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Privacy Policy and Terms of Use


Effective May 4, 2007

Tri-8, Inc., DBA MyLaptopGPS, MyLaptopGPS.com, 
SafeBeacon GPS, SafeBeaconGPS.com, SafeRegistry, 
SafeRegistry.com and its subdomains (the "Web Site"), 
knows that you, our highly valued customer, care how 
your information is used and how your privacy is 
protected. We are committed to protecting your privacy 
and have created this policy in order to demonstrate 
our commitment to that privacy. With our statement, we 
intend to explain how we use the information we have 
gathered from our visitors, subscribers or customers, 
as well as the terms and conditions under which you may 
use the Web Site.


Subscribing to MyLaptopGPS™ or Placing Any Other 
Order

When you place an order, such as a MyLaptopGPS™ 
subscription, we require you to provide us with 
personal contact information including (but not 
necessarily limited to) your name, shipping address, 
billing address, credit card information, email 
address, and telephone numbers. This information is 
used to process your orders and contact you if there is 
trouble completing or shipping your order (when 
applicable).


Information and Use

We use the personally identifiable information you 
provide for internal purposes, such as processing your 
order, newsletter subscription or MyLaptopGPS™ 
subscription, analyzing trends and statistics, 
informing you of our new products, services and offers, 
and providing you with information from and about Tri-8,
Inc. brands.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems 
with our server(s) and to administer our Web Site. Your 
IP address also may be used to gather broad demographic 
information and to recognize customer traffic patterns 
and site usage. This information aids us in 
merchandising and in developing the design and layout 
of the site.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve 
ads or email campaigns on our behalf. These companies 
may employ cookies and action tags (also known as 
single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure 
advertising effectiveness. 

We may contract with companies or persons to provide 
certain services including credit card processing, 
shipping, data management, promotional services, etc. 
We call them our Vendors. We provide our Vendors with 
the information needed for them to perform these 
services, including enough information about individual 
items stored in SafeRegistry™ to properly and 
accurately execute these services.

Furthermore, we may perform the same processing, 
shipping, data management, marketing or promotional 
services, etc., ourselves rather than contracting with 
companies or persons.


Sharing Information

We may from time to time rent or sell your name, 
address, email address or other information for use to 
reputable businesses that can provide you with valuable 
offers and information. Opting out of receiving these 
third party offers is very easy and a method of doing 
so is provided along with the offers. We may work with 
certain companies who, in conjunction with their own 
membership programs or rewards programs, require that 
we disclose purchasing information about their 
customers who visit our site through links from the 
partner sites, or use the partner's credit card to make 
purchases on our site (e.g., to earn points for 
purchases made on the site through links from the 
partner site). We disclose only the information 
required to make these programs work and support your 
membership with them, which typically includes the name 
and/or email address of the user as well as the dollar 
amount of purchases made. We disclose this information 
to companies under an agreement that requires that they 
obtain your consent first, usually under the membership 
or participation rules. If you do not want us to 
disclose that information to the strategic partner, 
then you must contact them directly.


IP Address and Cookies

In general, you can visit many of our web pages without 
telling us who you are or revealing any personal 
information about yourself. But like most companies, we 
use "cookies" (small pieces of information stored on 
your computer) on certain parts of our Web Site. 
Cookies allow websites to remember user activity and 
visits to a site. At Tri-8, Inc., we may use 
cookies to determine the number of unique visitors we 
host on our website over any given period of time. 
Cookies are also used to facilitate login sessions in 
SafeRegistry™ itself, and MyLaptopGPS™, in 
order to properly verify that you are authorized (you 
have logged in) to view account data. We do not use the 
cookie to collect any type of personal information, and 
the cookie does not extract any information from your 
computer.


