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Contents:

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED

2. USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

3. USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING DEVICES

4. SECURITY POLICY

5. USER ACCESS AND CONTROL OF DATA

6. CHILDREN UNDER 14

7. CHANGES TO POLICY

LegalStudio takes the privacy of its users seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our users while providing a personalised and valuable service. This Privacy Policy statement explains the data processing practices of LegalStudio.com Ltd. And is followed by the company, its affiliates and subsidiaries.

If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact our Privacy Officer by e-mail at information@legalstudio.com. Please title your email “Privacy Enquiry”.

Our site contains links to third party sites which are not subject to this privacy policy. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of any such sites that you visit.

1. Information Collected

Personal information is collected by LegalStudio.com Ltd.

Company: LegalStudio.com Ltd.

Registered Office: 1005 Universal Trade Centre, 3 Arbuthnot Road, Central, Hong Kong

We collect personally identifiable information about you (your "Data") through:

• the use of enquiry, request and registration forms

• when you purchase any of our services or publications

• the provision of your details to us either online or offline.

• Your visits to our site including but not limited to traffic data, location data, and other communication data, and the resources that you access

The elements of your Data that we collect may include:

• your name, company name, contact/delivery details, email address;

• credit card details for the purpose of paying for your order;

• your type of business, your business title;

• the date and time of your order or service request;

• your history of product and service orders with LegalStudio; and

• payment details such as credit card information

• market research data such as readership patterns and interest areas.

If you are a LegalStudio.com subscriber we may also collect information regarding your use of the service.

2. Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may use your Data for purposes which may include:

• providing our users with a personalised service

• processing orders, registrations and enquiries

• conducting market research surveys

• providing you with information about products and services we offer or we feel may interest you

• ensuring that our site is presented in an effective manner

• allowing you to participate in interactive features of our service(s)

• notifying you about changes to our service(s).

We may disclose your information to selected third party suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf, successors in title to our business or in accordance with a properly executed court order or otherwise required to do so by law.

We also use information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified):

• to build up marketing profiles

• to aid strategic development

• to manage our relationship with advertisers

• to audit usage of the site.

3. Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Devices

We use cookies to help personalise your use of our sites. A cookie is a small piece of information which is sent to your computer's hard drive by the web server so that the website can remember who you are. This information may include information relating to your use of our sites, information about your computer such as the computer's IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our site via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page. If you are a registered user or subscriber this may include your name and email address for verification purposes.

We use information from cookies for purposes which may include:

• identifying returning users, registrants and subscribers and to allow subscribers to be presented with a personalised version of the site

• enabling you to move more easily around our site

• tracking your use of our site to better develop our sites in accordance with your requirements

• building up a demographic profile

You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time however this will mean that any settings such as your stored username and password will have to be reset. You can set your internet browser so that it will not allow cookies to be stored on your computer. This may reduce functionality of the site, prevent access to subscriber-only areas of the site and mean that certain features or content will not be available to you. Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can be found on http://www.allaboutcookies.org under the "manage cookies" section. Alternatively go to the help menu within your internet browser.

From time to time we may permit 3^rd party companies to set cookies on LegalStudio sites for purposes which may include market research, serving advertisements, revenue tracking or to improve functionality of the site.

We may use pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These files enable internet advertising companies to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. The information collected is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

4. Security Policy

LegalStudio has appropriate measures in place to ensure that our users' Data is protected against unauthorised access or use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. User Data may be transferred outside the LegalStudio group to data processors such as fulfilment houses but they will act only on our instructions to provide the services required.

5. User Access and Control of Data

If you wish to amend any of the Data which we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, please contact information@legalstudio.com or visit the "Contact Us" section of our website.

6. Children Under 14

We do not intentionally collect any information on children under 14 years of age. We will undertake to delete any details of such users where a parent or guardian has notified us that any such details have been obtained.

7. Changes to this Policy

This policy became effective 1 December 2002 and was last updated 2 October 2007. From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy statement to reflect any changes to our privacy practices in accordance with changes to legislation, best practice or website enhancements.