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Your Privacy

TRUSTe Absolute Privacy Guarantee

OneShare.com is relentless about protecting our members' privacy. Our policy is clear: We won't release or sell ANY of your information. Please review our full policy below.

Effective Date: March 16, 2006

OneShare.com® is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This covers www.oneshare.com. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. By displaying the TRUSTe trustmark, OneShare.com has agreed to notify you of:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information that is collected from you through the web site.
  2. The organization collecting the information.
  3. How the information is used.
  4. With whom the information may be shared.
  5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
  6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under OneShare.com company control.
  7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact the OneShare.com Operations Department via email. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe through the "»TRUSTe WatchDog Dispute Resolution Process". TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with OneShare.com to resolve your concerns.

OneShare.com understands the importance of keeping your personal information private and secure. We have adopted strict policies and guidelines of security and confidentiality. On our Web site, we use the latest Web site security. In addition, only employees trained in the proper handling of customer information who are required to access the information for your gift processing are able to view your information.

Our Web site is an extension and now an integral part of our traditional business − it is a convenient service tool for you to use to order One Share of Stock gifts. Our Web site provides you access to the same traditional service features you have come to expect from the OneShare.com website. Naturally, we maintain a record of your account to service you. For example, we use it to send you updated site information, Stock Of The Month, My First Stock news, and other OneShare.com news, much as we do when you call our Customer Service Department.

Our Commitment To Privacy And Security

The OneShare.com guarantee: We are adamant about protecting our customers' privacy. Our policy is clear: We will NEVER release or sell any of the information you give us without your clear permission regarding a specific promotion or opportunity. We'll use the information you give us to protect your security and to channel relevant information to you in the way that you want it. OneShare.com will also make various promotions and offers of interest available to OneShare.com Registered Members and Customers unless you have opted-out of promotional material.

One Share of Stock staff have created this privacy guarantee in order to demonstrate just how committed we are to protecting the privacy of our Customers and the privacy of other visitors to our web site, www.oneshare.com. This statement explains why we ask for the information that we do, how we will use it, and what access you have to the information we collect.

Our site uses a secure server (SSL) to encrypt all of your personal information. We use strong security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your information under our control.

Legal Disclosure: We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Your Personal Information Collected

We collect and store contact information in various forms; including newsletter sign-ups, questionnaires, surveys, sweepstakes, and electronic mail. If you choose to provide us with this information, we may use this data to tailor your experience at our site, show you content, products or services that we think you might be interested in, and display the content according to your preferences. This is done by the use of "cookies". The term "cookies" and how it is used is explained in it's dedicated section below ("Use Of Cookies"). We also collect and store the following other information about you when you visit our web site: your IP address, current Web page, pages visited and time spent on our site, and browser you are using.

OneShare.com collects and stores the following personal information from the purchaser and gift recipient when a purchase is executed from our web site, catalog, fax, or telephone (however, please understand the TRUSTe program only covers the web site at this time): name, telephone number, address, e-mail address, social security number, citizenship, credit card number (if applicable), and type of stock purchased. OneShare.com sales staff also collects data on what we call Sales Source. Sales Source is the method of how you visited and/or was informed of the OneShare.com website (examples: search engine, television ad, newspaper/magazine article, word of mouth from a friend). We also collect and store the following personal information when you sign up to receive our E-mail Newsletter or request a catalog; name, address, and electronic mail address. All of this information is stored internally by OneShare.com.

How Your Personal Information Is Used

We DO NOT share your personally identifiable information, except to process and fulfill your order. The OneShare.com website uses an order form so that you can request information, products, and services. Contact information (e-mail address, telephone number, etc.) from the order form is used to send your orders and information about our company to you (however, you can opt-out of promotional e-mails. See Below). Your contact information is also used to get in touch with you when necessary to fulfill your order. Contact information for gift recipients may also be collected solely in order to ensure correct gift delivery and proper registration of the stock purchased. Financial information (credit card numbers, credit card expiration dates, billing address, etc.) that is collected is used to bill you for products and services. Financial information is not used for any other purpose than billing.

When you consent to receive information and purchase stock from any of the companies OneShare.com provides, or arranges on your behalf, we will provide these companies with your Recipient contact information and social security number. This is necessary as the product we sell is a "live" security and the Recipient is benefited with all shareholder rights in the company in which the stock is purchased.

OneShare.com uses aggregate demographic and other information it collects for sales and marketing purposes and shares that information with current and prospective investors, transaction fulfillment companies, and issuing companies. Demographic studies are performed by a third party using a Zip+Four method only. A Zip+Four method entails a study such as, for example, income level, educational level, and age profile in which a collective group of people live by postal zip code. This information is used solely for OneShare.com staff to better understand the client base it serves. None of this information as shared contains any personal identifiers, nor is it tied to your personally identifiable information once shared.

Each month OneShare.com will send an electronic mailing (Newsletter) to everyone who has provided us with an electronic mailing address. If you receive such a mailing and wish to opt-out of any future mailings, simply follow the instructions in the e-mail to Unsubscribe. At times, OneShare.com will also use traditional avenues of contact using ground mail (or, snail mail) unless you have opted out of communication with OneShare.com. See the "Choice/Opt-Out" section below.

