TickerHound

Privacy Policy

TickerHound ("TickerHound") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.TickerHound.com or other web sites owned or operated by TickerHound (the "TickerHound Sites") (collectively or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the TickerHound Sites. TickerHound provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the TickerHound Sites.

Please note that any content posted by Users onto the TickerHound Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.

The Information TickerHound Collects

• registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, birth date or gender);
• information about your visits to TickerHound Sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these Web sites and pages;
• information about the searches you perform through the TickerHound Sites and how you use the results of those searches;
• information about the TickerHound services or offerings that you use, and how frequently you use them;
• other information specifically related to your use of a particular TickerHound service or offering.

How TickerHound uses your Information

• To operate and improve the Web sites, services and offerings available through the TickerHound Sites;
• To personalize the content and advertisements provided to you;
• To fulfill your requests for programs and services;
• To communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
• To conduct research about your use of the TickerHound sites

When TickerHound Discloses Information

• We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.


• We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.


• We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the TickerHound Sites.


• We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.


• TickerHound also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that TickerHound believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TickerHound, our Users or others.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the TickerHound Sites, in which case TickerHound may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your Profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the TickerHound Sites cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Please contact TickerHound with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices by e-mailing tickerhound@tickerhound.com.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

TickerHound allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the TickerHound Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the TickerHound Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

TickerHound does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks TickerHound to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the TickerHound Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. TickerHound's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
 

Regarding Network Security

TickerHound  has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your TickerHound Account information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the Network and its affiliated providers). To protect your privacy and security, the TickerHound uses passwords to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to any of your TickerHound Account information.

The Importance of Childrens' Privacy

TickerHound is intended for a general audience, and children under the age of thirteen are not permitted to register with TickerHound. If any of TickerHound's affiliated providers offers a site directed toward children, or knowingly collects information from children, that affiliated provider is required to provide you information about its practices for the handling of children's online data through its privacy policy.

For International Users

The TickerHound Sites are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the TickerHound Sites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the TickerHound Sites, which are governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that TickerHound is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the TickerHound Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.

Date Last Modified:

This Privacy Notice was last modified December 5th, 2007.

Contact Information:

Please contact TickerHound with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice by e-mailing: tickerhound@tickerhound.com