Privacy Policy
Last Updated: August 8th, 2013
Welcome to
Financial Good, Bad, and Ugly (“FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com”), an
online news magazine featuring articles on what’s good, bad, and ugly
in finance (money), business, entrepreneurship, and more. Our
Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect
information that applies to our website, and your choices about the
collection and use of your information.
Use of our website is an acknowledgement of acceptance of our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Disclosure Policy.
General Collection and Use of Information:
We may ask for
certain information such as your first name, last name, email address,
phone number, and other identifying information when you participate in
one of our FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com programing involving the
following activities: 1) filling out an online survey; 2)
nominating a person or business for a special recognition; 3)
participating in an online competition, drawing, and/or give-away; 4)
and when requesting to receive our online FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com
Newsletter. This information may be used to email you updates
from FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com and to email you information from us
on behalf of our subsidiaries, sponsors, partners, affiliates,
third-parties, and others. Please note that at no point and time
will we give our subsidiaries, sponsors, partners, affiliates,
third-parties, and others your personal information to be used on an
at-will basis. Instead, the information will be sent to us from
our subsidiaries, sponsors, partners, affiliates, third-parties, and
others and we will send the information to you on behalf of the
aforementioned entities.
At any point, if you do not want to receive such email messages, you
may opt out of receiving them via opt out options attached to certain
communications as well as by emailing us at
Info@financialgoodbadandugly.com with the message “Stop Sending
Emails.”
Additionally, your information may also include the retention of any
messages you send through FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com as well as
information you provide when posting on social media sites such as
Facebook, when you “like” a messages or article, and you post
updates. This information may be used to manage, maintain,
operate, and provide you with additional features in the future that
may serve to make our site more functional for online
users.
Information Collected from Third Party Sites:
Also, we may
receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you
access our websites or Service through a third-party connection or
log-in, for example, through Facebook or other social media site, by
clicking on the “like” button on an article or
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com update or after posting your thoughts or
reflections concerning an article on FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com, the
third party may pass certain information about your use of its service
to us. This information could include, but is not limited to, the
user name associated with your Facebook or other social media account,
any information that you have permitted the third party to share with
us, and any information you may have made public through your
connection with that service, including your public profile picture(s),
news feed, posts on your wall (including post from your “friends” that
may have posted on your wall).
Because of this, we recommend you should always err on the side of
caution by reviewing your social media settings, and if necessary,
adjusting your privacy settings on third-party websites and services
before linking or connecting them to the
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com.
Collection of Analytical & Statistical Data:
We may directly or
indirectly collect or use third-party analytical and statistical data
tools to measure online traffic, trends, and usage of
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com.
Cookies information:
Cookies are small
files that convey information about how you use and interact with the
web. Third parties, online tools, and resources through
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com may use cookies to understand how you use
the internet, the websites you visit, and other information concerning
your browsing trends and updates. Because of this, we recommend
that you reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate
when a cookie is being sent. Alternatively, it may also be a good
practice to periodically delete Cookies from your web
browser.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your
information with third-parties for the purpose of providing our website
to you and its online services and tools that are reasonably necessary
to deliver our services and online content and web-functionality to
you. Moreover, we may share your information in the following
scenarios:
1. Shift in Corporate Control:
In the event that FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com is sold, assigned, or
merged with another company. In this event, due to the change in
control, your information would likely be shared with this new third
party.
2. Mandated by Law:
We will also disclose your information with third parties when required
to do so by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such
action is necessary to comply with the law and/or the reasonable
request of law enforcement, to enforce our Terms of Service.
3. Protect Our site:
We will also disclose your information to third parties to protect our site, FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com, and our Users.
Advertising On Our Website:
We
may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks or others to serve
advertisements on the FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com website. These
third-party ad servers or ad networks or other ad providers may use
technology to send advertisements, ad links, and other forms of ads
directly to your browser or device, and may automatically receive your
IP address when they do so. They may also use other technologies
to compile information about your browser such as usage patterns to
personalize the advertising content. If you wish to opt out of
being subjected to the technology in use by the aforementioned
advertisers, you may do so by adjusting your browser to alert you of
cookies and/or to refuse acceptance of cookies when cookies are
placed. Alternatively, it may also be a good practice to
periodically delete Cookies from your web
browser.
No Control of Third Party Advertiser Activities:
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we
cannot control the activities of third-party advertisers. Because
of this, we recommend that if you wish to opt out of being subjected to
the technology in use by the aforementioned advertisers, you adjust
your web browser to alert you of cookies and/or to refuse acceptance of
cookies when cookies are placed. It may also be a good practice
to periodically delete Cookies from your web browser.
Alternatively, you may review the privacy policies of such advertisers
and contact them directly.
Keeping Your Information Safe:
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com
cares about the security of your information. As such, we use
internal safeguards to protect your privacy and security.
However, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit on our site or guarantee that information on
FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com may not be retrieved, accessed, altered,
damaged, or destroyed. Your privacy settings may also be affected
by your web browser setting. We are also not responsible for the
security measures of any third party.
Known Compromise of Information:
In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a
result of a breach of security, FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com will take
reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate,
notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised
and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and
regulations.
Contact Us:
In
the event that you would like to contact us by mail concerning any
matter concerning our Privacy Statement, Terms of Service, or other
matters, you may send us an email message to
Info@FinancialGoodBadandUgly.com. Alternatively, you may mail us
at the following address listed below:
Financial Good, Bad, and Ugly
Attn: Customer Support
P.O. Box 1965
Orlando, Florida 32802
Opting Out of Receiving Offers by Email:
If you would like
to opt out of receiving email messages regarding offers emailed to you
on behalf of our third party advertisers and others, you may opt out of
this by emailing: Info@FinancialGoodBadandUgly with the message “Stop
Sending Emails” Please be patient as it may take between two to four
weeks for us to fully process your request.
If you have any additional questions concerning our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.
This policy was last updated on August 4th 2013.
Read our
Terms of Service.
Read our
Disclosure Policy.