How Third Party Information Is Used

When a customer makes a purchase for someone other than themselves, information is collected on the person who the purchase is intended for (called the Recipient). Recipient information collected entails name, address, e-mail (if available and provided), and social security number (if available and provided). The Recipients information is solely used to fulfill the order request by the Purchaser.

OneShare.com institutes a website feature in which a person can send a referral message ("E-mail this site to a friend") to someone to notify a person of the OneShare.com website. This is solely a one time "invite" e-mail and information provided to send this e-mail (such as name and e-mail address) is not stored and kept.

Service Providers

We use VeriSign to process credit card transactions on our site. We share credit card information as necessary for the third party to provide this service. VeriSign is prohibited from using personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Choice/Opt-Out

OneShare.com hereby provides express disclosure that the user will automatically receive our newsletter and promotional material via both electronic and traditional methods at the point of collection.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter may opt-out by following the instructions in the newsletter. Each newsletter has an unsubscribe link. Clicking this link will automatically unsubscribe the user from further OneShare.com mailings. In addition, to deactivate your personal information, the user may also contact us by phone (1.888.777.6919), email, or postal mail (OneShare.com, 3450 Third Street, Building 1D, San Francisco, CA 94124).

Our Opt-Out page: TO UNSUBSCRIBE/REMOVE/OPT-OUT

Use Of Cookies

A cookie is a very small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web server. Cookies cannot be executed like programs or used as viruses, and the server that placed them can only read them. A cookie cannot access your hard drive and obtain personal information about you, unless you have supplied your information to the site delivering the cookie; it can only be used to store information that you have given the site (by filling out an online order form, for example). We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site

We use a third-party tracking service called Atlas that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site via newsletters, search engines, and datafeeds. It allows us to more accurately determine marketing ROI.

Cookies also tell us whether a user has visited us before. We use this information to foster improved service. When a user places an order, a session identifier (cookie) is created and your shopping cart information is stored. This information is cleared once the user finalizes the purchase at the time of check out. If the user does not check out, the session identifier and thus, contents of the user's shopping cart are stored for 45 days.

Most Web browsers allow you to customize your cookies settings. If you prefer to choose which sites you will accept cookies from, you can do so by following the directions below:

  • Internet Explorer 5.0 and later
    Go to "Tools", then "Internet Options". Click on "Security", then choose "Internet", then "Custom Level". Scroll down to "Cookies" and select the option you would like to use.
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.0
    Go to "Tools", then "Options". Select "Privacy" from the left, then click on the "Cookies Area".
  • Netscape Communicator 4.0
    Go to "Edit," then "Preferences." Click on "Advanced" and select your preferences in the "Cookies" area.
  • Internet Explorer 4.0
    Go to "View," then "Internet Options." Click on "Advanced," then scroll down to the yellow exclamation mark under "Security" and select the option you would like to use.

How To Update Your Personal Information

Registered Users and Customers can update their information at any time by contacting OneShare.com Operations Department directly via email or, via telephone at 1.888.777.6919 (Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm Pacific Standard Time).

Notification Of Changes

If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via e-mail. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. However, if you have opted out of all communication with OneShare.com, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be contacted, nor will your personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post the notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also e-mail users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Data Security: Site Certificate Information

OneShare.com only allows secure browsers to access the secure areas of our site. All of our pages that have forms collecting personal information for the ordering process are secure. When the browser is in secure mode, you can tell by the icon displayed at the bottom of the window. For example:

  • In Netscape Navigator 1.x, 2.x and 3.x, you will see a picture of a solid key
  • In Netscape Communicator or Netscape Navigator4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer, you will see a picture of a closed lock.
In addition, the Web site address of a secure page will start with "https" instead of "http".

Every secure page on our Web site is certified by RSA Data Security, Inc. To view the certificate, click on the image of the closed lock or solid key on the bottom of the window. A window displaying the security information will pop up. Click, "subject" to verify that you are on the OneShare.com site. Click, "issuer" to verify the site certification authority.

Protection Of Stored Information

OneShare.com uses the latest technology to protect our computer systems and the information on them.

We store the information we collect: name, address, phone, contact preferences, social security numbers, financial information, and e-mail address in a secure database. We take several steps to insure the data is safely stored. First, our order form is totally encrypted using SSL 3.0, 128-bit. Additionally, the computers are stored in a highly secure building and monitored 24-hours a day. We also use a firewall to prevent unauthorized users from getting access to our systems.

Links Provided Via the OneShare.com Website

Users of our site are notified when they link from our site to others. Linking to another site opens a second window. The OneShare.com website provides links, in its sole discretion, to other sites on the World Wide Web for the convenience of its customers. These sites have not been reviewed by OneShare.com staff and are maintained by third parties over whom OneShare.com staff exercises no control, and accordingly OneShare.com staff expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content, the accuracy of the information, and the privacy policies of these third-party Web sites.

Providing You With Customer Service

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with OneShare.com in general, please contact us:

Email: Privacy Questions
We will respond within 24 business hours of receipt.

Telephone: 1.800.777.6919 (between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., PST)

Mail:
Send your comments, questions or requests to:

One Share Of Stock, Inc.
d.b.a. OneShare.com
3450 Third Street, Building 1D
San Francisco, CA 94124

We will respond to written requests within 24 business hours of receipt.

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy on their effective date.

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