site and services for our users.

Global Sources respects your privacy
We will not sell, trade or rent personally identifiable information about our users to other parties, without our users' consent.

We do, however, share certain aggregate information about our users with advertisers, i.e. XX% of site visitors is from North America. This enables us to constantly build a large database of products and suppliers, giving you wider sourcing options.

We also reserve the right to disclose user information in special cases. For example, when we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be infringing (or threatening to infringe) or who may otherwise be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally), our title, rights, interests or property, or those of other web site users, or of anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We also reserve the right to disclose, without notice to you, personal information in response to a subpoena or other judicial order or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by any law, regulation or listing requirement, or by any stock/securities exchange, governmental or regulatory authority.

Use of information
We may use the information you provide to respond to your requests for additional information, to contact you, if necessary, to service your account or for other administrative purposes. We may also access your information to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot problems, to enforce agreements between us, or for marketing purposes. In addition, for certain transactions, our system may use your transaction details to automate and to streamline your transaction by checking for electronic data compliance, providing reporting features, and transferring data from previous forms to those of the current transaction.

We may also use the information you provide for certain mailing initiatives. For example, you may sometimes receive an invitation to answer surveys or try out new products and services from Global Sources. Your feedback helps us develop new products and services based on your needs.

You always have a choice about receiving mailings, surveys or information about products and services from us. Each e-mail you receive has an "Unsubscribe" option. As a registered member, you can also advise us which types of e-mail you wish to receive by updating your Notifications page.

Information relating to community members
For those services which require registration, you will be asked to provide certain personal and business information. Upon registration, you will be enrolled as a member of our global community network. As a community member, you have the right to opt-out of being listed in our membership directory, which only other members and our relevant partners will be able to access.

Corrections of inaccuracies
We are committed to providing reasonable and practical access to you to identify and to correct any inaccuracies in or to update the information you may provide. Our users who have provided information on our web site can contact our Customer Services Department at help@tradepapa.com or use the relevant automated updating system (where applicable) to make corrections or updates.

Co-branded and alliance relationships
We have established relationships with other parties on the Internet to offer you the benefit of other products and services which we ourselves do not offer. We offer you access to these other parties either through the use of hyperlinks to their sites from our site, or through offering "co-branded" sites in which both ourselves and these other parties share the same URL, domain name or pages within a domain name on the Internet. Generally, we do not own the co-branded and alliance parties and we do not control how they use any information you supply them. It is therefore important that you understand their privacy policy and/or terms of use if you visit and use their sites.

Third party service providers
You may notice that some services available through our website are "Powered by" or "Provided by" other third party content or technology service providers. We contract with these third party providers to help us provide you with better value and service. To fully access and use such services, you may sometimes be required to register for them or to otherwise provide certain information and data. In order to provide you with the services in question, such information and data may have to be made available to the third party provider, who may then process or update such information and data and transmit them back to us. We are highly selective in choosing these third party providers, and they are allowed to use your information and data only for the purpose of and in connection with providing the services which we have contracted with them to provide.

Important Notice:
Although we adhere to industry standard practices to protect your personal information and confidential data, we cannot ensure that such information and data will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

COOKIES

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk, so as to help the website remember who you are, amongst other things.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Use of cookies on our website
Cookies help us to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly, and to make our website more convenient and useful to you. Most major websites use cookies.

Two types of cookies are used on our website:

Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website.

Persistent Cookies: These are stored in your computer and remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer. The storage period will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie.

How and why we use cookies on our website and what information we collect

• To allow you to access stored information within a registration process.
• To allow you to carry information across pages of our website and avoid you having to re-enter information. For example, to help automatically fill in your inquiry or other forms with your contact and other applicable details.
• To save or record your user ID and/or password (at your option), so that you do not have to repeatedly log-in when you visit our website.
• To allow you to maintain an inquiry basket, and to help us determine which of our active supplier community members you are addressing your inquiries to.
• To identify you as a member, customer or referred user of an alliance or business partner, when you log-in using a unique reference code previously issued to you.
• To determine if you have already visited or logged-in to our website.
• To record the category or type of user to which you belong, based upon the services for which you have registered, subscribed or paid for.
• To determine which of our relevant computer servers you will be directed to.
• To ensure that you do not receive "pop-up" banners or advertisements, if you have opted not to receive such "pop-ups" during the session.
• To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our website and to help us improve the structure, services and features of our website. You will not be personally identified in this way.

Persistent Cookies:

• To help us recognize you as a unique visitor when you return to our website, for trend reports and analysis, or to allow us to tailor content to match your preferred interests, or to avoid or minimize showing you the same content repeatedly.
• To save or record your user ID and/or password (at your option), so that you do not have to repeatedly log-in when you visit our website.
• To help our system identify who you are, if you have opted to "remember me" during the log-in process.
• To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our website and to help us improve the structure, services and features of our website. You will not be personally identified in this way.
• Within research surveys, to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often, or after you have already done so.

Third Party Cookies:

• Third parties serve cookies through this website. These are used for counting the number of anonymous users referred to our website by the third parties. These cookies do not carry any personally identifiable information and are merely used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

Web Beacons
Some pages on our website may contain images known as "web beacons" (also known as "clear gifs"), some of which may be served by third parties. They allow us to count users who have viewed these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information, including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. These web beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are merely used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

Disabling/Enabling Cookies
There are a number of ways to manage your cookies. You can decide to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can also set-up your browser to warn you every time a cookie is sent, so that you can review the cookie before you decide whether or not to accept it.

For example, if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or earlier:

• Click on "Internet Options" from the "Tools" menu in your browser (older versions may have this option under the "View" menu instead).
• Select the "Security" tab.
• Click the web content zone which you want, and then click "Custom Level".
• Under "Cookies", select the options you want, click "OK", and then click "OK".

If you are using Netscape version 6:

• Go to "Edit" in the menu, and click on "Preferences".
• Click on "Advanced" and then select the "Cookies" field.
• Choose your preferred cookies option by checking the appropriate box.
• Click on "OK" to close the box and save your changes.

If you are using other versions or other browser software, then you can select "cookies" from the "Help" function in your browser for information on how to manage your cookies settings.

If you use different computers in different locations to access our website, you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

Some of our site services or features require cookies. If you disable or do not accept cookies on our website, you may not be able to use, access or participate in such site services or features fully or at all.

Deleting Cookies
You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser.

For example, if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 or earlier:

• Click on "Internet Options" from the "Tools" menu in your browser (older versions may have this option under the "View" menu instead).
• Under the "General" tab, click on the "Settings..." button.
• In the "Settings" box, click on the "View Files..." button at the bottom.
• You will now see a list of all the temporary files that Internet Explorer has stored in your computer for quick access. This is also where all cookies are stored.
• Select the cookie file(s) which you wish to delete, then hit the "Delete" button on your keyboard. Press "Yes" at the prompt to confirm your deletion.

If you are using Netscape version 6:

• Click on "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.
• Under the "Advanced" tab, go to the "Cookies" option, then click on the "View Stored Cookies" button.
• A "Cookie Manager" box will appear. Scroll down to review and select the cookie file(s) which you wish to delete, then click "Remove Cookie". You can also click on the "Remove All Cookies" button to clear all cookies stored in your computer.
• Click "OK", and "OK" again, to close the boxes and save your changes.

If you are using other versions or other browser software, then you can select "cookies" from the "Help" function in your browser for information on where to find your cookie folder to delete your cookies.

Our Contact Information
If you have any queries, comments or concerns, or require any help on cookie-related matters, please feel free to contact us at: help@tradepapa.com