Here's the fast track summary of our privacy statement:

• Our web site does not use cookies itself, however some of the advertisers and suppliers listed may choose to do so.
• When subscribing our occasional email bulletin, we only ask for your email address.
• We don't rent, sell or distribute subscriber information to anybody. We never share your information except to carry out the services you request. Period.
• You can unsubscribe from the email bulletin at any time you like. You have complete control over your subscriptions. The instructions to remove yourself from the bulletin are given at the bottom of every issue. Follow those instructions and our automated system will handle the rest.

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for the CheaperOffice.com web site and email bulletin.

If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact our Manager, by sending email to manager@cheaperoffice.com with full details of your concerns.

CheaperOffice.com is the sole owner of the information collected on the CheaperOffice.com web site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. CheaperOffice.com collects information from our users at several different points on our websites. As a long-standing policy we only ask you for information that is necessary for us to provide services to you

Our free email bulletins are at the core of what we do, for most people it is our only point of contact with them. Therefore we restrict the information we request from you to a bare minimum.

If a user wishes to subscribe to our bulletins, we only ask for your email address. We may also store your name if you subscribe via email and your name is included in your email message header.

Your email address is only used by us to send the email bulletins you have requested.

Your email address is not otherwise retrievable by us in the normal course of business.

We send all new subscribers a welcoming email to verify their email address. That message prominently includes information on how to stop receiving that email newsletter.

If a user's personally identifiable information changes (ie email address), or if a user no longer desires our service, then the user has full control over the information we store.

Removing or unsubscribing from an email newsletter can be done via email. Current instructions for this are provided at the bottom of each email newsletter that we send.

It is vital that any request for unsubscribing is done at exactly the same email address as originally subscribed -- the exact address stored on our list system is displayed in the 'Administrivia' section at the bottom of each of our email bulletins sent to you.

Since the subscription system is fully automated and secure you must use one of the several methods outlined to unsubscribe. Sending requests to other email addresses related to CheaperOffice.com (including replying to an email bulletin) will not be received and acted upon.

A confirmation email of your unsubscription from an email newsletter will be sent to your email address. If you do not receive that confirmation then the request to unsubscribe has been unsuccessful, please check carefully the email address used.

CheaperOffice.com does not use personal information for purposes not directly related to our site or sending of our email bulletins.

Users who no longer wish to receive one or more of our bulletins may opt-out of receiving these communications by using the web site or email methods shown at the bottom of each issue of our email bulletins. An email acknowledgement of the removal the list of subscribers will be sent to the email address.

The mechanism for removing or unsubscribing from an email newsletter is fully automated. You must follow the instructions given at the bottom of the most current issue you have received in order to be unsubscribed. Taking other actions (such as replying to an ezine sent to you or sending email requests to other addresses) will not be read by anyone and will not unsubscribe you.

From time-to-time we offer prizes to our readers. Some contests need your participation to enter via email (eg sending in your favorite tips) while others are random drawings from the list of current ezine subscribers and therefore requires no separate registration or entry.

Participation in these contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose information. If you are chosen as a winner then our Manager will email you to request contact information (such as name, address and phone number) so we can send your prize to you. Contact information will be used to notify the winners and distribute prizes only.

Contest winners will need to supply us with their name and shipping address upon a specific request from an authorized staff member of CheaperOffice.com (usually the Manager). This address information is only used for the purpose of delivering your prize and is only held temporarily in private storage at our office. You can review or correct name / address that you can given for this purpose by sending email to manager@cheaperoffice.com

The public announcement of contest winners will only show an abbreviated name and broad location (ie city or state / country).

From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys. We have not undertaken a user survey to date but may do so in the future.

Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as postal/zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify any winners and award prizes only. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and email bulletins.

Registration is not required to use any part of the CheaperOffice.com web sites.

If you wish to receive our free email bulletin you are required to supply to your email address only.

CheaperOffice.com does not accept paid orders for any products

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user.

The CheaperOffice.com web site and email bulletin do NOT use cookies.

Some of our advertisers may use cookies on our site and email bulletins. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We use an outside company to dispatch our email bulletin. This company does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes

Our web sites and our email bulletins contain links to other sites. Please be aware that CheaperOffice.com is 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 and email bulletin

Our websites take every precaution to protect our users' information. If users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

All of our users' information is held by restricted access in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. For the vast majority of customers we hold little, if any, information about them, apart from the subscriber's email address and possibly their name

We may in the future 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 the web site only.

To date we have not permitted our services to be used for collection of information by outside parties and it is not anticipated that we will do so. Users of our site would always be notified if their information was 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.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our privacy related web pages 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.

This policy formalizes the practices of CheaperOffice.com since it's inception in 2001, for the purposes of any dispute resolution this privacy policy is effective on 20^th May 2001