Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Last Update: January 14, 2025

TERMS OF USE

This “Terms of Use” web page describes the terms and conditions that govern your use of our website, www.NSTPictures.com (“Website”), as owned and operated by NST Pictures (“NST”). Capitalized terms, unless otherwise defined, have the meaning specified within the Definitions section below. This Terms of Use, along with our Privacy Policy below, and other posted guidelines within our Website, collectively “Legal Terms”, constitute the entire and only agreement between you and NST with respect to our Website and the subject matter contained herein, and supersede all other agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect thereto. We may amend our Legal Terms at any time without specific notice to you. Such changes will be noted by updating the date above after “Last Updated”. Changes to Legal Terms become effective immediately after posting. It is your responsibility to review these Legal Terms prior to each use of the Website. If you do not accept our Legal Terms, do not access or use our Website.

Definitions

The terms “us” or “we” or “our” refers to NST, the owner of the Website.

A “Child” is someone under the age of 18.

A “Member” is an individual that has scheduled an event with NST and has access to our Website’s features.

A “User” is a collective identifier that refers to either a Visitor or a Member.

A “Visitor” is someone who merely browses our Website.

All text, information, graphics, audio, video, and data offered through our Website, whether free to all or part of our paid features of our Website, are collectively known as our “Content”. We may refer to Content provided by our Members as “Member Content.” When we refer to our Website, Content is to be included by this reference.

Limited License

NST grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use our Website strictly in accordance with our Legal Terms. Your use of our Website is solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes, unless otherwise provided in our Legal Terms.

Our Relationship to You

Your use of this Website and our Legal Terms in no way creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between you and NST or our affiliates. We provide the Website and Content for informational purposes.

Legal Compliance

You agree to comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations regarding your use of our Website. NST reserves the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of our Legal Terms and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to canceling your Member account, reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profile, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information, as allowed under our Privacy Policy.

Eligibility and Registration for Membership

You may view most of our Content on our Website as a Visitor, however, you will be required to register as a Member for full access. If you are a Child you are not permitted to become a Member. Any registration by any Member in contravention of the above limitations is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of our Legal Terms. You agree to abide by all of the terms and conditions of our Legal Terms. NST has the sole right and discretion to determine whether to accept a Member, and may reject a Member’s registration, with or without explanation.

As a Member, NST will assign a security code that will allow you to access our Website (“Security Code”). You agree to maintain the confidentiality of your Security Code and are fully responsible for all liability and damages resulting from your failure to maintain that confidentiality and all activities that occur through the use of your Member account. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your Member account or any other breach of security regarding your account or information. You agree that NST shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with password security as discussed herein.

Member Content 

Our Members may have the ability to upload images to our Website, and such images are considered Member Content. By uploading Member Content, you warrant to NST that you have the legal right, whether by ownership, license, or otherwise, to transmit, display, and use the underlying associated image(s). You are solely responsible for insuring that you do not infringe the rights of any third parties in such Member Content and for any legal damages caused by your transmission, use, or display of Member Content.

You understand Member Content may contain material that someone may consider offensive, indecent, or objectionable. We have no control over Member Content provided by Members and do not in any way guarantee the quality,

accuracy or integrity of such Member Content. NST is not responsible for the monitoring or filtering of any Member Content. Should any Member Content be found illegal, NST will submit all necessary information to the proper authorities.

If your Member Content is reported to NST as being in violation of third party rights (i.e. copyrights), or is reported as offensive or inappropriate, we may ask you to retract or otherwise modify the questionable Member Content within 24 hours of being notified by NST. Should you fail to comply with such a request, NST has full authority and sole discretion to remove the offending Member Content, restrict your ability to post further Member Content, and in our sole discretion, to immediately terminate your account without further notification to you.

You acknowledge that NST is NOT liable for loss or damage to Member Content, nor do we warrant that we may have a backup of your Member Content. You should always maintain your own backup copies of Member Content.

