ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY
No Count Stay Out LLC ("NCSO", "Company", "we", or "us") is committed to respecting and protecting your personal privacy. This Privacy Policy, including any future modifications and/or addenda (collectively the "Privacy Policy"), applies to all personal information we may collect through your use of Investors.com (the "Site") and any other sites, applications, software, features, events, surveys or studies, or content offered by us from time to time that link or otherwise refer to this Privacy Policy (collectively, including the Site, the "Services"), whether as a guest or a registered user. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "personal information" means information that relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household.
This Privacy Policy is effective with respect to all information that we have collected from you, or will collect from you in the future. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Services. BY ACCESSING AND/OR USING THE SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND AND ABIDE BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF USE AVAILABLE AT https://www.nocountstayout.com/SUBSCRIBER-LOGIN/TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS (THE "TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE") INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE AND TO COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS (COLLECTIVELY, "APPLICABLE LAWS"). If you do not want to agree to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, you must not access or use the Services.
HOW DOES THE COMPANY USE YOUR INFORMATION?
We may use your information, including, any of your personal information, as follows:
TO PROVIDE & IMPROVE THE SERVICES
The Company, our service providers, Business Partners, and other third parties use the information collected from the Services to provide the Services to you and other users. This includes, without limitation, maintaining, measuring, and enhancing users' experiences on our Services, providing you with information, products or services, and fulfilling offers that you request from us, developing new products and services, understanding and resolving issues with the Services (e.g., bugs in an app), serving you relevant advertisements and content on the Services and third party services, and protecting you, your data, other users, other users' data, and the Services.
We will share your information to allow service providers and other third parties to assist in providing and managing the Services. We use your information to provide and improve the Services, for example, improving algorithms, determining usage patterns, and to provide customer support. Please note that if you telephone us, or if we call you, the call may be recorded for quality, training, and/or management purposes; online interactions may be recorded for similar purposes.Financial information (such as a credit card number and expiration date) is used for billing purposes, including, without limitation, order tracking and fraud detection/prevention. If we have trouble processing an order, this information is used to get in touch with the user. By submitting such information, you agree that this information may be shared with third parties for purposes of facilitating the completion of any purchase transaction initiated by you or on your behalf.
Further, in order for us to enhance our ability to tailor the Services to an individual's preference, we may combine information about the purchasing habits of users with similar information from our business partners, to create a personalized user profile. When a user makes a purchase from the Company, its business partners, or its affiliates, the companies may collect and share that purchase information so we can tailor the Services to our users' preferences.
TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU
We use your personal information to send information to you about your account, products and services, and to notify you about issues with, or changes to, the Services or our policies. We generally communicate with users via email, web chat, and/or by telephone. By using the Services, you agree that the Company and/or our agents may email, call, or text you regarding the Services, including communicating with you about your account, your interactions with the Services, and/or your transactions. By providing your home telephone number or mobile number, you acknowledge and agree that the Company may make calls and texts to such number via use of an automatic telephone dialing system ("ATDS") or another similar announcing device. However, it should be noted that consent to receive phone calls via an ATDS is not a required condition for purchasing any goods or services from the Company. You agree that we may listen to and record phone conversations you have with us for training purposes and/or to evaluate the quality of our service.
We may also send you marketing or other promotional materials, including but not limited to newsletters, educational materials, and/or surveys. The Company may also communicate with you regarding special offers from the Company and/or its Business Partners; for example, the Company and its Business Partners may make various email series and one-time emails available to the recipients in our database to help them get the most value from our products and services. If you do not wish to receive these communications, you may opt-out, as described below in the section entitled "How Can I Change my Email Communication Preferences." The Company will not send you marketing messages if you have opted out.
However, users should note that you cannot opt-out of receiving certain administrative communications and the Company reserves the right to send such messages via email and/or by phone to facilitate agreed upon transactions or update customers about existing business relationships. Such "administrative" communications include, but are not limited to, transactional messages, business relationship messages, welcome emails, transaction receipts, billing notifications, renewal notices, notification of activation of online privileges, technical support responses, announcement updates related to the Site and/or other Services, and/or other communications required to service customers' accounts and/or customers' subscriptions with the Company or its Business Partners. Users cannot unsubscribe from these email messages, which contain important information about the Services.
TO FULFILL OTHER PURPOSES THAT YOU HAVE CONSENTED TO
Your information will also be used to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information or otherwise provide your consent for the Company and/or other third parties to use such information.
FOR WHAT PURPOSES DOES THE COMPANY USE OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSES
As the Company is part of a larger group of related companies, it may be necessary for the Company to transmit your personal information within the organizational group. Processing may be necessary so that data can be shared amongst our affiliates so that each entity can carry out their legal, regulatory, and/or contractual responsibilities and/or coordinate/implement business plans, logistics, and/or operations. This is especially true because the Company's affiliated entities may perform critical services for the Company, such as services related to: accounting, compliance, human resources, information technology and security, legal, management, etc.
