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Privacy Policy
Effective on November 19, 2006

At SierraStock.com, we understand and respect concerns about the privacy of any information you supply while visiting our Web site. This privacy policy explains our online collection and use of information with respect to all visitors to SierraStock.com.

This site is operated by Sierra Stock, Inc. in the United States and abroad. By using this site, you agree that the information collected from this site may be retained indefinitely and may be stored, accessed and used in jurisdictions whose privacy laws may be different and less protective than those of your home jurisdiction.

Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use this Web site unsupervised and we ask that children do not register for an account or submit any personal information to us. By using this site unsupervised, and/or registering for an account, you warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.

Personal Information
SierraStock.com collects certain personal information from users of this Web site. Personal information is defined as information that identifies you, as an individual, including your name, billing address, home address, telephone number, and e-mail address. We only collect personally identifiable information about you after you have specifically and knowingly provided such information to us. By voluntarily providing this information to us at various points when using our Site, including, sending us a comment or suggestion, entering a chatroom or bulletin board, or entering a contest that is posted on our Site, you will be consenting to the collection and use of your personal information by us for that online activity. You are under no obligation to provide us with this information and can access many aspects of the Site without providing us any personal information.

Guests are required to provide certain personal information in order to access images, and authorized users must provide certain contact and account information in order to access and download images. SierraStock.com may use certain account information such as credit card number and company information of authorized users to conduct credit inquiries. SierraStock.com uses this information for internal purposes (to process your order and any invoices, to maintain or update your SierraStock.com account, or to send you updates about special offers, new services, special promotions, and noteworthy news and events). SierraStock.com does not sell or rent information about its customers to third parties.

Profile Information
Your profile information in the registration form may be used by SierraStock.com to create personalized content, services, and advertising on the SierraStock.com web site. SierraStock.com may also profile your Web site activity in order to accurately track your account and provide you with SierraStock.com products and services that correspond to your interests.

SieraStock.com may also compile data in aggregate form so that we may better understand the users that are visiting our site. For example, we may produce reports on the most popular search terms by collecting general search term data based on individual searches. Aggregate data is anonymous and does not contain any personal information that identifies a user.

Automatically Collected Information
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We collect personal and non-personal information in a non-identifying, anonymous and aggregate form to enhance our Site design and for statistical purposes. These statistics and reports will contain only aggregated and no personally identifiable information.

We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to segregate customer types for analytical purposes.

When email addresses are optionally submitted by user, SierraStock.com will use this email address and any personal information collected for the purpose of responding to the user's request.

Use of Service Providers
We occasionally hire or partner with other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as managing and handling the processing and delivery of mailings (both email and postal mail), providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Change of Address or Contact Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct or update your information by making the change on the Account Information page of our Web site, by emailing Customer Support, or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. Your request will be processed and implemented within thirty (30) days.

Security
SierraStock.com has a number of operational functions in place to protect the confidentiality of personal information. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in secured facilities. SierraStock.com employees are trained and kept up-to-date on our security procedures. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to .

We use SSL encryption technologies to transmit sensitive information, such as a credit card number, to our servers. However, perfect security on the Internet does not exist, and Sierra Stock does not warrant that its Web site is impenetrable or invulnerable to hackers.

Cookies
When you visit the SierraStock.com, the Web site sends your computer a cookie, which is a small file that resides on your computer's hard drive and contains non-personally identifiable information about the user. Cookies only identify the user's computer. Cookies allow Sierra Stock to make its Web site more useful by storing information about your preferences. You can set your browser's options not to accept cookies, but this may prevent you from accessing all of the features of the Web site.

E-mail
SierraStock.com does not rent or sell e-mail lists. We may send you e-mail to notify you about your recent order; this will be sent to the e-mail address you provide to SierraStock.com.

SierraStock.com offers its members the choice to not receive e-mails or updates about special benefits, promotions, or offers from SierraStock.com. If you no longer wish to receive these updates, or you wish to unsubscribe from SierraStock.com membership, you can update this preference yourself on the Account Information page of the SierraStock.com Web site.

Surveys and Contests
Participation in surveys or contests on the SierraStock.com SierraStock.com Web site is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose personal information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use of the Web site.

Links
Please be aware that the SierraStock.com may contain links to other sites that are covered by their own privacy policies. SierraStock.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site. We recommend that our users read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Changes to SierraStock.com's Online Privacy Policy
SierraStock.com reserves the right to change our online privacy policy. However, we shall not do so without posting those changes on the Web site. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you via email or by posting a prominent notice on our Web site thirty (30) days prior to implementing the change. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.

Legal Disclaimer
We may be required by law to disclose personal information without your consent in the event of emergency situations, or when required by government or other legal authority, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with a legal process served on our Web site.

We may also disclose personal information to third parties in connection with a corporate re-organization, merger or amalgamation, or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, provided that the personal information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring this information.

Please be advised that when you voluntarily disclose information on the bulletin boards or in the forum or chat areas of our Site, your personal and other information disclosed in your communication shall become public information and can be collected and used by other parties. We cannot control what third parties in the bulletin board or chatroom do with your personal information.

Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions about SierraStock.com's privacy policy or concerns about personal information you have supplied to us, please contact Sierra Stock Customer Service at: . You may also write to us at the address listed below:

Sierra Stock
Attn: Customer Service
1221-A Haskell Street
Reno, NV 89509
   
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