When you sign-up for a Beirut.com account:

We may do the following:

1. Collect personally identifiable and demographic information about you.

2. Provide industry-standard security to protect your personal information while it is in our possession. If you use your credit card to pay for our services, then your credit card information will be encrypted using SSL technology. However, we will not store your credit card on our servers.

3. Give you access to review and edit your personal and demographic information while it is in our possession.

4. Send you service announcements notifying you of any new products or updates to the service. We may use your alternate E-mail address and home address to ensure that you receive important information about your account or information you have requested.

5. Give you the choice of "opting in" to receive third party mailings.

6. Make it easy for you to unsubscribe from any Beirut.com-owned mailing list by following directions at the bottom of any e-mail that you receive from us unless it is vital to the operation of your account).

We will not do the following:

1. Send you unsolicited commercial e-mail (SPAM).

2. Without your explicit permission,

a. Share your personal information or demographic data
b. Give anyone access to your e-mail,
or c. Open or read messages in your account:

unless, we believe, in good faith, that such release is necessary to:

a. Comply with the law
b. Enforce or apply the terms of our user agreement,
or c. Protect the rights, property, or safety of Beirut.com, our users, or the public.

3. Share any data with outside parties that would identify a specific user.

4. Contact you via e-mail or any other method to ask you for your password. Do not share your password with anyone; you should only enter it directly into our Web site.

5. Contact you via e-mail or any other method to ask you for your credit card information. You should only enter this information directly into our Web site.

6. Materially change how we use your personally identifiable information without placing a prominent notice on our Web site first.

For any questions or comments concerning Beirut.com's privacy policy, please write to support@beirut.com.

Last updated September 4, 2002