OPERATIONAL PURPOSES
Processing your personal information will likely be necessary to facilitate the day-to-day operation of our business and to allow for business planning for strategic growth. This may include: managing our relationship with you, our employees, other users/clients, vendors, Business Partners, and/or others; sharing intelligence with internal stakeholders; implementing training procedures; planning and allocating resources and budgets; performing data modelling; facilitating internal reporting; analyzing growth strategies; aggregating analytics; and/or processing personal information to create anonymized data (e.g., for product improvement, analytics, etc.).
LOGISTICAL PURPOSES
Processing your personal information will likely be necessary to enable the Company's business operations to run more efficiently, e.g., establishing how to allocate resources or to predict future demand.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES
Processing your personal information will likely be necessary for us to deliver and/or improve our products and services. This includes processing your personal information to determine whether a product or service is working as intended, monitoring usage and conduct, and identifying and troubleshooting issues.
PERSONALIZATION PURPOSES
We may process personal information in order to enhance and personalize the "consumer experience" we offer our current and/or prospective users/customers in our products and services.
DIRECT COMMUNICATION PURPOSES
Processing your personal information may be necessary for direct communication purposes to occasionally update users on the Services, including occasional communications regarding updates to our activities, products, services, and/or events.
FRAUD DETECTION & PREVENTION PURPOSES
Processing your personal information may be necessary for the Company to help detect and prevent fraud, e.g., verifying that the registered address of the cardholder for a particular credit or debit card is the same as the cardholder's normal place of residence or work.
UPDATING CUSTOMER DETAILS & PREFERENCES PURPOSES
Processing your personal information is necessary to verify the accuracy of your user data and to create a better understanding of our past, present, and/or prospective users.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS & REGULATIONS PURPOSES
The Company is subject to binding legal or regulatory obligations and may need to process your personal information in order to comply with such laws or regulations. Examples could include: complying with reporting obligations; complying with screening obligations; responding to law enforcement requests; and/or responding to judicial/regulatory agency requests.
COMPLIANCE WITH INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC SELF-REGULATION PURPOSES
The Company is part of several industry self-regulatory organizations, including the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Such organizations were formed in order to address various concerns, including: developing industry standards and best practices to protect the industry; sharing intelligence or concerns about individuals (e.g., industry-specific watch lists); sharing intelligence or concerns that may have a negative or detrimental impact on the industry; and/or ensuring that participants in the industry are following agreed-upon standards. We may be required to process personal information so that we may stay in compliance with these self-regulatory schemes.
REPORTING POTENTIAL THREATS TO PUBLIC SECURITY & SAFETY PURPOSES
The Company may need to use personal information to report possible criminal acts or threats to public security/safety that we identify as part of our processing activities to a competent authority.
TO FULFILL OTHER PURPOSES THAT YOU HAVE CONSENTED TO
Your information will also be used to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information or otherwise provide your consent for the Company and/or other third parties to use such information.
GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES
We may share your personal information with competent governmental authorities when required by law and/or as necessary to protect the Company, its personnel, other users, and/or the Services.
DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
At this time, the the Services do not recognize or respond to browser's "Do Not Track" signals.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health information, criminal background information, sexual history or sexual orientation information, or trade union membership ("Sensitive Information") and we ask that you do not disclose it on the Services. However, if Sensitive Information is included in your posts on the Services, we will have access to such information described above and such information will be treated in the same way as information that is not sensitive.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY & COMMUNICATING CHANGES
This Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. All changes will be posted on the Site. If the changes are significant we will notify you by email (at the last email we have on file for you) or by prominently posting a notice on our Services (e.g., through a pop-up on our homepage). Changes will become effective as of the earlier of the date we post the revised privacy policy, send an email detailing any changes, or post such a notice. While we will do our best to inform you of any changes, we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you remain informed of changes that may have occurred, including changes that relate to what information we collect, how we use it, and how we share it. BY CONTINUING TO USE THE SERVICES AFTER A CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE, YOU ARE CONFIRMING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AS DETAILED HEREIN.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose your personal information to others. We may share your information to provide information to our representatives, service providers, advisors, corporate affiliates, and business partners, and in the event of a sale, merger, public offering, bankruptcy or other change in control of the Company and/or its affiliates, your information may be shared with the person or business obtaining ownership and control. Your information may be used to protect the rights, including legal rights, and safety of ourselves and others. We may also use your information to enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including, for billing and collection. Furthermore, disclosure of personal information may be required by law where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
Other websites and services to which we link, through which you access the Services, or share information from the Services and which are not owned or controlled by us are not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other web sites or services and any visit you make to those other services is at your own risk. Third parties that support the Services, including by providing advertising or other services, such as analytics, may use tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the Services or other third-party services. We do not control these third-party technologies or services and their use is governed by the privacy policies of third parties using such technologies. Such third party's use of any information you share is governed by the third party's privacy policy.
INTERPRETATION
If any provision of this Privacy Policy (including any attachment) is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or regulatory authority of competent jurisdiction, the rest of this Privacy Policy shall remain valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted under Applicable Laws. To the extent that the main body of this Privacy Policy conflicts with the terms of addenda referenced herein, the addenda will control.
COMPANY CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and/or our privacy practices, please contact NCSO online via https://www.nocountstayout.com/contact-us