• Your privacy is our highest concern.
• We will make every effort to protect your privacy.
• You will never be identified individually.
• Ziyara.com is the sole owner of the information collected at different
  points on this site.
• We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways
  different from what is disclosed in this statement.
• We may distribute general information about our users to advertisers or
  business associates, such as the number of people who visit, Female/Male
  distribution and the like.
• We will be clear about collecting personal information, and you have
  control over its use.
• We will stay up to date on privacy issues, and you may choose to be
  notified about any changes.
• You can inspect and edit your complete personal profile.

Registration

No personal information is required to use the Ziyara.com web site. You may choose to register with Ziyara.com to receive certain services and a personalized experience. If you wish to use these services, we will ask you to register with some personal information. For registration a user is
required to give contact information (such as name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, country). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. Your Ziyara.com member name is your community identity and is displayed when you post or reply to a message. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as education, marital status, occupation, income), and unique identifiers (such as social security number), so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site. Password is required for log-in to certain services on the web site, and you are the only one who has access to the password, keep it in a safe place, choose a password you can remember and difficult to guess (not something obvious), change it often. The e-mail address is used to send you registration confirmation or to contact you if necessary, or if you request information.

Children Privacy
We do not collect information from children, if information is collected unintentionally, we will delete this information.

Shopping
We may provide shopping for health related products from quality sellers, that we choose to meet our standards and the visitors expected confidence and quality of service. However, we are not responsible for the privacy policy of the sellers web site. Read their privacy policy carefully.

Order
We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.

E-mail comments and questions
e-mail comments and questions are the property of ziyara.com, we may quote these publicly, only after we obtain permission to do so.

Online Contests and Competitions
You have the option to participate or not to participate. Rules will be posted clearly. Some demographic information will be collected and varies between events. Any personal information collected may be used for marketing by sponsoring companies.

Cookies

• While visiting at Ziyara.com, we will do our utmost to protect you privacy
• At this point we do not use cookies at ziyara.com, but in the future we will use cookies as described below.
• Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.
• What are cookies? See explanation "BELOW" the section titled: "Use cookies at Ziyara.com?"

Use cookies at Ziyara.com?
At this point we do not use cookies at ziyara.com, but in the future we will use cookies to:

• To see to how many people are using our site.
• To log-in once per session, so you would not need to log-in at each "Members Only" page you encounter.
• To record your participation (but not your response) to online studies/surveys we may conduct.
• The Bulletin Boards and Chat use session cookies, so not to look up your log-in name and e-mail address on every page you view, and use a persistent cookie to tell when you last logged on to the Bulletin Boards to indicate which messages are new. The Chat uses a persistent cookie to save your settings, for example whether you use the HTML chat or the Java chat.
• A cookie is used to limit your exposure to a particular ad.

What are cookies?

• A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user, it can be an identification code, such as user ID, or a user preference.
• If your browser's  security option is set to accept cookies, any cookies that are sent to your browser are stored in your computer for a certain period of time. A session cookie only lasts for the browsing session. It will disappear when you end the browsing session or Shut Down the computer. A permanent cookie is stored on your computer until an expiration date or overwritten with newer cookies or manually removed.
• For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the user will not be able to participate in any of our Sweepstakes,
  Contests or monthly Drawings that take place. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
• Not using cookies is less secure than using cookies, as  your specific data needs to be sent to the web site whenever you browse a page. Cookies allows your data to stay on the web server, and the information exchanged over the Internet is your ID cookie.
• Some business partners use cookies on our site (example: advertisers) through Links or Banners. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. For example, advertisers use cookies to build a profile of you for marketing and advertising purposes, by cross referencing information you provide to other web sites, so you should be familiar with the privacy policies of other web sites you provide information to. But, while at Ziyara.com, we will do our utmost to protect you privacy.

Log Files

• Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique sequence of numbers assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). The same IP address or a different IP address may be assigned to your computer each time you connect to the Internet.
• IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.We use IP addresses to count the number of users who visit different pages. We collect information on which are the favorite pages, sites, tools, columns and discussions.
• We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site  and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Sharing

• This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
• Currently we do not share information with anyone.
• In the future we may share: aggregated demographic information with partners and advertisers.
• We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
• We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.
• These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we Ziyara.com are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level, gender) and preferences. Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. The information is analyzed without individual identification.

Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Ziyara.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Ziyara.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Security
This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information. A firewall is set to prevent unauthorized access to our systems. Membership information is on a server behind the firewall. When users submit sensitive information via the web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL(Secure Socket Layer). While on a secure page, such as an order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our office. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers ' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage. If you have any questions about the security at our web site, you can send an email to privacy@ziyara.com

Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and user-name, if they choose to participate in the "Members Only" areas. Members, occasionally receive information on products or special deals. Members may not want to receive these types of communications, so please see our choice and opt-out below.

Site and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.

Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or by mailing our Customer Support.

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example, our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists. Users who no longer wish to receive our promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at privacy@ziyara.com. Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Privacy References

Center for Privacy and Democracy 
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
CERT Coordination Center
Junkbuster
Kidz Privacy
FTC Privacy Initiative
Privacy International
Global Internet Liberty Campaign