Fund.com Privacy Policy
Fund.com Inc. (the “Fund.com”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of Personally-Identifiable Information collected about you. This Privacy Policy applies regardless of how the data is collected, whether through print, electronic media or telephone. Personally-Identifiable Information refers to information about you, including your e-mail address, billing information, and employment status, collected by Fund.com from any source.
We have adopted a Privacy Policy that guides how we collect, store and use this Personally-Identifiable Information about our Web site users, customers and prospects. Our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using this Personally-Identifiable Information against your reasonable expectations of privacy. In some instances, Personally-Identifiable Information about a large number of individuals is aggregated by Fund.com. The aggregated form of this information would not, under most circumstances, constitute Personally-Identifiable Information.
The Privacy Policy followed by Fund.com includes the general principles described below. In addition our Privacy Policy is periodically reviewed and updated to ensure that it reflects the most current legal restrictions and technologies. This Privacy Policy includes the following:
- Notice. We will keep you notified as to the uses we intend to make of the Personally-Identifiable Information we collect from you. For example, we need to collect and store your name, address, and other basic Personally-Identifiable Information to provide you with the service or product you requested and for billing purposes. This Information enables us to develop and customize products to better meet your needs and preferences and to offer you products from Fund.com that may be of interest to you.
- Collection and Security. We will only collect Personally-Identifiable Information to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to serve our legitimate business purposes and we will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of this Personally-Identifiable Information.
- Sensitive Data. If your relationship with us includes providing Fund.com with Sensitive Data, we will protect that information with extra care. We define “Sensitive Data” as a subset of Personally-Identifiable Information, which includes Social Security numbers, age, mother's maiden name, personal financial data such as salary-specific information, specific stock holdings and net worth, information regarding someone's specific medical condition and most information about children. Because Fund.com recognizes the sensitivity of this information, there will be no distribution of this Sensitive Data to either external parties or other divisions of the Fund.com.
- Review and Correction. You can access and make changes to the Personally-Identifiable Information that the Fund.com has collected about you, in appropriate places within our Web site.
Privacy Policy
- 1. GENERAL PRIVACY TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- 1.1 Fund.com is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of users of our Web site and interactive products and services.
- 1.2 This Privacy Policy applies to www.fund.com and all of the Internet accessible Fund.com branded websites and services, which we may offer from time to time. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you, our visitor, what types of information we may gather about you when visiting our site and how we may use that information. We will also inform you whether we disclose your information to anyone and if so, under what conditions, as well as the choices you have regarding our use of the information.
- 1.3 In general, our service automatically gathers certain usage information, such as; numbers and frequency of visitors to Fund.com and the areas visited. This collective data helps us determine how much our customers use various areas of the site, so we can improve our Web site and services.
- 1.4 Fund.com cookies do not collect personally identifiable information and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personally identifiable information to tell us who you are. Most browsers are set to accept cookies. You can set yours to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so please note that some part of our Web site may not function properly.
- 1.5 We may provide information to other partners about how our members use Fund.com. We do this to provide you the best Web experience possible and to improve the site in general.
- 1.6 Fund.com does not separately identify, or collect, any information that is specific to children.
- 1.7 Our Web site's registration forms generally require contact information (like name and email address) and demographic information (like zip code, age, and income level). We will not disclose your personal information to any third parties unless we are compelled by law or, in our sole discretion, whenever we believe an emergency, illegal activity or some other reasonable basis exists for notifying or providing such information to the appropriate authorities. We reserve the right, directly or through our designated marketing agents, to distribute promotional materials to you for Fund.com products or for products of our marketing partners. Such promotions will be for products believed to be of interest to our user base. Your personal information shall remain in the possession of Fund.com or its designated marketing agent at all times. We sometimes aggregate information about our users and you agree we can use and make such statistical information available to others, as long as we don't identify you personally. Fund.com gives users the option to opt out or discontinue promotional communications from (a) within promotional emails, and/or (b) within the registration area of each Fund.com Web site or web based application. In addition, to stop receiving special announcements from Fund.com, users can email unsubscribe@Fund.com and type UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
- 2. USE OF COOKIES
- A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web Page server. It is essentially your identification card, and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely yours and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. Our service may place one or more cookies on your computer. These cookies may be used to remind us who you are and what features or premium services you have registered for or to estimate our audience size and target marketing based on user interest. Advertisers on our Service may also use cookies. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These third-party advertising companies typically employ cookie and 1x1 pixel .gif technology to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our Web site and other Web sites. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, the IP address. This information can also be used for online preference marketing purposes. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from setting and/or reading cookies on your computer, currently you may either visit each ad network's web site individually and opt out or visit the National Advertising Initiative ("NAI") gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network-advertising cookies. Click here for the NAI gateway opt-out. This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies' privacy policies. If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us by clicking here.
- 3. LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND PRIVACY
- Users will find advertising or other content on our Web site that link to a site or services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. In many cases, the links represent cooperative projects or are mutual links established with persons or entities connected with our Web site. Although we initially visit the sites or services that are so linked, we do not control the content or links that appear on these sites. In addition, these sites or services, including their contents and links may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies or no policy at all, as such; we accept no liability for their policies.
- We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use session information (this information does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
- 4. CREDIT CARD SECURITY/PRIVACY POLICY
- Protecting your privacy and your information is a top priority for us. We have taken careful measures to secure both your information and our premises. We exercise great care in the transfer of information from your PC to our servers. Our credit card secure server software encrypts information, ensuring that all Internet credit card transactions remain private.
- 5. POLICY CHANGES
- Should we make changes to our privacy policy or disclosure we will post such changes under the appropriate heading, here on our Web site, so that you will always know what information we gather and how we might use that information.
- 6. RELEASE OF INFORMATION
- As a general rule, Fund.com will not make your personal information available to anyone outside of Fund.com and its affiliates -- except as instructed by you or where required to comply with law. Please note, however, that there are several exceptions to this policy. First, service providers may have access to your personal information to perform contractually specified services on behalf of Fund.com or You. Second, if you indicate that you are interested in receiving information about a particular third party's products/services, or you opt to receive certain products or services through Fund.com, we may provide your personal information to that third party for purposes of fulfilling your request(s). In either case, Fund.com normally limits access to your personal information to those third parties that have agreed to keep it confidential.
- Fund.com may provide links to one or more third-party Web sites. Since we do not control these sites and are not responsible for any personal information you may provide while on such sites, we encourage you to read their individual privacy policies before providing any of your personal information to them.
- 7. ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
- By using the Fund.com Web site you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy please do not use our Web site. Your continued use of the Fund.com site following the posting of any subsequent changes to these Privacy Policy terms and conditions will mean that you have accepted such changes.
- 8. QUESTIONS
- Questions concerning our Privacy Policy may be addressed to privacy@fund.com.
- 9. REVISION
- Last revision date: January 20, 2009


