This statement discloses the privacy practices for the Pangaea Web site. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit initiative whose mission is to build users’ trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting TRUSTe’s principles of fair information practices. Because this site wants to demonstrate its commitment to respecting your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. When you visit a Web site displaying the TRUSTe mark, you can expect to be notified of:
If the Web site has not responded to your inquiry within seven days or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, contact TRUSTe. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. The primary purpose of the Pangaea site is to:
1.Promote the Pangaea to end users like yourself.
2.Provide support for Pangaea Members.
3.Offer online consumers information about Pangaea.
4.Give consumers a forum in which they can comment and report on Pangaea related transactions and submit suggestions or concerns.
Users are encouraged to report any irregularities or apparent misuse of our system so that Pangaea may deal directly with any problems consumers may encounter in using the system on any merchant site. Though we may from time to time run consumer promotions this is not a regular activity on our site. Regarding contests, we may ask for visitor contact information (like their email address). We use customer contact information from registration forms to send user information about our company and promotional material from some of our merchant/agent partners. The customer’s contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the “Opt-out” section below. Our site uses application forms and registration requests only for prospective merchant and agent accounts. These application forms require that you enter your contact information including your name and address. This information is used solely for the purpose of identifying and communicating with the client/prospect and is not shared or distributed to outside sources. Depending on the nature of some promotions we may ask for contact information (like an email address) when a visitor clicks through to our site.
If this information is intended to be shared with Pangaea stakeholders, merchants or agents the visitor will be specifically informed of this intent and offered the opportunity to decline or subscribe with conditions that would limit further distribution of the information provided. Opt-Out Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. Delete/Deactivate This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: