Privacy

IBDeditorials.com Privacy Policy

Last Updated January 31, 2007

The Web site IBDeditorials.com featues the editorials and cartoons of Investor's Business Daily and is owned and operated by Investor's Business Daily, Inc.

IBDeditorials.com is committed to respecting and protecting your personal privacy. Our Privacy Policy is explained below. (For the privacy policies governing Investors.com, eIBD, and other Web sites and products owned and operated by Investor's Business Daily, Inc. and/or our affiliated companies, please visit www.investors.com).

Investor's Business Daily, IBD and corresponding logos are registered trademarks of Data Analysis, Inc., an affiliate of Investor's Business Daily.

What Information Does IBDeditorials.com Collect From You and How is it Used?

Registration

In order to use certain features of our Web site or e-mail newsletter, a user may first be required to complete a registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and e-mail address). By registering on IBDeditorials.com, you acknowledge that you have reviewed and agree to the terms of our Terms of Use.

How We Gather Information From You

Our collection of information depends on the page(s) you visit, the services you chose, and the activities you elect to participate in. We may gather information in ways other than listed here as our technology progresses.

Cookies

This site may require the use of browser cookies. Cookies are messages written in your browser. The messages store information so that our site immediately recognizes you each time you visit. This permits us to personalize our site for each member.

Log Files

We use cookies to store visitor preferences, record session information, such as record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, customize web page content based on visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

Clear Gifs

Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier. We employ this technology exclusively for page formatting. We do not use it to track online movements of users.

Sharing

IBDeditorials.com will not share, sell, or rent your email address in our database to unaffiliated third parties without your advance permission.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Aggregate Information

We may use Aggregated Information to identify things such as usage patterns and popularity of certain features on IBDeditorials.com. We may share Aggregated Information with our sister companies.

Third Parties May Receive or Collect Information Through IBDeditorials.com

We may use a third-party ad serving company, such as Tacoda Inc., to serve certain advertisements to you when you visit this Web site. Our third-party ad serving company may use anonymous information related to your visit to the Service's Web site to better provide advertisements to you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Our third-party ad serving company does not have access to or use your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. However, they may receive your USER ID in order to facilitate their service. In the course of serving advertisements to this Web site, our third-party ad serving company may place or recognize a unique "cookie" through your browser. If you would like more information about our third-party ad serving company or regarding your ability to opt-out of the use of cookies, please go to: http://www.tacoda.com/notice/privacy_policy.html.

We use a third-party e-mail service provider, Constant Contact (owned and operated by Roving Software Incorporated), to process and manage subscriptions to the IBDeditorials.com mailing list and to send e-mails to members of that list who have opted-in to receive such e-mails. Our third-party e-mail service provider may use anonymous information related to your visit to the Service's Web site to better provide services that may be of interest to you. In order to process and manage subscriptions, our third-party e-mail service provider has access to the information you enter in the sign up form, including your name, e-mail address, and zip code. However, they are prohibited from using your information for any purpose other than to process and manage your subscription to the IBDeditorials.com mailing list. In the course of managing and processing your subscription, our third-party e-mail service provider may place or recognize a unique "cookie" through your browser. If you would like more information about our third-party ad serving company or regarding your ability to opt-out of the use of cookies, please go to: http://www.constantcontact.com/privacy_guarantee.jsp.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by IBDeditorials.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Communication via Email

IBD reserves the right to send transactional messages and business relationship messages via email to facilitate agreed upon transactions or update customers about existing business relationships. Such emails include, but are not limited to, welcome emails to verify password and username, transaction receipts, notification of activation of online privileges, technical support responses, and other communications required to service customers’ accounts on IBDeditorials.com. Customers cannot unsubscribe from these email messages. IBDeditorials.com may also make various one-time emails and email series available to our members to help them get the most out of their use of IBDeditorials.com features. Such emails include, but are not limited to, newsletters, feature updates, surveys, special offers from IBDeditorials.com as well as special offers of interest from carefully selected third parties. Customers may choose to subscribe to or unsubscribe from any or all of these email communications at will. From time to time, IBDeditorials.com may create new email series to add value and improve our members’ experience. Members will automatically be subscribed to new email series as they become available. If they so choose, customers may unsubscribe from these new email series as well.

Subscribing to and Unsubscribing from Email

With the exception of those transactional and business relationship emails mentioned above, customers may subscribe to or unsubscribe from any or all email messages from IBDeditorials.com. Customers may unsubscribe from specific emails or email series by clicking the "SafeUnsubscribe" or "unsubscribe" link included at the bottom of any email sent by IBDeditorials.com. To subscribe to or unsubscribe from any email or email series, customers may manage their email preferences by (1) Entering your email address in the newsletter sign-up box on IBDeditorials.com, then following the instructions that appear or (2) Calling IBDeditorials.com Customer Service at 1-800-831-2525.

Security

This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information both online and offline. Any sensitive information submitted via the Web site is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use passwords to access this information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security at our Web site, you can send an e-mail to help@IBDeditorials.com.

Phishing

Phishing is a term used to describe a type of Internet scam in which inauthentic e-mails that appear to be coming from a legitimate source are sent in an attempt to trick you into providing confidential information. These emails usually invoke a sense of urgency and often imply that your account is about to be closed unless immediate action is taken. They will often ask you to click on a link that leads you to a webpage that simulates that of the legitimate source, but is really a page specially designed to get you to input your confidential information such as account number, password, social security number or credit card number. The thieves then use that information to commit fraud and identity theft against you.

The Office of the Comptroller of Currency has set up a website providing information warning consumers about the dangers of these scams and how to protect yourself. To learn more about phishing, please click on the following link: www.occ.gov/consumer/phishing.htm

Please know that IBDeditorials.com takes the privacy of our users and members very seriously. If you are ever in question about the legitimacy of an e-mail from IBDeditorials.com, please contact customer service at: (800) 831-2525. If you believe you have been the victim of a scam, you can file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at: www.consumer.gov/idtheft/. If you have any additional questions about the security at our Web site, you can send an e-mail to help@IBDeditorials.com.

Personal Information You Disclose

Please remember that if you choose to disclose personally identifiable information for public display on our site, it becomes public information and you should exercise caution. This means that your information may be viewed and/or collected and used by third parties without our or your knowledge. Such actions are not under our control and we are not responsible for events arising from your voluntary posting of personal identifiable information board.

Children

IBDeditorials.com and its affiliates do not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13. If such a situation is discovered, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe IBDeditorials.com has any information about or from a child under 13, please contact us at help@IBDeditorials.com.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

These guidelines are subject to change. All changes will be posted on this page. If the changes are significant we will notify registered users by email. We encourage you to review our privacy policy periodically to remain informed of changes that may have occurred.

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