NST does not make any ownership claims to your Member Content. However, by uploading Member Content, you grant NST a perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use, display, and redistribute your Member Content in any form we see fit.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Compliance

NST follows the terms of the United States’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) as found under United States law (17 USC. § 512). If you believe any of your copyrights are infringed by our Content, please provide written notice to [email protected] Attn: Copyright Agent, containing the following information:

1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;

1. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

1. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on our Website;

1. Your address, telephone number, and email address and all other information reasonably sufficient to contact you;

1. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; AND

1. A statement by you made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

NST will only respond to those notices that substantially comply with the above requirements. We will promptly investigate your claim and respond by email. Any Content that is found to infringe upon the copyrights will be removed. If the violation is by a Member, a warning will be issued to the responsible Member. Members found to engage in repeated offenses will be blocked from the Website.

Member Conduct

As a Member, you agree not to use our Website to do any of the following:

1. upload, post or otherwise transmit any Member Content that:

• violates any local, state, federal or international laws.
• infringes on any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party.
• harms, threatens, defames, promotes violence or illegal activities, or is otherwise vulgar, obscene, abusive, harassing, tortuous, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethically or otherwise objectionable.
• links directly or indirectly to any materials to which you do not have a right to link.
• contains any private information of any third party, including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, government issued tax or identification numbers and credit card numbers.
• contains website viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer Website or hardware or telecommunications equipment, or to extract information from our Website.
• contains any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation.
• you do not have a right to transmit under any law (i.e. intellectual property laws) or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (i.e. Non-Disclosure Agreements).
• in the sole judgment of NST, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying our Website, or which may expose NST, our affiliates, or our Users to any harm or liability of any type.

2. use our Content to:

• develop a competing website or help anyone else to do the same.
• create compilations or derivative works as defined under copyright laws.
• re-distribute it in any manner, including, but not limited to, sale, license, lease, rental, subscription, or any other distribution mechanism.
• decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer our Website and any related website.
• use our Website in any manner that violates our Legal Terms or any local, state, federal, or international laws.

3. use your account to:

• allow another person to login as you.
• violate any local, state, federal, or international laws.

Intellectual Property

Our Website may contain our trademarks, our affiliates, and other companies, in the form of words, graphics, and logos. Your use of our Website does not constitute any right or license for you to use such trademark, without the prior written permission of the corresponding trademark owner. Our Website is also protected under international copyrights. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any portion of our Website is strictly prohibited. Your use of our Website does not grant you ownership rights of any kind in our Content or Website. As mentioned, we do not claim ownership of your Member Content, but by providing it to our Website, you do not receive any other rights in our Content other than what belongs to you already.

Linking to Our Website

You may provide links to our Website, provided (a) that you do not remove or obscure, by framing or otherwise, any portion of our Website, (b) your website does not engage in illegal or immoral activities, and (c) you discontinue providing links to our Website immediately upon request by us.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to third party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you. By linking to these websites, we do not create or have an affiliation with, or sponsor such third party websites. The inclusion of links within our Website does not constitute any endorsement, guarantee, warranty, or recommendation of such third party websites. NST has no control over the legal documents and privacy practices of third party websites; as such, you access any such third party websites at your own risk.

Warranty Disclaimer

NST reserves the right to change any and all Content and features of our Website, at any time without notice. While our Website is currently free to use, we may begin charging for use of all or part of its features at any time, without notice to you. Our Website may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. NST assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Member Content. NST is not responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of any telephone network or service, computer systems, servers, computer or mobile phone equipment, Website, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any combination thereof, including injury or damage to anyone’s computer, mobile phone, or other hardware or website, related to or resulting from using, uploading, or downloading materials in connection with our Website. Under no circumstances will NST be responsible for any loss or damage, including any loss or damage or personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of our Website, or for any interactions between Users of our Website, whether online or offline.

