privacy policy

Our privacy policy is described below, in an effort to provide your company with an understanding of how information provided to Special Markets, Inc will be used.
If our policy should change, we will list the changed policy on this site. Special Markets, Inc publishes in print and electronic formats business information provided by its members to listed members of Special Markets, Inc and other entities that offer products and services. When you visit our Web site, you provide us with information about your company that we collect and may use and/or share with others for marketing purposes, including informing your company of new products, services and trade shows that are designed to help you grow your business.

SECURITY
Your payment and personal information are always safe. The information you provide to an SpecialMkts.com Web site covered by this policy is protected in transit by using a network protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). SSL is the industry standard technology for secure online transactions. A simple way to know your transmission is protected is by referencing the URL. If it starts with https://, you can be assured that it is using SSL. Transactions are processed only from secure browsers. These browsers encrypt the information sent using SSL, which scrambles the data to make it extremely difficult for anyone who intercepts the information to read it.

REMINDER: In the event of an unauthorized use of your credit or debit card, you must promptly notify the card issuer pursuant to its reporting rules and procedures.

SAFEGUARDING INFORMATION
The protection of your personal information is important to SpecialMkts.com, and as a result, we do not accept payment via email. SpecialMkts.com protects against unauthorized disclosures by limiting access only to our employees who need the information to do their jobs.

TERMS OF USE

Internet Terms & Conditions of Use: Please read this document carefully before accessing or using the site. By accessing or using the site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth below. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, do not access or use the site. Special Markets, Inc. may modify this agreement at any time, and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting of the modified agreement on the site. You agree to review the agreement periodically to be aware of such modifications and your continued access or use of the site shall be deemed your acceptance of the modified agreement.

APPLICABLE LAWS
Special Markets, Inc. operates this site. By using this site, both you and Special Markets, Inc.  agree that the statues and laws of the Commonwealth of Indiana, without giving effect to any choice or conflicts of law, will apply to all matters relating to use of this site. For all actions at law, suits in equity or other judicial proceedings concerning any aspect of this site, you and Special Markets, Inc. agree and consent to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the Court of Common Pleas of Marion County, Indiana and/or the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Indiana.

USE OF COMPANY DIRECTORIES
The information contained in any directories that may be provided on this site is provided for business lookup purposes, and is not to be used for marketing or telemarketing applications, or for purposes of creating any database(s). This information may not be copied, placed in any database or re-distributed and is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Special Markets, Inc.  or any of its affiliates will not be liable in any way with regard to such information. You may not data scrape this site or any site linked to this site.

INTERACTIVE FEATURES
This site may include a variety of features, such as bulletin boards, chat rooms, interaction between users, and other features, such as personalized home pages and email services which allow users to communicate with others. Special Markets, Inc. or its affiliates do not control the messages, information or files that you or others may provide through the site and is not responsible for any messages, information or file. It is a condition of your use of the site that you do not:

• • Take any action that restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the site.
• • Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable information of any kind, including without limitation, any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law.
• • Post or transmit any information, software or other material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder.
• • Post or transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes, or which contains advertising.
• • Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity.
• • Post or transmit any material that contains a virus or corrupted data.
• • Delete or revise any material posted by any other person or entity.
• • Manipulate or otherwise display the site by framing or similar navigational technology.
• • Upload, post, e-mail or transmit information that promotes pyramid schemes, chain letters or disruptive commercial messages, or anything that is prohibited by law.

You and your company agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Special Markets, Inc.  and its affiliates and respective officers, directors, employees, agent licensors, agents and any third party information providers to the site from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorney fees resulting from you or your company's improper use of access to this site.
Special Markets, Inc.  has no obligation to monitor any bulletin boards, chat rooms, or other areas of the site through which you and other users can provide information or material. However, Special Markets, Inc., in its sole discretion may at any time, disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, to reduce its potential legal exposure, or to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in the sole discretion of Special Markets, Inc.  are objectionable.

