Buycastings.com is an independent business-to-business e-marketplace providing an interactive exchange where buyers/designers, foundries and suppliers to the metal casting industry can come together as a community to take advantage of the efficiencies of e-Commerce. The following privacy policy will help you to understand how we will treat any personally identifiable information that you provide to us while using this Web site ("Site"). Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

Buycastings.com collects information from this Site that you personally provide to us. During registration, Buycastings.com asks for personally identifiable information such as your name, company, address, telephone, e-mail address and capabilities. In addition to the information you voluntarily provide to us, we collect Site visitor information by monitoring user traffic patterns and Site usage. We also collect some basic and anonymous information about your computer when you visit our web Site including, but not limited to, your IP address, the operating system used by your computer and your browser software.

Use of Information Collected
Buycastings.com's primary purpose for collecting the information that you provide to us is to facilitate transactions between buyers and foundries and between foundries and suppliers. Secondly, we use the information that you provide to improve our Site and to provide you with an experience on our Site that may be tailored to your preferences and buying habits. Finally, we use the information that you provide on our Site to inform you of promotions or new products that foundries and suppliers are offering. Buycastings.com uses "cookies" in order to identify users of the Site and make your use of the Site more productive. A cookie is a small data file that attaches to users' hard drives when they visit our Site. A cookie file can contain information, such as user identification, and may track and store information about a user's usage of a Web site. The only personal information a cookie can contain has to be supplied by the user.

Sharing of Information Collected
When you are on the Buycastings.com Site and are asked to provide information, you are sharing that information with only Buycastings.com, its agents and representatives, and, to the extent reasonably necessary to facilitate transactions, participating foundries, suppliers and buyers. Buycastings.com will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to any other third party except when we have your express permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it. Buycastings.com may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary or useful to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Buycastings.com's rights or property, other Buycastings.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Also, Buycastings.com may disclose account information in the following situations: (i) to correct technical problems and malfunctions; (ii) to protect the security and integrity of the Site and services provided by the Site; (iii) to protect the rights and property of Buycastings.com and the rights and property of others; (iv) to defend against claims that can cause liability; (v) to respond to claims that your information violates the rights or interests of third parties; and (vi) to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety, as applicable.

Security
Buycastings.com will take precautions to protect the data and information under its control from misuse, loss or alteration. Security measures taken by Buycastings.com will include common industry technology and equipment to help protect your data. No data transmission over the Internet can be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, Buycastings.com cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Please keep in mind that, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on-line, the information can be collected and used by others. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and/or any account information.

Copyrights and Trademarks
Unless otherwise noted, the content of our site is owned, controlled or licensed by Buycastings.com and is protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, trade dress, and other intellectual property laws.

Passwords and Usernames
After you register, every time you log on to Buycastings.com, you use your username and password - secure words that only you and Buycastings.com know. The username helps us to identify you and the information you have stored on on-line. When we see your username, we know who you are. Your password keeps all the information you have given us--like your name and address--secure. To protect this security, you should not divulge your password to anyone. Your username and password should be something unique that you know you will remember. [Passwords need to be a minimum of 8 characters in length and should contain both UPPERCASE and lowercase letters and numbers.]

Changes to Privacy Policy
Buycastings.com reserves the right to change, modify or alter all or any portion of this policy at any time in our sole discretion. If our policy changes in the future, the updated policy will be posted here. This policy was last updated on December 18, 2000.

Complaints, Comments, Concerns
[You may contact Buycastings.com regarding our privacy policy by e-mailing us at nchaudhry@buycastings.com.] BUYCASTINGS.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OR PRIVACY PRACTICES OF OTHER WEB SITES TO WHICH OUR SITE MAY BE LINKED.

By using this Site, you agree to Buycastings.com's privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site.