OUR WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS-IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH “ALL FAULTS”, AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE DISCLAIMED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DISCLAIMER OF ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). OUR WEBSITE MAY CONTAIN BUGS, ERRORS, PROBLEMS OR OTHER LIMITATIONS. NST, INCLUDING ALL OUR AFFILIATES, HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE, OTHER THAN AS SPECIFIED IN OUR LEGAL TERMS. NST CANNOT GUARANTEE AND DOES NOT PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM USE OF OUR WEBSITE. NST DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT OUR WEBSITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT IT IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IN THE USE AND DOWNLOADING OF ANY SUCH CONTENT AND USE INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED PROGRAMS TO DETECT AND REMOVE VIRUSES. ALL RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY VIRUSES SOMEHOW ATTRIBUTED TO OUR WEBSITE IS DISCLAIMED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU USE OUR WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR USE THEREOF AND ANY DAMAGES TO YOU, YOUR MOBILE DEVICE OR COMPUTER SYSTEM, OR OTHER HARM OF ANY KIND THAT MAY RESULT. WE, AS WELL AS ALL OF OUR AFFILIATES, ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF INCOME, BUSINESS, PROFITS, LITIGATION, OR THE LIKE), WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE NEGATION AND LIMITATION OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND NST. OUR WEBSITE WOULD NOT BE PROVIDED WITHOUT SUCH LIMITATIONS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US THROUGH OUR WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR GUARANTEE NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN OUR LEGAL TERMS.

Limitation of Liability

NST, as well as all our affiliates, shall not be liable for any loss, injury, claim, liability, or damage of any kind resulting in any way from (a) any errors in or omissions from our Website; (b) the unavailability or interruption of our Website; (c) your use of our Website; or (d) any delay or failure in performance of our Website.

NST AND ITS AFFILIATES ARE NOT LIABLE FOR THE ACTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, BREACHES OR NEGLIGENCE OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURIES, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR OTHER DAMAGES OR EXPENSES RESULTING THEREFROM IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR WEBSITE. NST AND ITS AFFILIATES HAVE NO LIABILITY AND WILL MAKE NO WARRANTY, REFUND, OR OTHER RESTITUTION TO YOU WITH REGARDS TO OUR WEBSITE, OTHER THAN AS SPECIFIED HEREIN, FOR ANY REASON, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DELAYS, CANCELLATIONS, STRIKES, GOVERNMENTAL ISSUES, OR FORCE MAJEURE.

IN NO EVENT WILL NST OR ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING FOR ANY LOSSES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE, EVEN IF NST IS AWARE OR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, NST’s LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO YOUR CEASING USE OF OUR WEBSITE.

Use of Information

We reserve the right, and you authorize us, to the use and assignment of all of your account information and usage information regarding our Website in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy. All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated by you to us (collectively, “Submission”) is considered our property. To the extent that such Submission contains copyrighted, either owned by you or licensed to you, you grant NST a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use such Submission as we see fit, in any form whether on our Website or elsewhere. We will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, and will not be liable for any ideas (including without limitation, product, service or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in our service or other operations. Without limitation, we will have exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Submission of every kind and nature everywhere. We will be entitled to use the Submission for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not us, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless NST and our partners, agents, officers, directors, employees, subcontractors, successors, assigns, third party suppliers of information and documents, attorneys, advertisers, product and services, and affiliates, from any liability, loss, claim and expense, including reasonable attorney’s fees, related to your violation of our Legal Terms or your use of our Website.

Termination of Your Account

You acknowledge that if you violate the terms of our Legal Terms, NST reserves the right to terminate your account without notice. You may also voluntarily terminate your account. You understand that if your account is terminated, you will lose access to our Website and any Member Content you have provided. You understand that we are not required to provide you with copies of such Member Content nor continue to maintain copies of such Member Content on our Website.

Arbitration

Any legal controversy or legal claim arising out of or relating to our Legal Terms and/or our Website, excluding legal action taken by us to collect or recover damages for, or obtain any injunction relating to intellectual property infringement, shall be settled solely by binding arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted before an arbitrator selected by the American Arbitration Association in New York, New York, USA. The judgment of such arbitrator on award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. We may seek any interim or preliminary relief from a court of competent jurisdiction within state and federal courts of the State of New York as necessary to protect the rights or property of you and us pending the completion of arbitration. Each party shall bear one-half of the arbitration fees and costs, but the prevailing party may seek return of such arbitration fees and reasonable attorney fees.

