Privacy & Terms

Please read the following terms and conditions and the privacy policy before using any of the online services available at this site.
This is a legally binding agreement between you and China Technology Development Group Corporation ("CTDC") setting forth the terms and conditions on which this site may be used. Use of any of the online services available at this site implies that you accept these terms and conditions.
If you do not accept these terms and conditions, please do not access this site or use any of the online services available at this site.

Privacy Policy
CTDC is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices for both online and offline data. If you give us personal information, we will treat it according to this policy.
You should read this privacy policy to ensure you understand CTDC's privacy practices. This policy covers the CTDC website and is applicable worldwide.

• Participation in discussion groups
• Collaboration efforts
• Registration to membership programs or newsletter subscriptions
• To provide registered users a more personalized and meaningful experience on the CTDC website.

Uses Of Your Personal Information:
We will only use your personal information in the way we specified when it was collected. We will not subsequently change the way your personal information is used without your consent. Some of the ways we may use your personal information include:

• To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content.
• To provide the ability to contact you, and provide you with shipping and billing information.
• To provide customer feedback and support.
• To provide contests, sweepstakes or other marketing promotional activities on the chinactdc.com or affiliate websites. Personal information may be collected to administer those programs
• To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better products and services to our customers and end users. Your completion of any questionnaires is voluntary.
• To understand more about you, so we can personalize newsletters and websites to your preferences.
• To allow you to forward information to another individual such as a friend or co-worker. CTDC does not store the personal information of the third party. We collect the information for the sole purpose of sending a one-time email. If you choose to use our referral service to inform a colleague or friend, we will only ask for a contact name and email address.
• To meet contract obligations.

Non-Personal Information Collection
In some instances, CTDC may collect non-personal (aggregate or demographic) data through cookies, web logs, and web beacons. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of the chinactdc.com website.

Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third-parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission to do so.
We may share your personal information within CTDC or any of our worldwide subsidiaries for purposes of data processing or storage.
We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. For example, if we need to ship something to you, we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction.
We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal information and other related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We may collect and possibly share personal information and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of CTDC's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We will ask you for your opt-in consent to share your personal information with a third party for any other reason.

Personalization
We may customize websites or newsletters for certain users based on the information they previously provided or that was collected through chinactdc.com websites in order to enhance the overall web experience.

Security Of Your Personal Information
CTDC is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit.
We recommend you to take every precaution in protecting your personal information when you are on the internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser.

Cookies
CTDC websites utilize cookies, although you can still access most of them even if you choose to disable cookies in your browser. Some websites will not allow you to complete certain activities if cookies are disabled. For example, our consumer e-commerce site uses session cookies and persistent cookies to process transactions. If you do not accept cookies, the associated shopping basket will not work and you will not be able to place an order.
We use multiple third parties to monitor web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-through', and other activities on CTDC's sites. Where authorized by CTDC, such third parties may use cookies, CTDC's web log files, web beacons, and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous aggregate statistics on CTDC's website visitors.
We also include web beacons in html-formatted e-mail newsletters in order to count how many newsletters (or particular articles, links, etc.) are being accessed.
Current versions of web browsers offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third party cookies. Search for "cookies" under your web browser's help menu for more information on cookie management features available to you.

Data Retention
CTDC will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

Disclaimer
All materials and services in this site and third-party sites to which it links are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The content published on this web site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein. CTDC and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in this web site at any time including changes to these terms and conditions. CTDC and/or its suppliers make no representations and, to the fullest extent allowed by law, disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose regarding the suitability of the information; the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of the content, services, products, text, graphics, links, or other items contained within this site, or the results obtained from accessing and using this site and/or the content contained herein. CTDC does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site, including bulletin boards or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. The user assumes the entire cost of all necessary maintenance, repair or correction.

Use Of This Site Is At Your Own Risk
This site may contain advice, opinions, and statements of various information providers and content providers. CTDC does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information provided by any information provider or content provider, or any user of this site or other person or entity. Reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, or other information shall also be at your own risk. Neither CTDC nor its affiliates, nor any of their respective agents, employees, information providers or content providers shall be liable to any user or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error, omission, interruption, timeliness, completeness, deletion, defect, failure of performance, computer virus, communication line failure, alteration of, or use of any content herein, regardless of cause, or for any damages resulting therefrom.
Prior to the execution of a purchase or sale or any security or investment, you are advised to consult with your broker or other financial advisor or other professionals as appropriate to verify pricing and other information. Neither CTDC, its affiliates, information providers or content providers shall have any liability for investment decisions based upon, or the results obtained from the information provided. Neither CTDC, its affiliates, information providers or content providers guarantee or warrant the timeliness, sequence, accuracy, or completeness of any such information. Nothing contained in this web site is intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, investment advice.

Linked Websites
Our websites may provide links to other third-party websites which are outside our control and not covered by this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) sites.

Copyright And Trademarks
CTDC owns the trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on this website. These may not be used without the written permission of the bank or the party owning these.
Materials on this site are protected by copyright. No part of these materials may be modified, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, copied, distributed or used in any other way for commercial or public purposes without CTDC's prior written consent.

No Warranties
Whilst every care has been taken in preparing the information materials contained in this website, such information and materials are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. In particular, no warranty regarding non-infringement, security, accuracy, fitness for a purpose or freedom from computer viruses is given in connection with such information and materials.
Email messages sent to CTDC over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure. CTDC is not responsible for any damages incurred by users if they send a message to tramford, or if tramford sends a message to them at their request, over the internet. CTDC is not responsible in any way for direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of this website.

Transmitting Over The Internet
Due to the nature of the internet transactions may be subject to interruption, transmission blackout, delayed transmission and incorrect data transmission. CTDC is not liable for malfunctions in communications facilities not under its control that may affect the accuracy or timeliness of messages and transactions you send.

Downloading
We do not represent or warrant that the site will be available and meet your requirements, that access will not be interrupted, that there will be no delays, failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information, that no viruses or other contaminating or destructive properties will be transmitted or that no damage will occur to your computer system. You have sole responsibility for adequate protection and back up of data and/or equipment and for undertaking reasonable and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses or other destructive properties. We make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, functionality or performance of any third party software that may be used in connection with the site.

Children's Privacy
CTDC does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that data from our systems. CTDC encourages parents and guardians to go online with their children. Here are a few tips to help make a child's online experience safer:

• Teach children never to give personal information (such as name, address, phone number, school, etc.) unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult.
• Know the sites your children are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
• Look for website privacy policies. Know how your child's information is treated.

Transfer Of Personal Information
We may transfer your personal information to CTDC, to any CTDC subsidiary worldwide or to third parties acting on our behalf for the purposes of processing or storage.

Policy Updates
The CTDC privacy policy has been recently updated. Last update:

August 4, 2008