PRIVACY STATEMENT

Resource Associates Corporation has created this Privacy Statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: http://www.risingStars.cc/.

I.          INFORMATION COLLECTED

We collect non-personally identifiable information about you in a number of ways, including tracking your activities through your IP address, computer settings or most-recently visited URL. We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you voluntarily submit such information to us, by, for example, filling out a survey or registration form. The types of information that may be requested include your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

We do not intentionally collect personal information from visitors to our website who are under Thirteen (13) years of age. We actively strive to prevent the collection of personal information from visitors to our website who are under Thirteen (13) years of age. This constitutes our effort to comply with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (__ USC___ ) and rules adopted pursuant thereto (16 CFR Part 312).

II.         USE OF INFORMATION

In general, we will only use the information you provide to us for the purpose for which such information was provided. We may also use this information to deliver to you information about our company and promotional material, trend analysis, pattern detection, and site administration. Your information may also be used to contact you when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings from the Company by following the instructions set forth in the opt-out section below.

Non-personal demographic and profile data may be used to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content we think you might be interested in. We will not provide your information to any third parties for use in any way, except as noted above; and we may provide your information to our affiliated companies, or when we believe in good faith that we are required by law or legal process to provide that information to others, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Resource Associates Corporation or others.

We will not sell your information to any other person, except in connection with a sale of all or a substantial part of the assets of the Company, in which case the terms of this Privacy Statement will be binding upon the purchaser of those assets.

You acknowledge and agree that we may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us with similar data provided to us by other visitors to our web site (which data collections are referred to as “compilations”), and that we may publish or otherwise distribute such compilations in the form of statistical reports, as we may choose. We will not include, attach or provide links concerning your personal identifying information (including contact information) in such compilations or reports. Such data compilations and reports shall be the property of Resource Associates Corporation.

III.        USE OF IP ADDRESSES

We use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site.

IV.         USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a small data file that some web sites write to your computer’s hard disk drive when you visit them. We use cookies to save your regional information when you first reach our site. We do not store passwords or any personal information about you, except personal information which you voluntarily disclose to us. If you do not want to take advantage of this benefit you can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.  You do not need to accept cookies to use this site.

This site may contain links to other sites. Resource Associates Corporation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other web sites. Our site may use one or more voluntary response forms and/or other forms for visitors to voluntarily furnish personal information to us and request information from us about our products and services. Depending on the information requested, we may collect a visitor’s contact information (like their email address), and other unique identifiers (such as an account number, PIN number, etc.). Contact information will be used to respond to requests for information. Unique identifiers are collected from web site visitors for use in our record system and to protect the privacy of other personal information which the visitor may voluntarily disclose to us. We may also use contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code) to send the visitor information about our products and service. Visitors may opt-out of receiving future mailings. See the Choice/Opt-Out section below.

We may use an outside advertisement server company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. The advertisement server company may collect cookies received with outside banner ads. We do not have access to information that would confirm the use of cookies by an advertisement server company. In addition, other companies that may provide services on this site, that may provide a co-branded version of this site, or may link on to this site, may use cookies or collect other information about you when you go to their site. Resource Associates Corporation does not control the collection or use of information by these companies. You should contact these companies directly if you have any questions about their collection or use of information about you.

Resource Associates Corporation takes reasonable steps to protect your information, including requiring other parties with whom we might share our information to provide an appropriate level of security.