Money and Markets: Privacy

Privacy

PRIVACY STATEMENT
Our company is committed to preserving your trust and confidence. Because your privacy is important, we have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate this commitment. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

ADVERTISING
We partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites.  Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.  If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here http://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising.  You will continue to receive generic ads.

USE OF YOUR IP ADDRESS
An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. It is a unique identifier for a computer or device on a network like the Internet. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to gather broad information to help us better serve you.

COOKIES
A “cookie” is a small piece of information that is stored by your Internet browser software on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are commonly used to facilitate secure website connections via a unique user name and password, so that you can buy things in an online store and access services that are in password protected areas of a site. They also may be used to facilitate automatic log-in (you can save your own user name and password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit). Cookies are used to authenticate website users and keep track of the user session. They allow us to better analyze our site’s traffic patterns and to provide improved content, throughput, advertisements, products and services. They help us to refine and enhance the visitor registration process and add personalization features to customize the site to your needs. Cookies also help identify information that we may need to better serve you should there be any problems with your use of this site. This kind of information may include the web browser you use, the type of computer, the operating system, the Internet service providers, and other similar information. This information is used for various personalization features. We may share this information with our partners, suppliers, and other third parties so that they can better serve you too. We may sometimes display advertisements on this site from companies outside of our own. These ads may contain their own cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our website, cookies received with electronic ads are collected by these other companies, and we do not have access to this information. Select customer data may be shared with the advertising companies.

COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA
Our site’s registration form requires users to give us contact information (such as name and e-mail address), unique identifiers, and demographic information (such as sex or age). We use this information to enhance the site so that it can offer you a more personalized experience. We also use the information to communicate information about our company, promotional material such as contests, questionnaires and surveys, and promotional material from some of our partners. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings by using the tool explained in the “Updating and Removal of Data” section below. Unique identifiers are collected to verify the user’s identity, for use as account numbers in our record system, and for other purposes. Demographic profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the user experience, showing you content that is most likely to be of interest to you, and displaying the content according to your preferences..

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
As an active subscriber to Money and Markets and/or Uncommon Wisdom, you may receive third party advertisements. These offers are paid advertisements provided by our external partners or external advertisers. “Third party advertisements will often indicate that the sender is “Weiss Research Advertising,” “Partner Advertising,” “Weiss Advertising Sponsors,” or a name that uses similar terms.” If you click on these offers you will be proceeding under the terms of that third party advertiser’s privacy policy. Most offers will be sent from Weiss Research, Inc. Weiss Research is not responsible for the content of these advertisements. Weiss Research makes no guarantee or warranty about what is advertised, and no coupon or special Weiss Research, Inc. offer will be valid with these third party advertisements at any time. If you wish to opt out of our advertising policy, click here.

LINKS TO WEBSITES OUTSIDE OF THIS ONE
This site contains links to other sites outside of our own network. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

CUSTOMER ORDER INFORMATION
Our site uses order forms for customers to request information, products and services. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders, communicate information and promotional material from our company and partner companies. Financial information that is collected is used to bill you for products and services ordered.

SECURITY
The security of your information is of concern to us. When you place orders on this site, your information is transmitted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. Furthermore, we have implemented industry standard security mechanisms and procedures to protect data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. While we are focused on the security of your information, no security is 100% effective and we cannot promise (and you should not expect), that your information will remain secure in all circumstances.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We share the information that you provide to us in the following circumstances:

  1. Service Providers. From time to time we may share information with companies and individuals who provide servicing, administrative, marketing and other services for us, or on our behalf. These services may include fulfillment centers, mailing houses, event providers, and customer support organizations.
  2. Affiliates. From time to time we may share information with our affiliates. These include (a) companies that we own or control, companies that own or control us, or companies that are owned or controlled by the same companies that own or control us. Such information may be used by our affiliates to promote their products and services to you. Where such information sharing occurs, our affiliates will follow the terms contained in this policy.
  3. Third Parties. From time to time we may share your contact information with third parties so that they may promote their products and services to you.
  4. Law Enforcement. We may cooperate with reasonable requests for information from law enforcement agencies. As a result, we reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we reasonably believe to be unlawful, or that we reasonably believe may aid a law enforcement investigation into unlawful activity. In addition, we reserve the right to release your information to law enforcement agencies if we determine, in our sole judgment, that either you have violated our policies, or the release of your information may protect our, your, or another person’s rights, property or safety.
  5. Other Persons As Permitted by Law. We may share your information with others as required by, or permitted by, law. This may include sharing your information with governmental entities, or third parties in response to subpoenas, court orders, other legal process, or as we believe is necessary to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims that have been brought against us, or possible legal claims that we determine in our sole discretion might be brought against us.
  6. Transfers. In the event that all, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired, your information will be transferred to the acquiring company.

NOTICE
If we are legally required to notify you about a security incident we will either notify you by e-mail, writing, or phone at our discretion.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
This site supplements the information that you provide with information that is received from third parties. For example, your address may be run against the U.S. postal service database in an effort to correct any typographical errors, so that the publications you seek will indeed arrive at the right location.

UPDATING AND REMOVAL OF DATA
You may have your name removed from our e-mail marketing lists at any time, by visiting the Money and Markets e-mail preference control center at http://www.emailpreferencecenter.com and adjusting your communication preferences. Please read the information in this area very carefully so that you do not inadvertently discontinue the receipt of materials that you actually do wish to receive. You can send a request by mail to the following postal address: Weiss Research, Inc., 4400 Northcorp Parkway, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

CONTACTING THE WEBSITE
If you have any questions about this statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can use our online form, call 1-800-291-8545, or write:
Money and Markets Website
4400 Northcorp Parkway
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

CHANGES AND CLARIFICATIONS
We reserve the right to modify, amend, or clarify this policy at any time by posting a revised privacy policy on our website.

Effective Date: September 27, 2010