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At TheStockPit.com, we consider the information you have shared with us strictly confidential. We will not sell
or otherwise distribute any of your personal information.
TheStockPit.com collects information from individual members in order to comply with stock exchange regulations
regarding the distribution of real-time information. We also use this information to better understand our customers
in order to provide relevant product and service offerings and to target our advertising.
Our sites may contain links to other web sites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of
any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we provide links from our sites. You
should check the applicable privacy policy of the web site sponsor when linking to other web sites.
Our sites may also contain forums, bulletin boards, chat rooms, and discussion groups in which other individuals
may post information that invades the privacy of another person. We have no control over the privacy practices
or the content of posts made by individuals not employed by TheStockPit.com, Inc., and we take no responsibility
for such posts.
I. Collected Information
We request that you supply us with personal information, including your e-mail address, postal address, home
or work telephone number, credit card number (only if you choose to purchase a product online), for purposes such
as correspondence, making a purchase, or participating in online contests, surveys or games. If you choose to give
us personal information via the Internet that we or our business partners may need -- to correspond with you, process
an order or provide you with a subscription, for example -- it is our intent to let you know how we will use such
information.
Like many other commercial sites, our sites may utilize a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect
information about how our site is used. Cookies were designed to help a web site recognize a user's browser as
a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while the user was browsing
the site. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture
your e-mail address. Our web sites may use cookies to enhance your visit. Cookies can securely store a user's
password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of selections,
such as those selected in a "shopping cart." Our cookies may collect your domain name and track your
selections through our web pages. We only use "cookies" to gather the information indicated in this policy
and do not use cookies to gather personal identifying information about you without your consent.
We require you to supply us with personal information (demographic information such as average age, income, education,
population data, zip codes) during a "registration" process online prior to using certain features of
our site. For example, you may be required to register to use chat rooms, forums, access to Real-time Quotes, Portfolio
tracking, and to access other features. We use this general information to aggregate information according to demographics,
such as gender, geographic location, age, income or a combination of these or other demographics.
II. Use of Information
We may perform statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior. This allows us to measure relative interest
in the various areas of our web sites for development purposes. Any information we collect is used for its own
internal purposes to improve the content of the web sites, to enhance user's experiences when visiting our sites,
to customize the content and/or layout of our pages, and to provide the services required by an individual user.
This information may also be used for targeting advertising and special information to our users.
III. Disclosure to Third Parties
We do not share personal identifying information with any third party without your permission unless required
to do so by law or to prevent harm to TheStockPit.com, Inc. We disclose only in aggregate form our statistical
analyses or demographics of users to third parties, such as advertisers or other business partners. In some instances,
we operate shared web sites with businesses affiliated with us. Our privacy policy will apply to these web sites,
and our affiliates adhere to our privacy policy and will not share personal information with any third party without
your permission. PLEASE BE AWARE that when you voluntarily disclose personal information (such as your name, e-mail
address) in chat areas or bulletin boards to third parties, that information may be collected by others outside
the control of us and may result in unsolicited messages from others.
IV. Accuracy of User Information
In order to ensure the accuracy of personal information provided for registration, you may return to the registration
form online in order to change information you have provided at any time.
These privacy policies are effective as of September 30, 1999. We reserve the right to change this policy at any
time, and will post any changes to this policy as soon as they go into effect.
V. Security of Information
We use our best efforts to ensure the security of personal information submitted by users. When collecting
credit card information for online purchases, we offer secured-server transactions that encrypt your information
in transit to thwart someone from intercepting it and misusing it. When we collect other information from our users,
it is stored in an area where the general public does not have access to it.
VI. Opting-out
At any time while assessing our sites, any user while online may "opt-out" of further e-mail contact
from us (while still allowing access to our sites).
VII. Use of Materials
The right to download and store or output the materials in our sites is granted for the user's personal use
only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance,
display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without the express written permission
of us is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing
on these sites may contact us at earl@thestockpit.com. |
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