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We respect and are committed to protecting your
privacy. This privacy policy lets you know how your
personal information is processed and used. We
promise that we will take steps to use your personal
information only in ways that are compatible with
this Privacy Policy.
The following policies are in effect for the web
pages, newsletters and opt-in announcement lists
owned and operated by Stillwell Marketing
Associates, Inc. ("SMA Network"), which includes
CTA-Info.com.
Technical Information
Collected
Every computer connected to the Internet is given a
domain name and a set of numbers known as the
"Internet Protocol" IP address. Like most web
servers, when a visitor requests a page from any Web
Site within the SMA Network our servers
automatically recognize and log that visitor's
domain name, IP address, access times, referring web
sites, platform, and browser type. This information
reveals nothing personal about you other than the IP
address from which you have accessed our site. We
use these logs to provide statistics about our Web
site usage in aggregate, to assist us in the
maintenance, design, and operation of our Web site,
and to investigate misuse of the SMA Network, its
users, or to cooperate with law enforcement. We do
not collect and evaluate this information for
specific individuals. Our Web servers do not
automatically record e-mail addresses of the
visitors.
Information on Cookies
When using our sites, SMA or its advertisers may
send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a
small piece of data that is sent to your browser
from a web server and stored on your computer's hard
drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk
or read cookie files created by other Web sites.
Cookies do not damage your system. We use cookies to
identify which areas of SMA's Network of Web Sites
you have visited, personalized or customized, so the
next time you visit those pages may be readily
accessible. Our advertisers may also use cookies to
ascertain how many times you've seen an
advertisement. We and our advertisers may use this
information to better personalize the content and
promotions that you see on our Site. You can choose
whether to accept cookies by changing the settings
of your browser. You can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show
you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not
to accept these cookies, your experience at our site
and other Web sites will not work as intended.
Registration Data
SMA offers access to services that are free but that
may require registration. We will use your
registration contact information to send
notification of SMA products and services by e-mail
and/or postal mail. We also may share that
information with our affiliates and clients. Our
affiliates and clients may send you promotional
material that is related to the topic of the service
for which you registered unless you have chosen not
to receive it. SMA reserves the right to send to our
registered members email notices and announcements
that may be of interest to SMA users. TO NOT RECEIVE
ANY COMMUNICATION FROM SMA, MEMBERS SHOULD REQUEST
THAT THEIR REGISTRATION BE CANCELLED. We respect and
will honor all requests to correct, erase, or
otherwise act in our visitor's wishes in regards to
the use of their data.
Email Announcements and Opting-out
We will most likely also request your e-mail address
and other personal information for the purposes of
providing additional services (for example,
subscriptions to email newsletters or updates).
Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we
will clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry
before the information is requested. You can
unsubscribe from our newsletters or updates at the
following link
or by following the instructions at the bottom of
every email.
Through our Web site you may also subscribe to
promotional announcements from our partners. Our
site provides users the opportunity to choose or
opt-out of receiving communications from SMA sites
and our partners at the point where we request
information about the visitor. For example, during
our Free Report sign up for the Free Report on
Trading we will ask if it is alright to send these
promotional announcements. If you do not wish to
receive the announcements you have the ability to
opt-out.
Third-Party Offers
Some advertisers we work with are interested in
acquiring leads for their sale force by providing
offers that qualify visitors. For example, a
brokerage might provide a free book on trading in
order to reach and advertise to that audience. (This
is known as cost-per-lead advertising (CPL) or
co-registration.)
With third-party offers user data is collected by
our webservers and sent to the advertiser who then
fulfills the offer. After data is sent to the
advertiser we have no way to control how it is used
because it has left our system. We always attempt to
deal with reputable companies who respect user
privacy but we cannot guarantee, or be liable for,
any misuse of visitor data as a result of a
third-party offer on our site. If you have
experienced a problem with one of our advertisers,
please
tell us.
Single-pixel Images
SMA and its advertisers may use single-pixel gif
images, sometimes referred to as web bugs or web
beacons, to count Web page accesses and gather some
general statistical information. SMA does not gather
personal information through the use of these
images. Our advertisers may use single-pixel gifs
that can track personal information from cookies
that may have been previously placed on a user's
computer by an advertiser.
Disclosure Where Required by Law
SMA will disclose personal information and/or an IP
address, when required by law or in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to:
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Cooperate
with the investigations of purported unlawful
activities or comply with legal process served
on SMA,
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Protect and
defend the rights or property of the SMA Network
and related properties, or visitors to the SMA
Network and related properties,
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Identify
persons who may be violating the law, website
terms of use,
the rights of third parties, or otherwise
misusing the SMA Network or its related
properties.
Security of Data
SMA uses reasonable precautions to keep the
information disclosed to us secure. SMA reserves the
right to transfer all such information in connection
with the sale of all or part of SMA's capital stock
or assets. Furthermore, we are not responsible for
any breach of security or for any actions of any
third parties that receive the information. We are
not responsible for such third party privacy
policies or how they treat information about their
users.
Third Party Links
The SMA Network of Web sites contains many
hyperlinks to other Web sites and from Affiliate Web
sites. The SMA Web Sites may also contain
advertisements of third parties. SMA is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content
of such Web sites or advertisers. SMA does not share
any of the individual personal information you
provide SMA with the websites to which SMA links,
except as stated elsewhere within this Privacy
Policy, although SMA may share aggregate data with
such websites (such as how many people use our
site).
Your Consent to This Agreement
By using our Web site, you consent to the collection
and use of information by SMA as specified above. If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on this page so that you are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it,
and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Please send any questions about SMA's Privacy Policy
to:
SMA,
Inc.
350 South Center Street
Suite 500
Reno, NV 89501-2161 |
