Policy

Date Effective: May 23, 2018

SmartFinancialInsider.com ("Company", "we", "our") is committed to advising you of the right to your privacy and strives to provide a safe and secure user experience. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store and use personal information provided by you on our website. By accessing and using our website, you explicitly accept, without limitation or qualification, the collection, use and transfer of the personal information provided by you in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Policy carefully, as it affects your rights and liabilities under the law. If you disagree with the way we collect and process personal information, please do not use this website.

Information We Collect

1.1. We collect general types of information about you when you visit and use our website, examples include personal information, demographic information, behavioral information, and indirect information. Sometimes we collect combinations of these types of information.

1.2. Personal information is information that can be used to identify you or any other individual to whom the information may relate. This is information we may collect when you contact us. Such information may include your name, address, telephone numbers, and email address. We only collect this information during the course of communicating with you about our website, our other products or our website.

1.3. Demographic information is information that may or may not be unique to you in the sense that it relates to selected population characteristics. Such information may include, but is not limited to, zip code, telephone number(s), including mobile phone number(s) and carriers, birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, employment and online interests. This may be collected during surveys or contests we may run on our website.

1.4. Behavioral information is information pertaining to how you use our website, the areas of our website that you visit, the actions you take, and information about your computer hardware and software, including your IP address, cookie information, browser preferences, operating system type and settings, and the date and time you access the website.

1.5. Third party information is information about you that we acquire from a third party which may include personal, demographic, behavioral and indirect information.

1.6. Web technology information is information we automatically collect from you when you visit our website. This includes information collected from the use of cookies, web beacons or JavaScript.

1.7. No Information Collected from Children. We will never knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected Personal Information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from our database. Because it does not collect such information, we have no such information to use or disclose to third parties.

How We Use Information Collected

We use the information we collect to resolve any questions or issues you bring to our attention, analyze the effectiveness of our website and marketing, or to carry out various business functions. Examples of how that information is used include:

2.1. Marketing Purposes. We use information we collect from you to determine your interests in the articles on our website. If you review a site or Sponsored Content, we use your data to track whether you purchased products or services from a sponsor or advertiser. In addition, we may use your information to provide interest-based content and offer you tailored offers. We may also use the information we collect to identify service or advertising preferences and to determine what articles and most popular. The information we obtain from Sponsored Content may be used to provide you information about third party products and services which we believe will be of interest to you. This may be done by us or a third party vendor.

2.2. Internal Operations. We also use the information we gather to improve the effectiveness of our website, advertising on our website, customer service and marketing efforts and to conduct research and analysis of our marketing and advertisements to perform other business activities as needed.

2.3. Legal Compliance. We use the information we gather to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and monitor against theft. In addition we use such information to protect the security and integrity of our website and our business.

Information We Share With Others

3.1. We disclose your information to third parties throughout the world, or combine personal, demographic, behavioral or indirect information, in the following ways:

(i) Sponsored Content Product and Service Delivery. We share your information with third parties who help us in the delivery of the products and services you have requested on the Sponsored Content pages.

(ii) Website Functionality. We share your information with companies and individuals we employ to perform technical functions on our behalf. Examples include third parties who host our website, analyze our data, provide marketing assistance, process credit card payments, and provide customer service.

(iii) Third Party Products and Services. We share your information with third parties who will provide you with opportunities, products or services. This includes your personal and non-personal information, and includes your interests and preferences, so they may determine whether you might be interested in their products or services.

(iv) Anonymous information. We share aggregated anonymous information about you, combined with other persons using our website, with third parties, so that they can understand the types of visitors to our website, and how those visitors use our website. This includes demographic information and behavioral information.

(v) Legal Process. We disclose your information if legally required to do so, or at our discretion, pursuant to a request from a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property, or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.

(vi) Acquisition or Merger. We may disclose and transfer your information to a third party who acquires any or all of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or substantially all of our assets. In this event we become the subject of an insolvency proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, or we are liquidated, administrator, receiver or administrative receiver may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the court.

Collection and Use of Technology Information

4.1. Cookies. We and our service providers use "cookies" to collect and analyze information about your browsing on our website. The data stored in our cookies allows us to understand how you found our website and what pages you click on during your visit. We use cookies to improve user marketing and website and user experience. A cookie is a small data file stored on your web browser or your computer. When you visit our site, our cookie providers can recognize you by an identifier number in the cookie. You may accept or reject cookies through your browser settings. However, if you block cookies you will not be able to make a purchase on our website.

4.2. Web Beacons. A "web beacon" (often referred to as a pixel tag or tracking pixel) is a tiny graphic placed on a web page that can, in combination with cookies, allow us or our vendors to determine whether you have performed specific actions. When you access a page, open an email message, or click on an advertisement, the web beacon generates a notice of that action to us, or our vendor. We use this information to analyze our marketing efforts and our website effectiveness.

4.3. Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics on our website. In doing so, Google collects and analyzes information about people who use our website, including information about browsing and buying activities. To perform some of these services, they may collect and use information from ours and third party cookies. To learn more about Google's privacy practices and any opt-out choices it offers, click here.

4.4. Third Party Advertising. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads to you based on the technology information we have collected. These ads may be based on your browsing behaviors, and we may allow third parties to access certain information when you view or interact with ads. We do not share personal information with these technology-based ad providers.

4.5. Do Not Track Signals. At this time, we do not respond to browser "do not track" signals.

Security of Your Information

We endeavor to safeguard and protect your information. When you submit personal information to us, it is protected both online and offline. We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under our control. The servers in which we store personal data are in secure physical environments with limited access. We use Secure Socket Layer software (SSL) to protect all data and to secure any transactions. Although we take commercially reasonable precautions to protect your personal information, no transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot and do not warrant that your information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data to or through our website is at your own risk. However, access to your information is strictly limited and not accessible to the public.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make material changes to the substance of this Privacy Policy. We will post these changes through a prominent notice on the website, so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.

Your California Rights

Under California law, a California resident who has an established relationship has the right to request certain information with respect to the types of personal information we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and the identities of those third parties, within the immediately preceding calendar year, subject to certain exceptions. All requests for such information must be in writing and sent to [email protected].

Third Party Collection Use of Your Information

Third parties also collect and use information about you on our website in the following ways: Advertiser cookies and web beacons. Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies who place advertisements on our website and on the Internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about you. We do not control the use of such technology and have no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather information about you.

Hyperlinks and Sponsored Content

Our website contains hyperlinks to the website of third parties. Such links are provided for your convenience and reference only. Our Sponsored Content such as advertisers who use advertising with us, and other content links which govern the collection and use of your information when you reach their website. Please review those terms and conditions as they are different from ours. The inclusion of a link to a website does not imply any endorsement of the services of the website, its contents, or its sponsoring organization.