1. Protecting Your Privacy
   Emporia is committed to providing you with the highest levels of customer service. This includes protecting your privacy. This policy outlines how information is collected and used.
   
   
2. Emporia
   Emporia provides a range of online interactive services. Advertizable.com is owned and operated by Emporia.
   
   
3. Your personal information
   Personal information held by Emporia may include your gender, first name, last name, date of birth, email address, company name, occupation, interests, income, testimonial, home or business address, age, telephone/mobile number, fax number, account password and account ID. Emporia also holds details of your Emporia services (including their status).
   
   If you choose not to provide certain personal information (e.g. email address), Emporia may not be able to provide you with the services you require, or the desired level of service.
   
   Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to Emporia (e.g. about your authorised representatives). If so, Emporia relies on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to Emporia and to advise them that Emporia can be contacted for further information (see 'How to contact us' below).
   
   
4. How we collect personal information
   Emporia collects personal information in a number of ways, including:
   1. directly from you, when you submit your personal details through Emporia 's web sites (e.g. during Advertizable.com account registration);
   2. from third parties such as credit reporting agencies or your representatives;
   3. from publicly available sources of information;
   4. from the organisations identified below under 'When Purplex discloses your personal information';
   5. from Emporia 's own records of how you use your Purplex services; or when legally required to do so.
   
   
   
5. How we use your personal information
   Your personal information may be used to:
   
   
   1. verify your identity;
   2. assist you to subscribe to Emporia 's services;
   3. provide the services you require;
   4. administer and manage those services;
   5. inform you of ways the services provided to you could be improved;
   6. conduct appropriate checks for credit-worthiness and for fraud;
   7. research and develop Emporia 's services;
   8. gain an understanding of your needs in order for Emporia to provide you with a better service; and
   9. maintain and develop Emporia 's business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems.
   
   Also, your personal information is collected so that Emporia can promote and market its services to you (including by way of direct mail, email, telemarketing, SMS and MMS messages). Emporia does this to keep you informed of its products, services and special offers. If you do not wish Emporia to promote and market its products, services and special offers to you, please contact privacy (see 'How to contact us' below).
   
   
6. When we disclose your personal information
   In order to deliver the services you require, Emporia may disclose your personal information to organisations outside of Emporia. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations only in relation to Emporia providing its services to you. These organisations carry out Emporia 's:
   
   
   1. customer enquiries;
   2. mailing operations;
   3. billing and debt-recovery functions;
   4. information technology services;
   5. marketing;
   6. security;
   7. market research; and
   8. web site usage analysis.
   
   Emporia takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.
   
   In addition, Emporia may disclose your personal information to:
   
   
   1. your authorised representatives or your legal advisers (e.g. when requested by you to do so);
   2. credit-reporting, credit providers and fraud-checking agencies;
   3. Emporia 's related companies;
   4. Emporia 's professional advisers, including its accountants, auditors and lawyers;
   5. government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law; and
   6. organisations who manage Emporia 's business.
   
   
   
7. Tell a Friend and Refer a Friend
   While visiting Advertizable.com, if you elect to use our referral service to inform a friend about our site, we ask for your friend's name and email address. Emporia collects the email address of your friend for the sole purpose of automatically sending the friend an email inviting them to visit the site and does not store this information.
   
   
8. Purplex's web sites
   Emporia provides services via its various web sites. When you visit Emporia 's sites, its web servers record anonymous information such as the time, date and URL of the request. This information assists Emporia to improve the structure of its web sites, monitor their performance and moderate the services of its web sites.
   
   Emporia use 'cookies' on various web sites. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our web sites may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for Emporia 's web sites to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience of Emporia 's web sites.
   
   In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. Emporia extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources. You can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas of our web sites or take advantage of the improved web site experience that cookies offer.
   
   Emporia also collects Internet addresses including Internet protocol (IP) address and Host name. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. Emporia collects and manages IP addresses as part of the service of providing internet session management and for security purposes.
   
   
9. Help us to ensure we hold accurate information
   Emporia takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information it collects, uses and discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That's why Emporia recommends that you:
   
   1. let Emporia know if there are any errors in your personal information; and
   2. keep Emporia up-to-date with changes to your personal information such as your name.
   
   
   
10. You can access your personal information
    You have a right to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, you will need to put your request in writing for security reasons (see 'How to contact us' below). Emporia reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for and providing access to your information.
    
    
11. How to contact us
    If you have any questions in relation to privacy, contact us.

Emporia Privacy Statement December 2007.