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Privacy

Masaaki Pearls recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by visitors of this Website. We have created the following policy guidelines with a fundamental respect for our visitors' right to privacy to guide our relationships with our visitors.

Information Collected by World Gold Council
Masaaki Pearls collects information about visitors during their registration for this Website their participation in certain activities, including contests and polls; and through the use of cookies. When visitors request pages from our server, our Web server automatically collects some information about the visitors, including their IP addresses. These addresses are used by computers on the network to send the requested pages to visitors.

Use of Information
Masaaki Pearls will not reveal any personal information that visitors provide to us to any third party without their permission.

Masaaki Pearls uses visitors' IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Website. We also use it to gather broad demographic information about our visitors in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify visitors personally. We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage data to provide profiles, in aggregate form, about our visitors and their preferences in the content of the site and advertising. We may share this composite information with our advertisers to help them better understand our services, but Masaaki Pearls does not give advertisers information about individual visitors.

Using e-mail addresses provided at registration or otherwise, Masaaki Pearls periodically sends out e-mail newsletters and promotional e-mail to our visitors about services and publications offered by this Website and its advertisers. Visitors can indicate that they do not wish to receive e-mail information from Masaaki Pearls or its advertisers. Third parties will not contact our visitors through the use of our e-mail newsletter lists except through advertisements within the newsletters themselves, or unless visitors ask to be placed on a list to receive e-mail from our advertisers on subjects of interest.

This Website uses cookies to deliver content specific to visitors' interests and to honour their preferences. This information is used to assist us in creating a site that will serve the needs of our visitors.

Upon request, Masaaki Pearls will remove visitors (and their information) from our database or permit them to "opt-out" of any further e-mail newsletters or contact. Although Masaaki Pearls does not specifically seek to obtain any information from children, there are certain areas of our website that children may visit. We urge children only to give us any information after they have discussed it with their parents.

General
Masaaki Pearls is not responsible for the content or the privacy polices of websites to which it may provide links or the websites of its advertisers.

Masaaki Pearls uses all reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure and to disclose such information only to responsible third parties after permission from the visitor.