Aikido Online Privacy Notice Last updated: May 20, 2003 Aikido Online knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Aikido Online, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice. What Personal Information About Customers Does Aikido Online Gather? The information we learn from customers helps us continually improve your shopping experience at Aikido Online. Here are the types of information we gather. • Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, improving our stores, and communicating with you. • E-mail Communications: We will communicate with you via email only in regard to your orders in the Aikido Online Marketplace. We send out general announcements if you subscribe to Aikido Online. If you do not want to receive general notices from us, please use the Unsubscribe button on the Aikido Online home page. • Information from Other Sources: We have not done this to date, however in the future it is possible that we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. Aikido Online Does Not Share the Information It Receives Information about our customers is considered sensitive, and we do not share it or sell it to others. We share customer information only as described below subject to this Privacy Notice. • Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses. In some cases, such as in the Marketplace, these businesses operate as suppliers of good sold via Aikido Online, and will ship items to you directly. In other cases, we operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these businesses. When a third party is involved in your transactions, and we share customer information related to those transactions with that third party, but only to the extent necessary to send you your order. • Protection of Aikido Online and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Aikido Online, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with companies and organizations for fraud protection. This does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice. How Secure Is Information About Me? • We protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. • We reveal only partial information regarding your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. • It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions If you choose to visit Aikido Online, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Florida. If you have any concern about privacy at Aikido Online, please send us a thorough description to feedback@Aikido Online, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. You should check our Web site frequently to see changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. Information You Give Us You provide most such information when you buy an item, communicate with customer service, place an order through Aikido Online, provide information, communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or participate in Discussion Groups. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information, including addresses and phone numbers.