PASSWORDS & SECURITY
To use certain features of the site, you will need a username and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You will not provide your username and/or password to any other person. If you or someone within your company does so, you and your company agree to bear all risks and costs for doing so. You agree that you will notify Special Markets, Inc.  immediately if there is an unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and will ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. Special Markets, Inc.  is not liable for any loss or damage arising from you or your company's failure to protect your password or account information. You and your company agree not to share any content with a non-subscriber.
You and your company agree not to bypass or circumvent the security measures on this site.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Special Markets, Inc.  shall not be responsible for any claim or damages arising from or connected with an inaccurate or incomplete information to which you have access. Special Markets, Inc.  and its affiliates shall not be responsible for any application of any information, pricing or results, intended or unintended, obtained through the use of this site. Special Markets, Inc.  and its affiliates shall not be responsible for the corruption of any of your data, software or equipment when using the site. THE USE OF THIS SITE AND THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND INFORMATION ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS," AND SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. MAKES NO, AND DISCLAIMS ALL, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WIRTTEN OR ORAL, ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, USAGE OR TRADE, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INTERFERENCE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY FOR INFORMATION, MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY AND EXPLICITLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, ANY AND ALL PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES UNDER, IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. OR ANY SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. INTERNET SITE ARE PROVIDED WITH ALL FAULTS, AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND EFFORT IS WITH YOU.

USE OF THE SITE
YOU AND YOUR COMPANY UNDERSTAND THAT SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT FILES OR OTHER MATERIAL AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING THROUGH THIS SITE WILL BE FREE OF INFECTION OR VIRUSES, WORMS, TROJAN HORSES OR OTHER CODES THAT MANIFEST CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES. YOU AND YOUR COMPANY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING SUFFICIENT PROCEDURES AND CHECKPOINTS TO SATISFY YOUR PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCURACY OF DATA INPUT AND OUTPUT, AND FOR MAINTAINING A MEANS EXTERNAL TO THE SITE FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ANY LOST DATA.
You may not use this site in any manner that gives you or any other person access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of information.
You may not copy, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, translate, modify or make derivative works of the material on this site, in whole or in part.  You may not disclose, rent sell, publish, assign, lease sublicense, transfer or market the information on this site in any manner.
When using the site you may not engage in: scraping, data mining, harvesting, screen scraping, data aggregating, and indexing.  You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access this site for any purpose without the express written permission of a company Special Markets, Inc. vice-president.
You will not interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the site or any activities conducted on the site.  You will not take any action that, in our sole discretion, imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. OR ITS AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY WITH RESPECT TO ITS INTERNET SITES OR OTHERWISE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, WHETHER INCURRED OR SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OR UNAVAILABILITY OF THE INTERENET SITES OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF SPECIAL MARKETS, INC. OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES HEREUNDER FOR ANY CAUSE EXCEED $100.00. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION OR CLAIMS IN THE AGGREGATE INCUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, MISREPRESENTATION AND/OR OTHER TORTS. IF THERE ARE MULTIPLE CLAIMS RESULTING FROM THE ACTIVITIES OCCURING ON A PARTICULAR DAY OR RESULTING FROM THE SAME SERIES OF EVENTS, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED $1,000.00.

COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS
The material on this site is copyright and/or trademark protected. You may not reproduce, copy or redistribute the design or layout of this site or individual design elements on the site. Your company may not engage in data mining or similar types of activities. This site also contains trademarks of other companies. Those trademarks are the property of their respective owners. You may not use Special Markets, Inc. logos or other logos appearing on this site without the express written permission of Special Markets, Inc.  or the owner of the other logos. Reproduction, copying or redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials or design elements from this site is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of an Special Markets, Inc.  officer. You may not use any material on this site to operate a service bureau. If you use any logo appearing on this site, you are responsible for its use. If any portion of this site allows you to post information or comments and you do so, you are responsible for the content. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Special Markets, Inc., its affiliates, successors and assigns and the directors, officers, employees and agents of each of them with respect to any claim, demand, loss, cause of action, debt or liability, including reasonable attorney fees resulting from your use of any logo and/or for the postings of information or comments.
If you repeatedly violate copyright laws, your access to this site will be denied.
If you believe that information on this site infringes any intellectual property rights of another person, for example, copyright, please contact support@specialmkts.com.

LINKS
The site may provide, or third parties may provide, links to sites not operated by Special Markets, Inc.  or its affiliates. Consequently, Special Markets, Inc.  or its affiliates have no control over such sites. You acknowledge and agree that Special Markets, Inc.  and its affiliates are not responsible for such sites, do not endorse, and are not responsible for any material on those sites. You further acknowledge and agree that Special Markets, Inc.  and its affiliates are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of such sites

CAUSE OF ACTION
Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to this site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred. Special Markets, Inc.'s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties, or trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement. Special Markets, Inc.  may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.

Please call us for more information about the factories we represent. You may reach us through e-mail at support@specialmkts.com, or via phone at 317-595-6587 or fax at 317-595-9853. Our mailing address is: 7435 East 86th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46256.