Privacy Policy
FYIndOut takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
FYIndOut products, services and websites, (“Site”) are meant for use by professionals only. Any person under the age of 18 is not allowed on the site and should not submit any personal information.
Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of any FYIndOut products, services, or site after notice of changes have been sent or made available to you or published on our site, will constitute your consent to those changed practices.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how FYIndOut treats personal and organization information that FYIndOut collects and receives through its site. Personal information is information about you that allows you to be identified like your name, address, email address, or telephone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. Organization information is information about your organization such as company name, address, specific contact information.
- This policy does not apply to the practices of FYIndOut business partners or to other companies that FYIndOut does not own or control, or to people that FYIndOut does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
- FYIndOut may collect personal information when you register with FYIndOut, when you use FYIndOut products or services, when you visit FYIndOut pages or the pages of certain FYIndOut business partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. FYIndOut may combine information about you that it has with information it obtains from business partners or other companies.
- FYIndOut may collect organization information when an organization is registered with FYIndOut, when an organization uses FYIndOut products or services, and when an organization visits FYIndOut pages or the pages of certain FYIndOut partners. FYIndOut may combine information about your organization that it has with information it obtains from business partners or other companies.
- When you register, FYIndOut asks for information such as your name, email address, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and previous experience. When you register with FYIndOut and log in to our site to access our products and services, you are not anonymous to us.
- FYIndOut automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, FYIndOut cookie information, and the page you request.
- FYIndOut uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and to create reports of anonymous data that may be used internally or provided to third parties.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- FYIndOut does not rent, sell, or share personal or organization information with other people or non-affiliated companies except as provided in this Privacy Policy, to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with FYIndOut subject to confidentiality provisions. These companies may use your information to help FYIndOut communicate with you about offers from FYIndOut and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We may present aggregated demographic and activity information for press releases or any other types of posts in the media. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
- We may share aggregated demographic information with our customers, partners and advertisers to measure the success of services and campaigns and demonstrate the value of using FYIndOut. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of FYIndOut' terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if FYIndOut is acquired by or merged into another company. In this event, you will notified if your information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- FYIndOut may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, business professionals in the Financial Industry.
- FYIndOut does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad, you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Cookies
- FYIndOut may set and access FYIndOut cookies on your computer.
- FYIndOut lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to FYIndOut' cookies.
Links
- FYIndOut products, services, and site contain links to other sites. Please be aware that FYIndOut is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites.
- We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by FYIndOut through this site.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
- You can edit your FYIndOut Account Information at any time.
- We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the FYIndOut service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your FYIndOut account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
- You can delete your FYIndOut account on your Profile page or by contacting us via email.
Surveys & Contests
- From time-to-time, our web site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary; the user has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
- Information requested may include contact information (such as name, address, and employment type), and demographic information (such as zip code, age, etc.). Contact information will only be used to notify the winners to award prizes and to send survey results to participants.
- Survey results may be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this site, sharing with survey sponsors, or users of the site.
Account Information
- When you register with FYIndOut or submit information to FYIndOut, a temporary copy of that information is routinely made to prevent accidental loss of your information through a computer malfunction or human error.
- FYIndOut keeps your account information active in our user registration databases in order to provide immediate access to your personalization preferences each time you visit FYIndOut.
- If you ask FYIndOut to delete your FYIndOut account, in most cases your account will be deactivated and then deleted from our user registration database in approximately 360 days. This delay is necessary to discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity.
- Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases.
Servers
- The FYIndOut computers (called "servers") that send your web pages and advertising banners process and store an enormous amount of information every day. These computer records are called “log files”
- Log files are used for analysis, research, auditing, and other purposes, as described above. This information is used and stored.
Confidentiality and Security
- In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on FYIndOut is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credit card information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and our web site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- FYIndOut may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat your information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your FYIndOut account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
- If you have questions or suggestions, please submit it via our Contact Us page or you can contact us at:
Last Updated: December 02, 2008