Governing Law; General Terms

Our Legal Terms shall be treated as though it were executed and performed in New York, New York, USA, and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, USA, without regard to conflict of law principles. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Any cause of action by you with respect to our Website, must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred. Should any part of our Legal Terms be held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed consistent with applicable law and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. To the extent that any Content in our Website conflicts or is inconsistent with our Legal Terms, our Legal Terms shall take precedence. Our failure to enforce any provision of our Legal Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision. The rights of NST under our Legal Terms shall survive the termination of our Legal Terms.

PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: January 14, 2025

NST Pictures (“NST,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This “Privacy Policy” outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.NSTPictures.com (“Website”) or communicate with us, including via SMS messaging. NST reserves the right to amend or modify the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time, without specific notice to you. Such changes will be noted by updating the date above after “Last Updated”.   By accessing our Website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please refrain from using our Website.

Your Privacy

NST follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we may collect information from you, how we may share your information, and how you can limit our sharing of your information. We break up the types of information you share into Non-Personal Information and Personally Identifiable Information.

“Non-Personal Information” is information that is not personally identifiable to you and that we automatically collect when you access our Website with a web browser such as device type, browser type, operating system.

“Personally Identifiable Information” is non-public information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained in order for us to provide you with access to certain features of our Website. Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your email address, physical location, and other related information that you provide to us or that we obtain about you. It may also include any pictures that upload when using our Website.

Information We Collect

Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide to NST when using our Website. As a Visitor, you can browse our Website to find out more about our Website. You are not required to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information as a Visitor. However, if you register as a Member to use our Website, you must provide Personally Identifiable Information to NST in order for us to provide you with certain features of our Website. As a Member, we collect your Personally Identifiable Information in the following ways:

1. At Member Registration

When you register for membership, we collect identifiers such as your name, email address and telephone number so that we can communicate with you about our Website and services.

2. Participation in Our Website

As a Member participating in our Website, you may upload images. You should take great care in what images you may upload so as not to infringe on your own privacy or that of others. We don’t have a duty to review what you upload.

3. Online Forms

There may be online forms used in our Website. The information you enter into these online forms may contain Personally Identifiable Information.

4. Computer Information Collected

When you use our Website, NST automatically collects certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered Non-Personal Information. NST also collects the following:

a. Cookies

Our Website uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Website. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Website correctly or at all.

b. Web Beacons 

We may also use a technology called “Web Beacons” to collect general information about your use of our Website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by Web Beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people that open our emails. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our Website. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your permission.

c. Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website you visit when you leave our Website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.

How We Use Your Information

NST uses the information we receive from you as follows:

1. Providing and Improving Our Website

NST may use the Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us along with any computer information we receive to provide our Website to you, as well as to make improvements to it.

2. Communications and Email Alerts

When NST communicates with you about our Website, we will use the email address you provided when registering as a Member. We may also send you Website alerts regarding your use of our Website. Finally, we may also send you emails with promotional information about NST, unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change contact preferences at any time through your account. While you can opt-out of promotional messages, you cannot opt-out of receiving Website alerts.

3. Sharing Information with Affiliates and Other Third Parties

NST does not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for marketing purposes. However, we may use demographic information for data aggregation purposes which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your Personally Identifiable Information. We may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to affiliates that provide websites to NST with regards to our Website (i.e. payment processors, web hosting companies, etc.); such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide services with respect to the Website’s purpose and NST services, and will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information.

4. Legally Required Releases of Information

NST may be legally required to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of NST, our Users, employees, and affiliates.

5. Disclosures to Successors

If NST is acquired or merges, in whole or in part, with another business that would become responsible for providing the Website to you, we retain the right to transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your Personally Identifiable Information according to the terms of this Privacy Policy as well as to any changes to this Privacy Policy as instituted by the new business.

Additional Terms

Community Discussion Boards

Our Website may offer the capability for Users to communicate with each other through online Community Discussion Boards. NST does not filter or monitor what is posted on such discussion boards. If you chose to post on these discussion boards, you should use care when exposing any Personally Identifiable Information as such information is not protected by our Privacy Policy nor are we liable should you choose to disclose Personally Identifiable Information through such postings.

“Do Not Track/Follow” Settings

In compliance with applicable laws, NST wants you to know that our Website does not currently honor “do not track” or “do not follow” settings as your web browser may allow.

