Disclosures and Privacy Policies of FinancialWidgets.com
Disclosure and Privacy Policies of FinancialWidgets.com
(These policies are valid from October 21, 2009)
FinancialWidgets.com is a personal blog written, edited and maintained by myself. Please contact Patrick at http://scr.im/finwidgets if you have any questions.
Disclosure Policy:
What is offered on this website are my own ideas, opinions, personal advice and trading ideas, I am not trained, licensed, certified, or anything else that would make me a replacement for qualified, professional advice, nor does it replace prudent personal or professional due diligence. Everything on this website is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. I hope you get a lot out of Financial Widgets but should you feel a need or desire to use any information offered, please consult the appropriate expert be it a professional in the financial field or a good psychiatrist. All risks are yours alone to take.
Compensation:
FinancialWidgets.com will never be compensated for an opinion of any product, services, website, etc. Any opinions expressed here are purely that of the blog owner(s). Any claim or endorsement will only be for products we believe in and have deemed worthy based on our own experiences or expertise. Any product or service claims or representation should be verified by product provider or manufacturer.
FinancialWidgets.com does accept cash advertising, sponsorships, paid ad insertions, and other forms of compensation when the opportunity arises or when we need to eat. These compensations will never influence what we publish, nor will it influence the layout, content, or titles of the blog. They also will definitely NOT influence the name of our first-born, the alignment of the planets or how we sleep at night.
Privacy Policy:
Welcome to FinancialWidgets.com. We understand that privacy online is very important to users of our site.
This privacy statement governs our policies with respect to the types of personal information that is received and collected. It also defines how it is used. It includes those who visit our site without transacting business and those that may make use of various services offered by Financial Widgets.
What is “Personally Identifiable Information”?
Personally Identifiable Information refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person, to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
Log Files
Log files are use by many websites including FinancialWidgets.com to provide an enjoyable and interactive experience to their users. These files include login information, including, but not limited to, IP addresses, ISPs, and browser types, to analyze trends, administer the Site, track a user’s movement and use, and gather broad demographic information. This information is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Web Cookies and Beacons
Cookies are used to store information about a visitor’s preferences, user-specific information and to customize the website for an individual’s use. They don’t contain personally Identifiable Information. Typically they contain the visitor’s browser type and other preferences that the visitor sends via their browser.
Web beacons don’t contain any personally identifiable information either. They are simply a convenient way of gathering the simplest of statistics and managing cookies.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. Some of these third-party advertisers use cookies and beacons to serve up advertisements and links to FinancialWidgets.com directly to your browser. These companies may use information (not including personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. They receive your IP address when this happens.
Google Adsense, Yahoo, Amazon.com are a few examples of FinancialWidgets.com advertising partners that may do this.
These are known as third-party cookies. They include,
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Turning off your browser’s cookies will prevent web cookies and web beacons from tracking your specific activity. More specific information about this can be found at your browser’s specific websites. Since we have no control or access over this you should consult the third-party ad server’s specific privacy policies for tips on how to control or opt- out of their specific practices.
Personal Information
Financial Widgets collects only the personal information that you provide us in order to make use of services we offer such an email subscription. This information, such as email address and user name is store in an encrypted location and can only be accessed by authorized Financial Widgets personnel. We will never sell, loan, transfer, etc. or in any way distribute this information except as required by law.
We do use third-party financial services providers such as PayPal, a respected and trusted source, who will collect and store information separately from Financial Widgets. The information required to provide their functions will be used and stored based on their specific privacy policies which we again have no access or control over. Please see their specific privacy disclosures for more information.
Trade/Trading Disclaimer
Everything on this website is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not meant to replace qualified, professional advice, nor does it replace prudent personal due diligence.
The publisher/contributors of this site are neither a professionals nor qualified/certified to offer advice. If you elect to make use of any information contained on this site, please be advised that you do so at your own risk and the principles and affiliates claim no responsibility for the reliability or timeliness of any of this information, or ommisions, in any way.
Should you desire to utilize any of the aforementioned information, please enlist the aid of a trusted, qualified professional. From time to time posts may list trades in progress. These posts are not to be construed as any offer to buy or sell any particular stock or security but rather a method of learning what goes into the mindset of the post\’s author as a trade progresses.
