PRIVACY POLICY

The VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Privacy Policy covers VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.'s treatment of personally identifiable information that VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. collects when the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website is on the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website, and when the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website uses NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK's Services. The VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Privacy Policy also covers VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.'s treatment of any personally identifiable information that VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.'s business partners share with VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. or that VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may collect on a partner's site.

The VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. does not own or control, or to people that VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. does not employ or manage. In addition, the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Privacy Policy does not apply VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. financial products and services, which are expressly covered by a distinct privacy policy.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. collects personally identifiable information when the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website subscribes to the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK, when the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website uses certain NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK products or services, when the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website visits the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website, and when the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website enters any promotions or sweepstakes advertised on the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website, as the case may be. VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may also receive personally identifiable information from its business partners.

When the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website is registered with NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK, the user's vital information is collected. Once the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website is registered with NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK and signs in to the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK services, the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website is not anonymous to VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. also automatically receives and records information on its server logs from the user's browser including its IP address, NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK cookie information and the page the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website requested.

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. uses information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website sees, to fulfill the user's requests for certain products and services, and to contact the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website about specials and new products.

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2. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. will not sell or rent the personally identifiable information of the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website to anyone.

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may send personally identifiable information about the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website to other companies or people when:

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. has the consent of the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website to share the information;

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. needs to share information about the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website to provide the product or service the user has requested;

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. needs to send the information to firms or companies who work on behalf of NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK to provide a product or service to the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website. (Unless the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website is told differently, these firms or companies have no right to use the personally identifiable information provided to them beyond what is necessary to assist VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.);

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. responds to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. finds that the user's actions on the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website violates the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Terms Of Use, the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. subscription documentation Terms and Conditions or the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Acceptable Use Policy, or any of the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. usage guidelines for specific products or services.

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3. COOKIES

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may set and access NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK cookies on the computer of the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website.

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may allow other firms or companies that are presenting information or advertisements on the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website to set and access their cookies on the computer of the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website. Other firms or companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Information providers and advertisers or other firms or companies do not have access to VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.'s cookies.

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may use web beacons to access its cookies within and outside the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.'s network of web sites and in connection with NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK products and services.

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4. EDITING AND DELETING ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND PREFERENCES

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. gives the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website the ability to edit its NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website wants VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. to contact it about specials and new products.

The user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website may request deletion of its NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK account by sending an e-mail to admin@californiainvestmentnetwork.com detailing its user name and password and requesting the termination of its account. After the account of a user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website has been deleted, the following information may possibly remain in the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK archived records:

A temporary copy of the registration information that is routinely made to prevent accidental loss of the user's information through a computer malfunction or human error; In most cases the user's account will be deactivated and then deleted from the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity. Information that has been copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after the user's deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about the user's account remains in VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC.'s active user databases.

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5. SECURITY

The user's NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK Account Information is password-protected for the privacy and security of the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website.

In certain areas VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may use industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

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6. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. may amend the VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. Privacy Policy from time to time. If VERTICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. makes any substantial changes in the way it uses the personal information of the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website it will notify the user of the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website by posting a prominent announcement on the NEW YORK INVESTMENT NETWORK website.

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