Security

The Personal Customer Information you provide -- 
including your credit card information -- to establish 
an account with us and to make purchases from us is 
secured using secure sockets layer (SSL) technology for 
all your transactions on our site. We use this SSL 
technology to prevent such information from being 
intercepted and read as it is transmitted over the 
Internet. The encrypted data goes to a secure site 
where your information is stored on restricted-access 
computers located at restricted-access sites.

In addition, we maintain highly stringent security 
standards for our servers and applications. We make 
every reasonable effort to ensure 100% security for 
your SafeRegistry™ data, to prevent its theft or 
disclosure, and to prevent its accidental loss. Our 
data centers utilize such measures as 24-hour 
surveillance and biometric verification for personal 
access to restricted areas, all in an effort to 
safeguard your private data.


MyLaptopGPS™

With specific regard to MyLaptopGPS™ for laptop 
computer tracking, we collect various pieces of data 
including the computer's IP address, uptime, internal 
IP address, logged-in username, and so on. We 
periodically DELETE logs of MyLaptopGPS™ regular 
activity. We collect the information for the express 
purpose of providing recovery services in the event 
your laptop is stolen. We keep a reasonable history of 
log data from your laptop in case you report it stolen 
and it has contacted our servers between the time it 
was stolen and the time you report it, so that we may 
be able to immediately begin recovery work.

You specifically install MyLaptopGPS™, at your 
election, in order that we may recover your data in the 
event of theft and return that data to you, as well as 
the hardware if possible.

We do not download files and file information from your 
PC unless you authorize us to by reporting it stolen or 
otherwise requesting file download. We do not delete 
files from your PC unless you authorize us to as part 
of the service, said authorization being obtained in a 
variety of methods including online or via the 
telephone.

By using MyLaptopGPS™ you are explicitly and 
intentionally using our service to monitor your PC, 
track it, and recover data from it. If you do not want 
this activity to occur, do not install the software. We 
make all good-faith efforts to guard your privacy, 
delete data and logs from our server after recovery is 
complete, and safeguard the integrity of the service.


Sale of Our Company

In the event of a merger, consolidation, or sale or 
transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or 
business of the Company by, with, or into another 
company (a "Successor"), one of the assets which would 
generally be transferred is the information we collect 
from our customers, subscribers, and users. However, 
the use of this information by any Successor would 
still be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy, 
as amended from time to time, including any amendment 
after such transaction, and you will continue to have 
the right to opt-out of sharing your information with 
third parties.


Children's Issues

The Web Site is not directed to children under thirteen 
(13) years of age, and children under such age must not 
use the Web Site or services offered on it to submit 
any individually identifiable information about 
themselves.


Copyright

The materials found on the Web Site are protected by 
United States and other copyright laws, except for 
works of the United States Government pursuant to 1 
U.S.C. Section 105. The selection, arrangement and 
presentation of all materials (including information in 
the public domain), and the overall design of the Web 
Site are copyright June 6, 2006, Tri-8, Inc.
Permission is granted to view and print materials from 
MyLaptopGPS.com for the non-commercial purpose of 
viewing, reading and retaining for reference. Any other 
copying, distribution, retransmission or modification 
of information or materials on this site, whether in 
electronic or hard copy form, without the express prior 
written permission of Tri-8, Inc., is strictly 
prohibited.


Trademarks

MyLaptopGPS™, SafeBeacon GPS™, SafeTag™, SafeRegistry™,
the MyLaptopGPS™ logo, the SafeBeacon GPS™ logo, and
the SafeTag™ design are all trademarks of Tri-8,
Inc.


