At H₂bid, the privacy and protection of your personal and financial information is very important to us. That's why we've created this privacy statement, which describes our information gathering and dissemination practices. It is the best way we can demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. H₂bid uses your personal information for the following purposes:

1. Building your H₂bid account
2. Personalizing delivery of the content contained within our Web site
3. Facilitating restricted promotions and marketing efforts
4. Personalizing content and information sent when you subscribe to our e-mail services

When you register with H₂bid, we ask for your name, company name and e-mail address. We use this to contact you when necessary. H₂bid may also send you occasional promotional e-mail messages should we begin to offer new services that we believe you may be interested in.

We may also use information from your account based on your site visits to generate statistics and aggregate reports for internal use, which may be shown to affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees, successors, and partners. These statistics and aggregate reports will not contain any personally identifiable information and your identity will be kept anonymous. Certain confidential information -- such as your password -- will not be disclosed in any of these reports.

If you sign up for a service we offer, and decide to pay by credit card, the information you give -- such as your credit card number, purchase information, and contact information -- is provided to the banking merchant. Credit card numbers are not kept or stored in any of H₂ bid's databases. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties, except to the extent necessary to provide you with a requested service, under circumstances required by law, or -- in limited cases -- to our business partners as outlined in this policy.

You will not be contacted directly by any third party as a result of your relationship with H₂ bid, unless you have specifically approved such contact.

Our site has stringent security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control.

When you transmit credit card information to complete a purchase or verify data, we always transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use the industry standard 128-bit SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

In addition to our encryption standards, your H₂bid account information is password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. Please do not disclose your password to anyone. Always remember to sign out of your H₂ bid account and close your browser window when your transactions are complete. This helps keep your account safe.

While we strive to prevent your personal information, no data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, H₂ bid cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information during transmission to or from our site, and you submit information to us at your own risk. However, we do our best to ensure the highest level of security on all of our systems.

We are committed to providing personalized products and services to you. In order to do so, H₂bid may use cookies to store a unique identifier. A cookie is defined as a small amount of text that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. If your browser is configured to enable cookies, then your browser adds the text sent to the appropriate file. Your browser will only allow H₂bid to read cookies that came from our web servers. This means that other web sites will not be able to use any information that H₂bid stores on your computer as a cookie.

H₂ bid may use cookies to tell us that you have visited our site before, to automatically display information you have requested. They are used to help us simplify and enhance your experience while on our site.

Our website may also contain links to other sites. H₂ bid is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites.

H₂bid is a trademark and may not be used or reproduced without our written consent.

If we make changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Web site for you to review.