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DWS respects your privacy. This statement of our Privacy Policy explains what information we gather from you and how we use that information. We consider the information you have shared with us strictly confidential and will use that information only as specified in this Privacy Policy or to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law. Although we respect the privacy of all those who visit DWS and use our online services, we do collect information from DWS’s members and visitors. This Privacy Policy governs your interaction with DWS, and your registration for and use of our online services. Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy and DWS’s Terms of Service and/or other published guidelines, we do not release personally identifiable information about our members and visitors without their permission. Please note that we review these privacy practices from time to time, and that these practices are therefore subject to change. We ask that you periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of DWS’s Privacy Policy. To contact us about privacy issues, to report a violation of this Web site's Privacy Policy, or to raise any other issue regarding the Web site, please e-mail us at info@wallst.net. THE INFORMATION WE GATHER We gather two types of information about users: (1) Non-personally identifiable information: When visitors come to the Web site, we collect and aggregate information indicating, among other things, which pages were visited, the order in which they were visited, and which hyperlinks were "clicked." Collecting such information involves the logging of IP addresses, operating system and browser software used by each visitor to the Web site. Although such information is not personally identifiable, we can determine from the IP address a visitor's Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity. The non-personally identifiable information we collect helps us diagnose problems with our server, administer the Web site, identify the most popular areas of the Web site, and determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. (2) Personally identifiable information: In certain areas of the Web site, such as online surveys and contests, the Web site may require that you provide personally identifiable information (including, for example, zip code, age, income, and e-mail address, and when applicable, credit card information). DWS also collects other profile data including, but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other. User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in DWS’s social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join DWS, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on DWS with each other through DWS service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, DWS allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked. We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings" We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children (defined herein as minors younger than 13 years of age) without obtaining parental consent. Before registering for an account to use the Services of the Web site, we ask that all minors have their parents read our Privacy Policy. Before and during the registration process, we encourage all minors to include a parent or guardian in the process. HOW WE USE (AND DO NOT USE) THE INFORMATION WE GATHER Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways we use the information that we gather. Keep in mind that, while we encourage all third parties involved—including affiliates and advertisers—to adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of this Web site's visitors and members and to otherwise handle personal information in a responsible manner, we cannot and do not assume any responsibility for any actions or omissions of third parties, including the manner in which they use information received either from us or independently. Nevertheless, in the event you encounter any third party associated with, or who claims association with us who you feel is improperly collecting or using information about you, please contact info@wallst.net we will be happy to forward your message to the third party. (1) How we use (and do not use) non-personally identifiable information: We use non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful online services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of the Web site's members and visitors, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Web site. We provide statistical information based on this data to advertisers, affiliates, and other current and potential business partners. We also use the aggregate data to inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their web sites. The Web site may contain links to other Internet web sites, including co-branded or other affiliated sites that may or may not be owned or operated by us. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites, including such sites' use of any information (such as IP number, browser type, or operating system) collected when visitors to the web site click through links to those sites. Even though such information might not identify you personally, we strongly encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of those sites. (2) How we use (and do not use) personally identifiable information: We provide notice to potential registrants of this Web site whose personally identifiable information will be collected during the registration process. Such notice is provided simultaneously with your registration with this website; moreover, this Privacy Policy itself serves as notice that such information is collected under those circumstances. Registrants automatically "opt in" to have access to services, receiving promotional materials from us and/or our affiliates, advertisers, or other business partners. You may choose to "opt out" of receiving promotional materials from us and/or our affiliates, advertisers, or other business partners by e-mailing us. Once you "opt in" to receive such promotional materials, we reserve the right to release any personally identifiable registration information regarding you to third parties who provide goods or services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you decide that you would like to discontinue receiving promotional information from such third parties, please contact those third parties directly. We limit our own e-mail contact and solicitations to those members who have "opted in" through the registration process to receive such communications. The solicitations are limited in that they, among other things, will clearly indicate the originator of the e-mail and provide the customer with a method of "opting out" of receiving future communications of a similar nature. In addition, we sometimes use demographic data to decide which advertisements and sponsor messages to show to which members. As an example, if Sponsor XYZ wishes to display their advertising only to female members of this Web site, we use member registration data to ensure that Sponsor XYZ's ads are displayed only to female members. We reserve the right to release any and all information contained within our access logs concerning any visitor or member when that visitor or member is in violation of our Terms of Service or other published guidelines, or partakes (or is reasonably suspected of partaking) in any illegal activity, even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order, and to release such information in response to discovery requests, or in response to any circumstance which we, in our sole discretion, deem an emergency. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution. USE OF COOKIES DWS uses cookies—that is, small text files placed on your computer's hard drive—to help us determine the type of content and sites to which you link, the length of time you spend at any particular area of the Web site, and your usage of our services offered via the Web site. Essentially, cookies are your identification cards for our computers or servers. Cookies are only read by the server that placed them, and are unable to execute any code or virus. Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at the Web site by tell us which advertising you have seen on the Web site and allows us to customize newsletters, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set—each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences—however, you must enable cookies from DWS in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that DWS allows third party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the DWS Privacy Policy. INVITATIONS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS TO NON-MEMBERS DWS members can invite friends to join the Web site’s social community network by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. DWS stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. DWS does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of invitations from DWS may wish to contact DWS to request the removal of their information from our database. DWS members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal DWS address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses. You may prevent DWS email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to info@wallst.net. Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block. LINKS DWS contains links to sites. DWS is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on DWS. CHAT ROOMS, JOURNALS AND WEBLOGS, MESSAGE BOARDS, CLASSIFIEDS AND PUBLIC FORUMS Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. We do not control the acts of this Web site's members or visitors. All members and visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personally identifiable information in a bulletin board, chat room, guestbook, or other forum, the information may be collected and used by others to send that person unsolicited e-mail from other parties outside this Web site or DWS. In the event that you encounter any user on this Web site who is improperly collecting or using information about you or other users, please contact info@wallst.net. CORRECTING/UPDATING OR REMOVING INFORMATION DWS users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info. If you would like to have your personally identifiable information changed or removed from our database, please contact us at info@wallst.net, and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. Keep in mind, however, that there will be residual information that will remain within our databases, access logs, and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. The residual information will not be used for commercial purposes; however we reserve the right, from time to time, to recontact former customers or users of this Web site. EMAIL CHOICE/OPT-OUT You may choose not to register for real-time quotes. Access to delayed quotes does not require registration. You may opt-out of receiving communications from us and/or our partners. Your options include: opting to not receive promotional materials from our advertisers and/or, opting to not receive any newsletters, notices about new services or any other content from DWS. Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me notification emails' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. Users who do not wish to receive DWS newsletters may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me DWS newsletters' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. All notification emails and DWS newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future. THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by DWS or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by DWS and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. SECURITY DWS member accounts are secured by member-created passwords DWS takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time For any additional information about the security measures we use on DWS, please contact us at info@wallst.net. SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION DWS COLLECTS Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, DWS will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by DWS, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the DWS Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. DWS reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of DWS or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below. CHANGES IN OUR PRIVACY POLICY From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days. CONTACTING THE WEB SITE If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: Digital WallStreet, Inc. info@wallst.net. For general information about Internet privacy issues, you may wish to visit the Web site hosted by the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/privacy. |