NeedleDepot.com is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This NeedleDepot.com Statement of Privacy applies to CM Investment's family of Web sites and governs data collection and usage at all NeedleDepot.com sites and services.

NeedleDepot.com is a general audience web site, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Statement of Privacy. NeedleDepot.com does not collect personal information from children.

Collection of your Personal Information

NeedleDepot.com collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. NeedleDepot.com may also collects anonymous demographic information, that is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, favorite pages etc.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by NeedleDepot.com. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by NeedleDepot.com for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of NeedleDepot.com.

NeedleDepot.com uses forms to provide registration and sign-in services. All of the registration information you provide will be stored by NeedleDepot.com.

Use of your Personal Information

NeedleDepot.com and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate NeedleDepot.com and deliver the services you have requested. NeedleDepot.com may also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from NeedleDepot and its affiliates. NeedleDepot.com may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

NeedleDepot.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. NeedleDepot.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, 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.

NeedleDepot.com keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within NeedleDepot.com, in order to determine what NeedleDepot.com sites and services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within NeedleDepot.com to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

NeedleDepot.com does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

NeedleDepot.com may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Microsoft or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of NeedleDepot.com, including its NeedleDepot.com family of Web sites; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NeedleDepot.com, its web sites, or the public.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which NeedleDepot.com, CM Investment or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. NeedleDepot.com abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Control your Personal Information

NeedleDepot.com offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You may go to the NeedleDepot.com Communications Preferences page to proactively make choices about the use and sharing of your personal information. You may choose not to receive marketing material from NeedleDepot.com or on behalf of external third party business partners.

You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from NeedleDepot.com by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. The instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

Security of your Personal Information

NeedleDepot.com strictly protects the security of the personal information you provide. NeedleDepot.com secures the personal information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted over the Internet, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies

NeedleDepot.com uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize NeedleDepot.com's pages, or register with NeedleDepot.com sites or services, a cookie helps NeedleDepot.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to NeedleDepot.com, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the NeedleDepot.com features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the NeedleDepot.com services or Web sites you visit.

Enforcement of this Statement of Privacy

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact NeedleDepot.com via e-mail.

Changes to this Statement

NeedleDepot.com will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. When NeedleDepot.com posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of NeedleDepot.com. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how NeedleDepot.com will use your personal information, NeedleDepot.com will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change.