EP Minerals, LLC Online Privacy Statement and Policy

EP Minerals, LLC Online Privacy Statement and Policy

Effective May 17, 2007

EP Minerals, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personally identifiable information. This privacy statement and policy is designed to help you understand what information we gather online and what we do with that information. By using our web site, you agree to the terms of the privacy statement and policy in effect at that time.

Information We Gather

In order to register to access certain information on our site, you must provide the following information:

Your first and last name
Your company name
Your email address
Your telephone number
A log-in identification or user name

We collect two types of information: personal information of the type described above and information regarding materials and data viewed and/or downloaded or printed from our site.

Use of Cookie Technology

In order to register on our web site, your browser must be set to accept cookies. A cookie is just an entry in a text file or folder on your hard drive. We use cookies when you visit our site, so the site can remember your specified area of interest or information which you have saved. The use of cookies is a common operating procedure for most web sites. If you are not comfortable with our use of cookies, please review your browser software to learn how it may be set to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject all cookies. Unfortunately, however, disabling cookies will limit some functionality of your experiences on our web site. Please note that the only personal information our cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Our cookies cannot read data from your computer.

Use and Disclose of Your Information; How We Protect Your Information

We use personal information for the purposes specified at the time it was collected. It is currently be collected to register individuals using our site and to obtain contact information to respond to general and specific inquiries as well as for possible future product marketing. In addition, we may use your personal information for other purposes where permitted by law, such as to provide you with better customer service or more targeted promotions, to assist us in conducting business or to contact you if necessary.

We are committed to maintaining the security of the data you provide to use and will take reasonable precautions to protect personal information from loss, misuse or alteration. Please note that there is always some risk in transmitting information over the Internet. However, we will do our best to protect your personal information to the extent we are able. Any personal information collected about you will be secure and not shared with any third parties, unless you give prior permission for that information to be shared. We restrict access to your personal information to those who may need to know the information in order to properly respond to your requests or for other internal legitimate business interests.

All of our employees who may have access to your personal information are subject to the EP Minerals, LLC Code of Business Conduct which requires our employees to follow every law, rule, regulation, court and/or commission order that applies to our business at all times. In addition, the Code of Business Conduct specifically require compliance with legal requirements and company policies related to the privacy of communications and the security and privacy of customer records. Employees who fail to meet any of the standards embodied in the Code of Business Conduct may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our web site may from time to time contain links to other sites. We are not responsible or liable for the content, security or privacy practices employed by other sites. You will be informed when linking to an external site and you are encouraged to review the privacy statement and policy for that external site or to otherwise contact them to ask questions about their privacy practices, policies and security measures before disclosing any personally identifiable information on their sites.

Security Questions or Comments

We are committed to providing a secure, friendly site where customers and prospective customers can come to obtain product and other company information without undue concern over security. For more information about this privacy statement and policy or the protection of your personal information, please contact our privacy officer via email at inquiry.minerals@eaglepicher.com or by telephone at 1-800-775-7600.

We reserve the right to change, modify, supplement or update this privacy statement and policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically check our web site for changes, modifications, supplements and updates to this privacy statement and policy. We also reserve the right to discontinue access to our web site of any party at any time for any reason and in our sole discretion.