Vanguard Minerals Corporation

We carefully control the contents of these pages and do not assume any legal responsibility for the contents of external links. The operators of linked pages are solely responsible for their contents.

Copyrights: All Rights Reserved. The text, images, graphics, sound files, animation files, video files and their arrangement on Vanguard Minerals Internet sites are all subject to Copyright and other intellectual property protection. These objects may not be copied for commercial use or distribution, nor may these objects be modified or reposted to other sites.

Trademarks: Unless otherwise indicated, all marks displayed on Vanguard Minerals Internet sites are subject to the trademark rights of Vanguard Minerals, including each of Vanguard Minerals' primary brands, its services, and its corporate logos and emblems.

No Warranties or Representations: This information is provided by Vanguard Minerals "as is" and without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including (but not limited to) any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose, or non-infringement. While the information provided is believed to be accurate, it may include errors or inaccuracies.

Forward-Looking Statements: This web site contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Vanguard Minerals management. When used in this web site, words such as "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "plan" and "project" are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the views of Vanguard Minerals as of the date made with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual results to be materially different from those projected here, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Vanguard Minerals disclaims any intention or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

No Licenses: Vanguard Minerals has sought to achieve an innovative and informative Internet site. We hope that you will be as enthusiastic as we are about this creative effort. However, you also need to understand that Vanguard Minerals must protect its intellectual property, including its trademarks and copyrights. Accordingly, please appreciate that no license to Vanguard Minerals' intellectual property has been granted by this Internet site.

Commitment to Data Privacy Protection: Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to Vanguard Minerals; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. We hope the policy outlined below will help you understand what data Vanguard Minerals may collect, how Vanguard Minerals uses and safeguards that data and with whom we may share it.

Personal data: Through our Web sites, Vanguard Minerals will not collect any personal data about you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), unless you voluntarily choose to provide us with it (e.g. by registration, survey), respectively, provide your consent, or unless otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations for the protection of your personal data.

Purpose of Use: When you do provide us with personal data, we usually use it to respond to your inquiry, process your order or provide you access to specific information or offers. Also, to support our customer relationship with you:

we may store and process personal data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to better understand your business needs and how we can improve our products and services; or
we (or a third party on our behalf) may use personal data to contact you about a Vanguard Minerals offer in support of your business needs or to conduct online surveys to understand better our customers' needs.

If you choose not to have your personal data used to support our customer relationship, we will respect your choice. We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third parties, except to Vanguard Minerals affiliates.

Purpose Limitation: Vanguard Minerals will collect, use or disclose personal data supplied by you online only for the purposes disclosed to you, unless the disclosure:

is a use of the personal data for any additional purpose that is directly related to the original purpose for which the personal data was collected,
is necessary to prepare, negotiate and perform a contract with you,
is required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities,
is necessary to establish or preserve a legal claim or defence,
is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as wilful attacks on Vanguard Minerals information technology systems.

Communications or Utilization Data: Through your use of telecommunications services to access our Web site, your communications data (e.g. Internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g. information on the beginning, end and extent of each access, and information on the telecommunications services you accessed) are technically generated and could conceivably relate to personal data. To the extent that there is a compelling necessity, the collection, processing and use of your communications or utilization data will occur and will be performed in accordance with the applicable data privacy protection legal framework.

Non-Personal Data Collected Automatically: When you access our Web sites, we may automatically (i.e., not by registration) collect non-personal data (e.g. type of Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the Web site from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed). We may use this data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to monitor the attractiveness of our Web sites and improve their performance or content.

"Cookies" - Information Stored Automatically on Your Computer: When you view one of our Web sites, we may store some data on your computer in the form of a "cookie" to automatically recognize your PC next time you visit. Cookies can help us in many ways, for example, by allowing us to tailor a Web site to better match your interests or to store your password to save you having to re-enter it each time. If you do not wish to receive cookies, please configure your Internet browser to erase all cookies from your computer's hard drive, block all cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored.

Children: Vanguard Minerals will not knowingly collect personal data from children without insisting that they seek prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal data about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child. The definition of "child" or "children" should take into account applicable laws as well as national and regional cultural customs.

Security: To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, Vanguard Minerals uses technical and organizational security measures.

Links to Other Web Sites: This Vanguard Minerals Web site might contain links to other Web sites. Vanguard Minerals is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites (see also recent ruling by LG Hamburg).

Questions and Comments: Vanguard Minerals will respond to reasonable requests to review your personal data and to correct, amend or delete any inaccuracies. If you have any questions or comments about the Vanguard Minerals Privacy Protection Policy (e.g. to review and update your personal data), please click on "Contact" in the upper right-hand corner of this window, and email us your request. As the Internet matures, so will our Privacy Protection Policy. We will post changes to our Privacy Protection Policy on this page. Please check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.