Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the InvestorFace website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. Any personal information which is provided voluntarily by our visitors is used to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. InvestorFace does not sell, trade, or rent personal information provided by our visitors to others. InvestorFace is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. What personally identifiable information does InvestorFace collect from me? Some personal information is gathered when you register with us. You can choose not to register or not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. During registration, InvestorFace asks for your username, password, e-mail address and you birthday to verify your age - this is the only required information that we will ask you to provide. Once you register, you are no longer anonymous to InvestorFace - you are given your personal Profile page and are able to take full advantage of InvestorFace's offerings. Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. InvestorFace automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address and cookie information. InvestorFace may also add on any page display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes member cards and profile pages. InvestorFace allows other users to browse recommendations that you have submitted or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile; InvestorFace may choose to post this data on other site features in the future. InvestorFace allows other users to browse your full name, location, education, investment experience and URL within your member card and member profile should you provide this optional information. What are cookies and how do we use them? As part of providing our services, InvestorFace uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All areas on InvestorFace where you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies. Generally, we use cookies to: To enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services. Measure certain traffic patterns, which pages of our website you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on InvestorFace a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content and features that you and other users will see on our site. How does InvestorFace use my information? InvestorFace's primary goal in collecting information about our users is to provide you, the user, with a valuable experience on our site. We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone. InvestorFace will disclose information about individual users to governmental or judicial authorities or law enforcement agencies, or to other individuals or entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes. Further, InvestorFace may share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud, or to enforce or apply the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of InvestorFace, such as an acquisition by or merger with another company. In such an event, InvestorFace will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. InvestorFace will notify you when information about you may be provided to third parties in ways other than explained above, and you will have the option to prevent such information sharing. Controlling Your Personal Information You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g. e-mail address) via member profile, postings, reviews or in other areas of the InvestorFace site, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of InvestorFace. Please do not post any personal information on the InvestorFace site or in other areas that you expect to keep private. As a registered InvestorFace user, you can modify your personal information at any time by accessing the "My Account" section of the site. Also, upon your request, InvestorFace will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove you and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained by InvestorFace. Registered users who wish to close their account should use Contact Us Is My Information Secure? Your InvestorFace account is password-protected. We try very hard to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. You hereby acknowledge that InvestorFace is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner. Can InvestorFace be used by a person under 18 years old? You must be 18 years and older to register to use the InvestorFace website. As a result, InvestorFace does not specifically collect information about anybody under the age of 18. Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement By using the website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the site. InvestorFace may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it. Your continued use of the site indicates your assent to any changes to this Privacy Policy.