Protecting Your Child’s Privacy

We want to protect your Child’s privacy. Even though our Website is not designed for use by a Child, we realize that a Child may attempt to access our Website. We do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from a Child. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your Child is using our Website, please contact us. We may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover on our own that a Child is accessing our Website, we will delete the information as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so. If you are a Child, please seek the permission of a parent or guardian before accessing our Website.

Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties

We believe in everyone’s right to privacy. If any Member Content you upload to our Website contain the images of third parties (i.e. bystanders), you need to make sure you have permission to include them in your image. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our Users, we will remove any images for which we are notified that such images violate the privacy rights of others.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites. You agree that NST has no control over such websites and that such websites are NOT subject to this Privacy Policy. These websites may have their own privacy policies and other legal documents. It is your sole responsibility to verify the privacy policies and other legal documents of such websites to see how they treat your personal information. You acknowledge that your use and access of these websites is solely at your own risk.

Our Email Policy

By providing your phone number and opting in to receive SMS communications from us, you consent to receive text messages (including promotional, transactional, and informational messages) from us and our partners at the phone number you provided. NST and our affiliates fully comply with international laws regarding SPAM. You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence from NST and/or our affiliates. We agree that we will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third-party without your permission.

Our Security Policy

NST has constructed our Website using industry standard encryption and authentication tools to protect your Personally Identifiable Information. When we collect your Personally Identifiable Information through our Website, we encrypt this information and attempt to prevent unauthorized access to it by using industry standard technologies, such as encryption software, routers and firewalls. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot completely guarantee that your Personally Identifiable Information is completely protected. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our Website and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our Website when not in use, especially if you are sharing a computer or mobile device with someone else or are using a public computer.

Changing Your Information

You may change your email address or other Personally Identifiable Information at any time using the account management features found on our Website.

Member Data Rights

You have the right to request access and/or request a copy of your personal data (Personally Identifiable Information) we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies or incomplete data we hold about you, which you are not capable of correcting through the account management features on the Website. You have the right to request to opt-out or the deletion of your personal data, subject to applicable laws and regulations. We will delete your personal data if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if you withdraw your consent where applicable. To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at [email protected], Attn: Data Protection. We will respond to your request as promptly as possible, no later than 30 days, in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Data Retention Period

We retain user data for varying periods depending on the type of information, purpose of collection, and applicable legal requirements. Below is a breakdown of our general retention guidelines:

1. Member Information: Member account details, including Personally Identifiable Information (e.g., name, email), are retained for the duration of the Member’s active account with us. Once the purpose for which the data was collected has been fulfilled, the data will be deleted. We may also delete personal data upon the legitimate request of a Member, as per applicable laws.

2. Communication Records: Email correspondence and other communication records will be retained for at least five (5) years to ensure proper customer service, provide a record of interactions, enforce agreements or comply with legal obligations.

3. Non-Personal Information: Non-personal data, such as website usage, analytics data and cookies, may be retained indefinitely in an anonymized or aggregated form for statistical and operational purposes.

Notice of Security Breach

NST takes the security of your personal data seriously and have implemented reasonable measures to protect it from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, in the event of a security breach that compromises your personal data, we are committed to providing timely and transparent notifications and to taking appropriate actions to mitigate the impact of the breach.

In the event of a data breach that results in the unauthorized access or disclosure of personal data, we will:1. Notify Affected Users: If the breach affects your personal data, we will notify you by email within the timeframes required by applicable privacy laws, no later than 72 hours after discovery of the breach. The notification will include details of the breach, such as:

• • The nature of the breach
  • The types of personal data affected
  • The steps we are taking to investigate and mitigate the breach
  • Actions you can take to protect yourself from potential harm

Contact information for further inquiries2. We will take immediate action to:

• Investigate the Incident: We will conduct a thorough investigation to determine the cause and scope of the breach.
• Mitigate Damage: We will work to limit further unauthorized access to your data, including any potential misuse or exposure.

Questions About Our Privacy Practices or This Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about our Privacy Practices or this Policy, please contact us by email at [email protected].