At Emergis.com ("Emergis"), the privacy and security of our registered members is of the utmost importance. Emergis is committed to protecting your personal and corporate information. Accordingly, Emergis has adopted this Privacy Policy and maintains standards and procedures to prevent misuse of the information that you may provide to us. This is the Privacy Policy of Emergis and describes the information gathered from visitors to our web site and users of the Bell NCS Eprocurement (OTPG), and our use of such information. Our Privacy Policy is designed to let you know what happens to information when you visit our web site. This site serves two primary purposes, allowing you to learn about Emergis, and allowing you to transact with other businesses through the business-to-business e-commerce Emergis OTPG service when you choose to become a subscriber in the Emergis OTPG.

1. TYPE OF WEB SITE USER
   Depending what you do at our site will determine the information that is collected by Emergis. There are three types of users of the site:
   
   

   1. Visitors:  Anyone can visit the Emergis.com site in order to review information about Emergis and its services (such a user is referred to hereinafter as a Visitor).
      
      

   2. Registration:  Anyone can register in the Emergis OTPG. Registration offers you a limited subset of Emergis OTPG functionality, and does not entail any connection to a particular buying group. In order to register in the Emergis OTPG, you must provide your name, address, email address, User Name and Password. Registration tells Emergis that you are interested in the Emergis OTPG, and is the first step in the enrollment process. Registered members have access to industry analysis, whitepapers, and tutorials etc., but do not have visibility to other members of the Emergis OTPG or access to the specialized tools and methodologies available to enrolled members (such a user is referred to hereinafter as a Registrant).
      
      

   3. Enrollment:  Enrolling as a subscriber in the Emergis OTPG entails defining corporate contact and billing information, setting up and maintaining users and security levels, specifying catalog and purchase order formats, and determining your organization's technical infrastructure to enable complete back-end integration. You will be asked to provide corporate contact, billing, and business information (e.g., DUNS, UDDI, etc.), technical infrastructure details, user security settings, and a valid buying group key (such a user is referred to hereinafter as a Subscriber).
      
      

2. INFORMATION GATHERED AND PURPOSE OF COLLECTION
   The information we collect is used to enable you to use the Emergis OTPG service, to enhance your visit to the site, for internal tracking and site improvement purposes and to enable us to contact you. Emergis does not collect any more information about you than is required by law, is otherwise necessary to provide a high level of service efficiently to you, or is necessary to make our Emergis OTPG as dynamic and useful as possible. The information you provide allows us to conduct our business with you and also allows you to conduct business with other registered members of the Emergis OTPG, if you choose to become a Subscriber. As noted above, depending what you do at our site will determine the type and amount of information that is collected by Emergis:
   
   

   1. Visitors:
      When you simply visit the Emergis web site to view information about Emergis and the Emergis OTPG, you do not need to provide us with information about yourself. However, the IP (internet protocol) address through which your computer has connected to the internet is automatically recorded by the software at this web site. The web site software also collects information concerning your internet browser, operating system, hardware platform, when you visited the site, and the last web page you were at before you came to this site. In some circumstances, your user profile is also relayed to this web site and recorded by the software. Information contained in your user profile can include your real name, home address, work address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number. Also recorded while you are at this site, are the pages you visited at the site, the time you spent there, information you provided and obtained, names and addresses of all files either uploaded or downloaded. We may use cookie technology to recognize you when you return to our site in order to enhance your visit to the site and our provision of service to you. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's hard drive by the computer of the web site that the user is visiting. A cookie includes identifying information that may be used on subsequent visits such as passwords, account numbers, information about favorite pages, etc. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this may affect your ability to utilize our site to the same extent as a user who accepts cookies.
      
      

   2. Registrants:
      In order to register in the Emergis OTPG, you must provide your name, address, email address, User Name and Password. If you do not wish to disclose such information and to accept the Terms of Use of the Emergis website and the Emergis OTPG, please do not register in the Emergis OTPG. When you register for the Emergis OTPG, we request: administrative contact name, address, phone, fax, e-mail, and password. Emergis's primary purpose for collecting this information is to (1) allow us to provide services to you, conduct our business with you, and inform you about other products and services that might be of interest to you; (2) satisfy legal reporting requirements; and (3) administer our internal operations, e.g., ensure proper billing, measure consumer interest in our various services. Information which is marked as optional, is not required but is indicated as optional because this information helps us to better address the needs and interests of our Registrants.
      
      

   3. Subscribers:

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      Enrolling as a Subscriber in the Emergis OTPG entails defining corporate contact and billing information, setting up and maintaining users and security levels, specifying catalog and purchase order formats, and determining your organization's technical infrastructure to enable complete back-end integration. During enrollment, Emergis requests your name, address, e-mail, phone and fax numbers, user ID, password, payment information, catalog and content format. If you do not wish to disclose such information and to accept the Terms of Use of the Emergis web site and the Emergis OTPG, please do not subscribe in the Emergis OTPG. Emergis's primary purpose for collecting this information is to (1) allow us to provide services to you, conduct our business with you, and inform you about other products and services that might be of interest to you; (2) satisfy legal reporting requirements; and (3) administer our internal operations, e.g., ensure proper billing, measure consumer interest in our various services. Information which is marked as optional, is not required but is indicated as optional because this information helps us to better address the needs and interests of our subscribers.
      
