Broker Insider (the “Website,” or “we”) is committed to providing privacy in our products and services. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices. If you give us personal information, we treat it according to this policy, and we use your personal information only in the ways specified when it was collected. We do not otherwise share it. Broker Insider encourages you to read this privacy policy and those of all websites you visit.
Types and Uses of Personal Information
In order to post comments on the Website, you must first create an account with a username and password; we use these to provide you with access to your profile and comments. Our registration system also requires that you provide a valid email address; we use that to confirm your account. Accounts in our system are perpetual. If you change the information in your account, our stored data backups may include your original information for up to six months. Separately, when you email us, we retain your address and correspondence. We use these to raise and respond to issues and inquiries of all types.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We may share aggregated demographic information about our reader base with third-party advertising partners [see “Third-party Advertisers”], including browser information and traffic statistics. We do not link this data to individual readers’ accounts or personally identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Information
We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties, with one limited exception: we may disclose personally identifiable information about you if we have a good faith belief that doing so is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site.
We use both short-term cookies and persistent cookies. A short-term cookie expires within a limited period of time. We use session cookies so that readers with accounts can navigate and contribute to our site without logging in multiple times over a short period of time. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We use persistent cookies to recognize account holders and present the site accordingly. We also use cookies to track visitors and their usage of Broker Insider website. Broker Insider also utilizes cookies to track visitor sales of outside “products” (books, software, stock broker accounts, newsletters, electronics, etc.) and “services” (free or paid subscriptions) and is compensated directly or indirectly for doing so.
You can remove cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as comments, will require logging in for each action you want to take. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Broker Insider only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. [See “Third-party Advertisers.”] Certain features of the Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Third-Party Advertisers
Broker Insider uses third-party advertising partners and other business partners like Commission Junction and LinkShare to deliver ads on the Website and to track user behavior after they click on advertiser links. These partners may place or recognize unique cookies on your browser and use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services, as well as to compensate Broker Insider for certain actions taken as a result of these advertisements. The information collected does not include personally identifiable information like your name, address, email address or telephone number. It does include IP addresses, though these are not tied to individual readers’ accounts. We have no access to or control over these third-party cookies.
Links to Other Sites
This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Broker Insider. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Website.
Changes in This Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.