Thank you for visiting www.MapuaWorld.com. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.

The Information We Collect
At this site, you can download software, enter contests, express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and information about your interests in and use of various programs, and services. You can submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send newsletter. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for something. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our website, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you. We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them emails. The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities.

We will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Rules for Chatrooms, Bulletin Boards, and Other User-Supplied Material
This website may have an area which allows you to "chat" or upload and download materials. When using any of these areas, you agree not to post, send, transmit, upload, or otherwise publish through this Site, any materials that (1) interfere with anyone else's use of the Site; (2) are abusive, illegal, indecent, obscene, offensive, or threatening in any way; (3) encourage anyone to break the law; (4) violate anyone's copyright or other property right; (5) interfere with the privacy of any other user; (6) contain a virus or any other harmful component; or (7) contain false or misleading statements of fact or descriptions of the origin of the material or the communication. You agree to comply with any additional terms which are referred to on this Site or any subsite within the website.

Responsibility for User's Material
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane, threatening, or unlawful material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Although MapuaWorld2004 may from time to time monitor or review bulletin boards, chatrooms, discussions, postings, transmissions, and the like on the Site, MapuaWorld2004 is under no obligation to do so and assumes no liability or responsibility arising from the contents of any such communications or for any defamation, error, inaccuracy, libel, obscenity, or profanity contained in any such communication. MapuaWorld2004 may change, edit, or remove any user material or conversations that are illegal, indecent, obscene, or offensive, or that violate MapuaWorld2004's policies in any way. MapuaWorld2004 will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing MapuaWorld2004 to disclose the identity of anyone posting such materials.

MapuaWorld2004's Rights to User's Material
If you send any communications or materials to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any comments, data, questions, suggestions, or the like, all such communications are, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Thus, you give up any claim that any use of such material violates any of your rights including moral rights, privacy rights, proprietary or other property rights, publicity rights, rights to credit for material or ideas, or any other right, including the right to approve the way MapuaWorld2004 uses such material.

Any material submitted to this Site may be adapted, changed, copied, disclosed, performed, posted, transmitted, or used by MapuaWorld2004 anywhere in the world, in any medium, forever. Furthermore, MapuaWorld2004 is free to use, without any compensation to you, any concepts, ideas, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing and marketing products using such information. However, you agree and understand that MapuaWorld2004 is not obligated to use any such ideas or materials, and you have no rights to compel such use.

Transmitted Material
Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to this Site may be read or intercepted by others, unless there is a special notice that a particular message (for example, credit card information) is encrypted (sent in code). Sending a message to MapuaWorld2004 does not cause MapuaWorld2004 to have any special responsibility to you.

Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy
The terms of this policy will govern the use and any information collected while it is in place. MapuWorld2004 reserves the right to change this policy at any time, so please re-visit this page as often as you wish. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are posted to this Site.