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This Web Site Privacy Policy governs the web site located at www.new.net only, which is owned and operated by New.net, Inc. (“New.net”). It does not cover any other web sites or online services owned or operated by New.net or any of its affiliates. New.net publishes separate privacy policies with respect to its software, its Quick! Internet search results pages, and other product offerings. Your privacy is vital to our long-term relationship with you, and protecting your privacy is just one part of our mission to provide you with highly personalized and valuable service.

Required Personally Identifiable Information
To register on our Web site, you must submit your name and e-mail address. In addition, to purchase a domain name, you must submit additional information, including your address, phone number and credit card information. This required personally identifiable information is necessary for us to process transactions for you, protect you against credit card fraud and contact you. When you register with New.net™, we will ask you for a "user name." The user name you select may appear on the web site in connection with future services we provide, such as discussion forums in which you may voluntarily participate.

As a domain name registrar, we compile and maintain a publicly accessible domain name registration database that includes basic information about each domain name registered with us, including the names, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of individuals designated as points of contact for a given domain name. Additionally, we may share the information stored on that database, as well as other information we collect or you provide with carefully selected business partners, including those who offer services that complement those provided by us or which we believe may be of interest to you. In an effort to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13.

Transaction Information
When you authorize a purchase transaction, we will collect certain information related to that transaction such as the location from which you are requesting the search or transaction, the product or service involved, the quantity or amount of the product or service and certain personally identifiable information, such as your password, your credit card information and any special handling requests. This personally identifiable information will never knowingly appear in public areas of our Web site.

Third Party Information
During the processing of your transactions, we collect verification information from our credit card authorization services. Credit card authorization services verify that credit card information and address that they have on file for you matches the information that you have provided to us.

Questionnaires and Surveys
From time to time, we may ask you to complete questionnaires or surveys, which we use to obtain additional demographic information about our users, to measure and improve the quality of our service and to better assess your interests and needs. If we ask you to complete a survey or questionnaire, we will explain how we intend to use the information that you provide to us. You always have the option of not responding to any questionnaire or survey.

General Information
We collect general information about you when you visit our web site. This information includes technical information related to your computer and the manner in which you are accessing our site and includes such information as the internet protocol (IP) address of your computer, what operating system your computer is using, what browser software (e.g., Explorer, Netscape or other) your computer is using, and who your Internet service provider is, the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the web site from which you just came and the URL to which you go next and certain operating metrics, such as the amount of time you use our Web site.

The general information that we gather about you may be aggregated with general information of all users to help us better understand how our site is used. In addition, we aggregate the general information and the personal information. We compile and analyze this aggregated information so that we can provide more meaningful information to corporate partners and more relevant content and advertisements to you.

The Use of Collected Information
We occasionally use your e-mail address to send you electronic newsletters published by New.net. In general, those newsletters provide information about any developments in New.net’s business or product offerings, offers from New.net and its partners, and helpful information about how to take full advantage of New.net domain names. You can opt-out of receiving future New.net newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the newsletter or by changing your preferences on the “Manage My Account” portion of our web site.

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The Sharing of Collected Information

Personally Identifiable Information
As noted above, we currently make certain information about you available to the general public via our domain name registration database look-up and directory services. In addition, we may share certain information about you with those of our vendors who are responsible for handling your account or performing other necessary services that you require. Moreover, when you provide your credit card information in connection with a purchase of a domain name or other product, we transmit your credit card information to our third-party credit card processor, who then stores that information on behalf of New.net. Although we may share your information in our domain name registration database and with promotional partners where necessary or appropriate, we will not share your personally identifying information with other third parties without your consent, except for the following limited purposes:

1. We are compelled to do so by law or by an order of a court or governmental authority.
   
   
2. In order to cooperate with law enforcement authorities or governmental regulatory bodies.
   
   
3. As necessary to complete a transaction for you.
   
   
4. As we deem necessary to protect the rights, safety or property of New.net, our users or others or to enforce our terms of use agreement or privacy policy.
   
   
5. If you use our Web site through a link from one of our promotional partners, then we may be required to share your user registration information or other personally identifying information about any search or transaction that you initiate through such promotional partner with that partner.

Third Party Sites
We may publish links to other sites from our web site. Please note that New.net does not control the content, practices or policies of any other site, including what information those sites collect about you. Accordingly, we do not endorse or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy policies or information gathering practices of any site that you may link to from our site. In addition, you may choose to respond to advertisements that are posted on our web site or made available via our service or to direct marketing offers from third party sponsors or advertisers. We do not control the content, practices or policies of our sponsors or advertisers and, accordingly, do not endorse or hold ourselves responsible for the privacy policies or information gathering practices of any sponsor or advertiser who may collect information about you.

How You Can Access, Limit or Change the Information Collected About You

You may review, update, or make any other changes to the information that we collect from you through the “Manage My Account” portion of our web site. You can also request that the information collected from you be updated at any time by sending an email request to info@new.net.

Security

New.net uses the highest security standard available (SSL) to encrypt all of your credit card and personally identifiable information while it is in transit to us. All data stored on the New.net server is protected by a secure "firewall" so that no unauthorized use or activity can take place. Although New.net will make every effort to safeguard your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk that thieves may find a way to thwart our security system or that transmissions over the Internet will be intercepted.

Amendments to Our Web Site Privacy Policy

We may, from time to time, amend our Privacy Policy. If we do, then we will post such amendments to this document so that you may always have access to our most recent policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of our Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. If at any point we decide to disclose personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by email. You will be given t he choice at that time to "opt-out" of any disclosures of your personal information that you made available to us prior to the change in our policy.

Acknowledgment and Acceptance of our Web Site Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement is incorporated into and subject to the Terms of Use contained on this web site (the "Terms"). As you know, your use of the New.net web site is subject to the Terms. When you register with us, you affirmatively agree to all terms of the Terms, including this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this Web site constitutes your continued agreement to the terms of the Terms, including this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of our Privacy Policy, you should cease using our Web site..

Questions?

Questions regarding this Web Site Privacy Policy should be directed by e-mail to New.net, Inc. at privacy@new.net or, by U.S. mail, to 2102 Rosecrans Avenue, #2000, El Segundo, CA. 90245, Attn: Director of Customer Support.

Effective Date: September 2004.

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