No Warranties

MyLaptopGPS.com DOES NOT MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED 
WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER 
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 
OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE) 
WITH REGARD TO THE WEB SITE, THE MATERIALS, ANY 
PRODUCTS, INFORMATION OR SERVICE PROVIDED THROUGH THE 
WEB SITE, OR ANY SITES LISTED THEREIN, AND THE WEB SITE 
WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY COST OR DAMAGE ARISING 
EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY SUCH 
TRANSACTION. THE WEB SITE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT IT WILL 
BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT DEFECTS IN IT 
WILL BE CORRECTED. THE WEB SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS 
IS, AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE WEB SITE OR ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, 
OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND THE ASSIGNS OF SAME BE 
LIABLE FOR (1) ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR 
INDIRECT DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, 
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, 
LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING 
OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE, THE 
MATERIALS OR ANY INFORMATION, OR TRANSACTIONS PROVIDED 
ON THE WEB SITE OR DOWNLOADED FROM THE WEB SITE, EVEN 
IF THE WEB SITE OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES HAVE 
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR (2) 
ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR OTHER 
INACCURACIES IN THE WEB SITE, THE MATERIALS AND/OR 
LISTINGS OR INFORMATION UPLOADED OR DOWNLOADED THROUGH 
THE WEB SITE, OR (3) ANY RESULT OF THE INSURANCE CLAIMS 
PROCESS, INCLUDING THE DENIAL OF ANY SAFEREGISTRY 
USER'S INSURANCE CLAIM FILED WITH SAID USER'S INSURER, 
WITH OR WITHOUT THE INCLUSION OF INFORMATION STORED IN 
SAFEREGISTRY AND/OR SAFEREGISTRY REPORTS. BECAUSE SOME 
STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF 
LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE 
ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, 
THE WEB SITE'S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST 
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.


Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the 
Web Site and its members, managers, officers, 
employees, agents and the assigns of same, from and 
against any and all loss, costs, expenses (including 
reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses), claims, 
damages and liabilities related to or associated with 
your use of the Web Site and any violation of this 
Privacy Policy and these Terms of Use by you.


Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Privacy Policy and these Terms of Use constitutes 
a contract made under and shall be governed by and 
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of 
Arkansas.


Payment of Service Fees

By subscribing to MyLaptopGPS™ service you agree 
to pay the service fees as charged and as set forth on 
order pages, hosted either directly at MyLaptopGPS.com 
(or its subdomains) or at affiliate websites. In the 
event that you fail to pay your service fees in a 
timely and prudent manner, Tri-8, Inc. reserves 
the right to terminate your MyLaptopGPS™ account 
with or without notice, in which case you agree to 
forfeit any data you have stored in SafeRegistry™ 
(online) and to accept the cessation of tracking and 
recovery services for any computers you have protected 
with MyLaptopGPS™. In addition, should Tri-8, 
Inc. receive information regarding the 
whereabouts of property you have labeled with a 
SafeTag™, such as a lost item that has been 
found, with the finder reporting the same, Tri-8, 
Inc. is NOT required to contact you about 
said property if your account is delinquent due to 
non-payment of service fees. Should Tri-8, Inc. 
choose to contact you to inform you of the recovery of 
your item, you agree to pay a service restoration fee 
as charged by Tri-8, Inc. for the facilitation 
(by Tri-8, Inc.) of the return of your item and 
the re-activation of your delinquent account. In the 
event that you decline such fee to restore your 
delinquent MyLaptopGPS™ account, Tri-8, Inc.
bears no responsibility to facilitate the return of 
your property from the finder.


Policy Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy and Terms of 
Use in whole or in part, we will post the updated 
document here on our website, including the effective 
date of the policy.  The new policy will apply to all 
current and past users of our Web Site and will replace 
any prior policies that are inconsistent.


Modifying Personal Information

You may modify your personal information from your 
account at any time by logging into SafeRegistry™ 
(MyLaptopGPS online website users area) and selecting 
the appropriate link to your details.


Your Agreement

By using the Web Site or purchasing a product or 
subscription from us, you agree to the collection and 
use of information and the Terms of Use of this Web 
Site as set forth in this Privacy Policy and Terms of 
Use document.

If you wish to contact us, you may do so by writing to:

Tri-8, Inc.
Attn: Customer Service
2923 North Monroe Street
Stillwater, OK 74075