ProofTrader Terms, Conditions, and Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 26, 2010

Registration to ProofTrader is free. We insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below.

Although ProofTrader, Inc and its officers and employees (hereafter referred to as "PT" or "we" or "us" or "ProofTrader") will attempt to keep all objectionable content off this site, it is impossible for us to review all articles, comments, and images. All content expresses the views of the author, and PT will not be held responsible for the content of any user-submitted text or images.

Contributors' articles shall not be construed as financial advice, only market commentary.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any content that may be considered by a reasonable adult as obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, hateful, threatening, or otherwise in violation of any laws of your home state, the State of Delaware, or federal laws of the United States of America.

ProofTrader reserves the right to remove, edit, move or disable any content for any reason.

Terms of Use

In using this Site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and to the Terms and Conditions listed here. ProofTrader may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page periodically to review these Terms and Conditions, because they are binding on you as changed.

Content

Except as specifically indicated otherwise, the text, graphics, images, videos, information and all other materials ("Materials") on this Site are copyrights, trademarks, trade names or other intellectual property owned, licensed or otherwise controlled by ProofTrader. ProofTrader authorizes you to view the Materials on ProofTrader web pages, download or make a single copy of all or a portion of the Materials only for your personal noncommercial use. You may not otherwise copy or download Materials, and may not modify, use or distribute the Materials, this Site or any related software in any way unless you obtain the advance written permission of ProofTrader. In the event you download Materials for your personal noncommercial use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the Materials. If you violate these Terms and Conditions, your permission to use the Materials terminates, and you must immediately destroy all copies of the Materials.

Accessing the Site

ProofTrader wants you to browse this Site freely. However, you do so at your own risk. By using this Site, you acknowledge and agree that ProofTrader is not responsible or liable for damages of any kind (including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive) related to your use of the Site. You agree to indemnify and hold ProofTrader harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses, including without limitation, attorneys' fees, arising from or related in any manner to your use of the Site or any of the Materials.

ProofTrader provides the information on the Site on an "as-is" basis, without any warranties of any nature. ProofTrader disclaims all express and implied warranties, including merchantability, non-infringement and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will ProofTrader be liable for any loss of profits, business, use or data or for indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages of any kind whether based in contract, negligence or other tort. ProofTrader may make changes to the Materials and the product information and prices at any time without notice and without obligation to update the Materials.

ProofTrader is not able to inspect or confirm that the Materials contained on the Site that are linked to this page are correct in every case. From time to time there may be information on the Site that is inaccurate or incomplete, or that contains typographical errors. ProofTrader may change information on the Site at any time without prior notice.

If you are dissatisfied with ProofTrader.com, you do not agree with any part of this agreement, or you have any other dispute or claim with or against ProofTrader with respect to this agreement or ProofTrader.com, then your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using ProofTrader.com.

Outside Links

ProofTrader may provide links to third party web sites solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement. Your use of such websites may be subject to terms and conditions established by those websites. ProofTrader has no control over websites that are not ours. ProofTrader assumes no responsibility for the content of any sites it links to and has not reviewed the content of such sites. Your access of those sites is at your own risk.

Feedback

ProofTrader welcomes your feedback at various places in the Site. You agree that when submitting feedback, you will not violate the rights of third parties, including without limitation, privacy, proprietary or intellectual property rights, and you will not submit libelous, obscene, abusive, or otherwise illegal materials.

Any communication or other material you send to the Site by e-mail or other means, including your questions or comments, is considered non-confidential. By sending communications to this Site, you grant ProofTrader a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, edit, distribute, perform and display any communication or other materials you transmit to the Site (and the ideas contained in such material) for any purpose, anywhere, including reproducing, posting or publicizing such material or using such material for marketing purposes.

ProofTrader makes no claims that the Materials are appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States. Access to the Materials by certain persons in certain countries may not be legally allowed. If you access the Materials outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

Venue

This Site, including, but not limited to, these Terms of Use and the Site Privacy Policy shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without regard for conflict of law principles. Venue for any dispute regarding anything contained within and/or resulting from access to this Site shall lie exclusively in the State of Delaware.


Privacy

Our Commitment to Online Privacy
This is the web site of ProofTrader, Inc.  You can contact us in writing by using the feedback link on our website or by sending email to feedback@prooftrader.com. We highly value our user relationships and we want to make sure that you understand the details of how our products and services utilize the information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy outlines what information we collect, how we collect it and what we do with that information.

Unless stated otherwise, you grant ProofTrader a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license for full and unrestricted use of all information transmitted, printed or otherwise submitted via this Website.

This Website contains links to other sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.

Information We Collect

We collect aggregate information on what pages you access or visit, information volunteered by you, such as site registrations, order information and other personal information that you knowingly and willingly volunteer through any of our on-line forms, registration forms and pages.

For each visit to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes your IP address and domain name, type of client computer, type of Web browser, type of operating system, pages you are visiting and referring URLs.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to a description of information that we maintain about them. You can access this information by sending us an email via the feedback link on prooftrader.com.

We Do Not Intend to Collect Data from Children

Individuals under thirteen (13) years of age are not permitted to utilize ProofTrader.  By agreeing to these terms, you are certifying that you are at least thirteen years of age.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and California Financial Privacy Act Notice
For purposes of compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999, 15 U.S.C. 6802 (the "GLB Act") and the California Financial Privacy Act, Calif. Fin. Code 4050 et. seq. ("CFPA"), this Privacy Policy shall serve as both your initial customer relationship and annual "Privacy Notice" as defined under the GLB Act and the CFPA.

How We Gather the Information

We use cookies to record session information, record specific information on what pages you access or visit, record past activity at our site in order to provide better service when you return to our site.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing information about you. Cookies have many benefits to enhance your experience at our Website. For instance, by setting a cookie on our Website, a user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our Website. Even in the case where a user rejects a cookie, they may still use our Website. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in what he/she can access in some areas on our Website, much like visitor-level access.


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, visit
www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

How We Use Your Information

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Website, to customize the content and/or layout of our pages and to contact you with content we think you may be interested in. Your personal information will never be sold for marketing purposes.

We reserve the right to release current or past user information in the event we believe that the service and/or Website is being or has been used in violation of the Website’s Terms and Conditions, or to commit unlawful acts, if the information is subpoenaed, if we are sold or acquired, or when we deem it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to these conditions, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party, when we, in our sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third-parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time, and Federal Trade Commission enabling regulations.

In addition, in the event we consider a transaction involving the purchase or sale of our assets or stock, other companies may review our records, including your information, to make business decisions about the transaction. Likewise, your information may be transferred to third parties in the event of the sale or acquisition of our company or any of its assets. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors, merchant banks, our internet service provider, etc.) also may have access to your information in performing their services.


From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Website periodically. Your continued use of our service, website or acceptance of our e-mails following the posting of changes to this Policy will mean that you accept any and all such changes.