Revised
and posted as of: December, 2003
Stockheadline is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please
read the following statement to understand how your personal information
will be treated as you make full use of the Stockheadline Web site.
The Stockheadline Web site is owned and operated by StockHeadline.
Gathering of Information Voluntary Submission Stockheadline does not
collect personally identifying information about any individual Stockheadline
Web site user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For
example, we may ask you for information when you register to receive
a newsletter or to use our online stock and options portfolio. You
always have the option not to provide the information we request.
If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still
visit most of the Stockheadline Web site, but you may be unable to
access certain options and services.
Cookies
A cookie is a data
file that certain Web sites write to your computer's
hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file
can contain information, such as a user identification
code, that the site uses to track the pages you have
visited. Stockheadline uses cookies solely to
track user traffic patterns throughout the Stockheadline
Web site and to allow you access to "member only"
section of the site. We use this data on an anonymous
basis and we do not correlate this information with
personal data of any user.
Most Web site browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
change your browser settings to display a warning
before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies.
However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies
from our Web site, you may not be able to use certain
features of the site.
Browser Level Information
Stockheadline Web
servers automatically collect information about a
site user's IP address, browser type and referrer
by reading this information from the user's browser
(information provided by every user's browser). This
information is collected in a database and used--in
an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis
of traffic patterns within our Web site. This information
is automatically logged by most Web sites.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in
collecting user information is to enhance your experience
on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other
things, providing interactive communications such
as our electronic newsletters to the e-mail address
that you provide to us, and developing future editorial
content based on your interests. To develop content
targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user
information to determine which areas of our Web site
users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We
do not track what individual users read, but instead
how well each page or content area performs overall.
Stockheadline is
a free Web site and we derive revenues from advertising.
In order to attract and retain advertisers we use
the aggregated, anonymous information that we gather
(as well as information from third-party market researchers)
to describe our services to partners and to assist
our advertisers and sponsors to better understand
our audience. This is essential to keeping our service
free of charge to our users. We do not disclose personally
identifying information about our users to these parties.
Stockheadline may
also disclose information about our users when we
believe, in good faith, that the disclosure is required
by law.
When you are on an
area of Stockheadline and are asked for personal
information, you are sharing that information with
Stockheadline as well as business partners and
vendors providing hosting and other services for Stockheadline.
If you do not want your information to be shared,
you can choose not to allow the transfer of your information
by not using that particular service. These parties,
as well as advertisers who contract directly with
a third-party service to serve their advertisements,
may set their own cookies.
In addition, any personally
identifiable information provided by our users as
part of an advertiser promotion online may be provided
directly to advertisers.
Please be aware that
Stockheadline sponsors, advertisers or Web sites
that have links on our site may collect personally
identifiable information about you. The information
practices of those parties and Web sites linked to
Stockheadline are not covered by this privacy
statement. Stockheadline users should also be
aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal
information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that
information may be collected by others and may result
in unsolicited messages from others.
Kids under 13: Do not
send any information about yourself to us--including
information such as your name, address, or e-mail
address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under 13. In the event that
we learn we have collected any personal information
from a child under the age of 13 without verification
of parental consent, we will delete that information
from our database as quickly as possible.
This statement may
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