Privacy Policy

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Fools Network collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Fools Network’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Fools Network’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Fools Network may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Fools Network also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The Fools Network does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Fools Network’s websites choose to interact with The Fools Network in ways that require The Fools Network to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Fools Network gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an eNewsletter at TwitterFools.com to provide a name and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The Fools Network – by purchasing an item or service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Fools Network collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Fools Network. The Fools Network does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

The Fools Network may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Fools Network may monitor the most popular blogs on the TwitterFools.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Fools Network may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Fools Network does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Fools Network discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Fools Network’s behalf or to provide services available at The Fools Network’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Fools Network’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Fools Network will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Fools Network discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Fools Network believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Fools Network, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of one of The Fools Network website and have supplied your email address, The Fools Network may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Fools Network and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Fools Network takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Fools Network uses cookies to help The Fools Network identify and track visitors, their usage of The Fools Network website, and their website access preferences. The Fools Network visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Fools Network’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Fools Network’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Fools Network and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Fools Network may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Fools Network’s sole discretion. The Fools Network encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

How you can contact us about Privacy questions:

If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should contact us by using _this form_ or by writing to us directly at The Fools Network, Attn: Privacy Department, 130 S Main St., Winter Garden Florida, 34787