Online Privacy Policy for Investools Inc.
Investools Inc. and its affiliates ("Investools", "us" or "we") appreciate that you may be concerned about the privacy of personal information that you provide to us through our Web site located at www.investools.com. Accordingly, we have developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of Investools' policy and practice regarding information we collect about you on our Web site. If you have additional questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our offline practices for personal information you may provide to Investools through means other than our Web site.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
Voluntary Information Provided by You: Our Web sites collect certain personal information whenever you voluntarily provide it, such as when you complete an online form to request information about our products or services, register for our seminars, or arrange a one-on-one tour of the Investor Toolbox®. The personal information you provide can include such items as your name, company, e-mail and U.S. mail addresses, and your telephone and fax numbers.
We use this information to provide information you request, register you for our seminars, or contact you when requested. Some seminars are provided by third parties with which we have various business arrangements. If you register for one of these seminars, the information you provide will be forwarded to the seminar provider. If you check the box that you would like to be notified about upcoming events or special offers from Investools, then we will also send you this information.
At least one of our Web site pages contains an invitation to join an e-mail list. For example, you may ask to automatically receive Investools financial information. If you join an e-mail list, you will receive e-mail containing updates and news relevant to the subject matter you requested. If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails, instructions on how to unsubscribe from the list are set forth at the bottom of each message.
We do not sell or provide this personal information to third parties for their use except in connection with seminars provided by those third parties.
In addition, Investools controls a family of companies. These companies are referred to as affiliates. We may provide nonpublic personal information about you as a customer, former customer or user of our Web site to our affiliates if the information is required to allow the affiliate to inform you about products or services that we believe may be of benefit or interest to you.
We reserve the right to disclose personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, to comply with valid legal processes such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, to comply with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to provide services that you have requested or to protect our rights and property.
Web Site Usage Information: We employ "cookies" to collect information about you and your usage of our Web site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer and collects information about how you use our site. If you are a customer of Investools who has logged into the site, we also gather information about your individual use of our services, such as types of data accessed, times and volume of use, duration of sessions and other similar usage or system data. If you are not logged into our site but are browsing the site's public areas, we log IP addresses and domain names. This information is aggregated for system administration and to monitor our site's usage. However, we cannot use this technical information to identify you personally. It is utilized to measure the number of visits to our site, average time spent, number of pages viewed and to monitor various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us evaluate how visitors use and navigate our site so we can improve the content.
If we sell a business division to another company and your personal information is used by that business, then your personal information may be transferred to the buyer along with the business, so they may use it in the same way.
How Your Information Is Protected
Investools takes reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality of your nonpublic personal information, including physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards as required by law. We continually review our security procedures and mechanisms to ensure that reasonable protections are in place.
Links to Other Sites
Our sites may contain links to third-party sites that are not under our control, including those of our strategic partners and other sites with information that we feel may be useful to you. Investools is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of these other sites. Accordingly, we recommend that you review their privacy policies.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may amend this Privacy Policy by posting it to our site and changing the date on this page noting when it was last updated.
Miscellaneous
Our site is operated and controlled by Investools in the United States, and is intended for use only by people within the United States. We make no representations that any materials on our site are appropriate for use outside of the United States.
We also do not intend for our site to be used by children under the age of 13, nor do we seek to collect information about children under this age. If you are under the age of 13, we request that you do not provide us with any personal information.
Effective Date: July 12, 2007