      

3. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
   Emergis does not share any personally identifiable information with third parties except in the following circumstances:

   1. You provide prior consent to such disclosure.

   2. You request such disclosure.

   3. Such disclosure is necessary to provide services which you have requested, i.e. participation in the Emergis OTPG. For example, it is necessary to disclose your information to any person with whom you transact through the Emergis OTPG in order to facilitate your transactions.

   4. Disclosure of your information must be made to a third party network to which the Emergis OTPG is connected for purposes of the proper functioning of the Emergis OTPG service and to facilitate your transactions through the Emergis OTPG.

   5. Emergis is compelled to disclose such information by a government authority, regulatory body, or under subpoena or similar government request.

   6. Emergis is otherwise required to disclose your information by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary or appropriate to conform to or comply with any law, regulation or court order.

   7. It is necessary for Emergis to disclose your information in order to protect the personal safety of users of our site or the public.

   8. It appears that activities which are illegal or in violation of our terms of service are occurring (whether or not the disclosure is required by law).

   9. It is necessary for Emergis to disclose your information in order to protect and defend its rights or property or that of its affiliates or partners (whether or not the disclosure is required by law).

   10. It is necessary for Emergis to disclose your information to a service or technology provider in order to provide and maintain technical operation of the Emergis OTPG, protect the security of our site or correct technical problems, subject to obtaining prior assurances of confidentiality.

   11. It is necessary for Emergis to disclose your information to independent accountants, lawyers and other advisors and representatives to advise Emergis in connection with the operation of the Emergis business and the Emergis OTPG, subject to obtaining prior assurances of confidentiality from such advisors and representatives.

   Emergis may use your information to generate statistics and aggregate reports for internal use and for sharing with third parties for providing information about the Emergis OTPG and for marketing and advertising. These statistics and aggregate reports will not contain any personally identifiable information, and your identity will be kept anonymous. We may also use aggregate and visitor data for enhancing the operation, functionality, content, appearance and capabilities of the Emergis web site.

   While Emergis may make reasonable efforts to have affiliated networks comply with the restrictions contained in this Privacy Policy, Emergis cannot be responsible for their actions. In addition, the Emergis OTPG contains links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties over which Emergis has no control. Any information you provide to third party web sites will be governed under the terms of such web site's Privacy Statement and Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy only applies to Emergis's web site and the Emergis OTPG and Emergis is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the web sites to which it links or for the privacy practices or the content of affiliated networks.

4. HOW LONG IS THE INFORMATION KEPT?
   Any information that you provide to Emergis, including emails sent to Emergis, will be stored for reference purposes. We will archive such information for a maximum period of 7 years, at which time your emails and all other information about you will be deleted from our subscriber database permanently. Please note that it may be impossible to delete your information completely without some residual information remaining in backups.
   
   

5. SECURITY MEASURES
   We implement security measures to prevent the loss, alteration and misuse of information collected from you. The collected information is subject to various procedures and technological controls, consistent with legal rules and the demands of customer service. The information is stored on Emergis's secure private servers. We use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to enable the encryption of potentially sensitive information such as your name and address, and critically sensitive information such as a credit card number. All information is collected within a secure page, encrypted and transmitted to our secure database. When you create user login IDs and choose passwords, Emergis maintains internal security of this information. However, you are responsible for maintaining the external confidentiality of this information. If it is compromised, you must notify Emergis as soon as possible. While we have taken steps to minimize the security risk, since 100% confidentiality and security is not yet possible over the Internet, we assume no liability for any damages you may suffer as a result of interception, alteration, or misuse of information transmitted over the Internet.
   
   

6. ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
   We have procedures to help you make sure that your information is accurate, current and complete. We also have procedures to respond to your requests to correct or update inaccurate information or remove old information in a timely manner. You can update or modify your user profile at any time after registration. Please send an email or a fax to the contact information on the site with a copy of the current information that you would like updated. As a registrant or subscriber in the Emergis OTPG, you can directly change some of your information by signing on and modifying the information. In the event that you have communicated either by fax or email, you will then be sent an email acknowledging receipt of your request.
   
   

7. YOUR USE OF OTHERS' INFORMATION
   In order to facilitate interaction among users of the Emergis OTPG, our service may allow you to access certain information about other users of the Emergis OTPG. By using this site as a Visitor or Registrant and by accepting our Terms of Use when you become a Subscriber, you agree to treat information about other users of the Emergis OTPG in strict accordance with such Terms of Use. In all cases, you must give such users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review the information you have collected about them. In addition, you must not disclose any information about another user to a third party without Emergis's consent and the consent of such other user after adequate prior written notice is provided to such user, except in the circumstances listed above (under Disclosure of Information).
   
   

8. EMERGIS EMPLOYEES AND PRIVACY
   Emergis informs its employees about the importance of confidentiality and privacy. Emergis gives access to your information only to those employees who need access to it within the scope of their jobs.
   
   

9. CONTACTING EMERGIS
   If you have any questions or comments regarding your Privacy Policy or concerns about the information-handling practices of Emergis, please contact us at:
   
   

   Privacy Administrator
   Emergis.com
   2305 Wyecroft Road
   Oakville, Ontario  L6L 6R2 Canada
   Telephone: (905) 465-1875
   Fax: (905) 465-0741
   E-mail: info@procure.com

   Emergis reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if significant changes are made to this Privacy Policy, a notice will be posted on this web site and we will take reasonable steps to notify our Subscribers of changes to this Privacy Policy. By providing any of the information asked for through this web site, you are expressly consenting to and have knowledge of the collection, use and disclosure of this information, as identified in this Privacy Policy.