bvzphoto.com is committed to respecting the privacy of our visitors. The Privacy Policy is our pledge to protect your personal information. Our intention with this Privacy Policy is to disclose to you how your personal information will be gathered from all of the bvzphoto.com websites including www.bvzphoto.com, and how it will be used. If you have any questions or other feedback about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at the address provided below, and we will do our best to respond to your concerns.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 1, 2006. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice, and all updates will be published at www.bvzphoto.com, so please check back periodically. If the update involves a change in the use of your personal information, the update will also contain instructions on how you may opt-out of any such new use.

Personal information will be requested if you register to download our photos or purchase our photos, and when you register for support services or to obtain our online support resources. For example, if you make a purchase or request support, we may ask you for your name, address and information about your purchase or the nature of the problem you are experiencing. We may also request personal information if you correspond with us or engage in certain other activities on our websites. Providing your personal information is completely voluntary, and you are under no obligation to provide personal information to bvzphoto.com, but without providing such information, you may not be able to complete the activity requested, or obtain or get the full benefit of our products and services.

bvzphoto.com will not sell or rent your personal information to any third party. If you provide bvzphoto.com with your personal information, however, we will use it in the following ways:

• To allow you to download our products for noncommercial purposes only;
• To allow you to obtain our support, or engage in activities you select;
• To provide you with information about new products;
• To assist us in creating website content that is relevant to you; and
• To assist us in creating better products and services to meet your needs.

bvzphoto.com uses "cookies" and similar means to collect aggregate Internet traffic statistics and to enhance your experience at our website. A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the hard drive of your computer that allows bvzphoto.com to identify the individual with his or her corresponding data that resides in our databases (i.e., domain name, IP addresses, email address, and browser type). You may read more about cookies at http://cookiecentral.com. bvzphoto.com uses cookies to recognize your preferences, temporarily store session information (such as your login to a download or technical support area), and to remember you when you register for our products and/or services. If you do not want bvzphoto.com to deploy cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie in your browser software. If you choose to decline cookies, however, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website and it may affect your ability to use some of the products and/or services at our websites.

bvzphoto.com websites may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that bvzphoto.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by bvzphoto.com. As such, we encourage you, when you leave our websites, to carefully read the privacy policies of each and every website you visit that collects personal information.

From time to time, we will provide certain information to selected business partners so that we can provide the products and/or services requested bvzphoto.com may also retain outside contractors to perform other services for us. We require that these partners and contractors to keep the personal information of our customers confidential and that they use personal information only on behalf of bvzphoto.com. Please note, however, that if we have a link to our partners' websites on our website and you visit their websites on your own, we encourage you to read their privacy policies as they may differ from ours and bvzphoto.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of our partners relating to their websites.

bvzphoto.com provides a number of ways for you to "opt-out" of receiving additional information from us, or participating in the activities for which you register. If you would like to change your communication preferences or if you decide not to provide us with your information, please contact us at the address provided below and let us know. Without providing such information, however, you may not be able to complete the activity requested, or obtain or get the full benefit of our products and services.

If you provide your personal information to bvzphoto.com and at any time you believe that your information is not current, please update it by contacting us at the address provided below. We will make a sincere effort to respond to your requests to update and/or correct your personal information in our databases, though to the extent that the information is also stored in other databases, we cannot always ensure that corrections and/or changes will reach the other databases. We will also try to provide you with a way to review the personal information that you provide to us and if you wish to have it removed, we will take reasonable steps to remove it from our records, though once again, to the extent that the information is also stored in other records, we cannot always ensure that the changes will reach those other records.

We have taken security measures to protect your personal information, including procedural and technical steps to protect data from unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, or destruction. Of course, there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet.

Children are not eligible to buy, download or use bvzphoto.com products and services, so we ask that minors do not submit any personal information to us or through our websites.

If you have any questions or comments, or if you would like to change the way that we communicate with you, please feel free to contact us using one of the communication methods below: