Potatoheadmick.com Privacy Policy
(Last revised: October 16, 2007) Potatoheadmick.com LLC shares your concern about the protection of your personal information online. This is our policy regarding the privacy of information we collect on our web site.
Information Gathered and Tracked by Potatoheadmick.com LLC
Potatoheadmick.com LLC gathers two types of data about users: (a) personal information, which individual users provide (i) when registering as a subscriber of Potatoheadmick.com, and (ii) tracking information, which is automatically collected about all visitors to our sites.
Personal Information
Potatoheadmick.com collects personal information when joining as a member. We will always provide a secure area of our site for you to enter your information, but if you prefer, you may talk offline to a customer service representative and provide the required information over the telephone or via email.
Subscription
If you want full access to the Potatoheadmick.com service, we require you to register to become a paid subscriber. In order to register, you'll have to supply us with your email and postal addresses, choose a unique User Name and password, and provide us with some additional information about yourself and your method of payment.
Tracking Information
Tracking data consists of both individual and aggregated tracking information and is automatically gathered using "cookies".
What is a "cookie"?
A cookie is a small data file containing information, such as a user's login name, that is written to the user's hard drive by a web server and used to track the pages visited. Cookies used by Potatohead.com LLC are encoded and contain a unique digital signature to prevent tampering. They do not contain user passwords. The individual information gathered in this manner is used for internal purposes only, such as accessing a member's account information. We also use the information on an aggregate basis, to track the readership of stories and usage of our products, to analyze traffic patterns on our sites, and to provide anonymous reporting of usage for internal and external clients. You can control your browser's settings regarding cookies by selecting "Internet Options" or "Preferences" in the menu bar of your browser. This will allow you to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or disable cookies altogether. However, because cookies allow you to easily navigate our web sites without having to constantly log in using your User Name and password, we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Use of the Information
Potatoheadmick.com LLC uses personal information obtained from its users as stated in this Privacy Policy, and to enhance users' experiences on our sites.
Disclosures Permitted by Law
Potatoheadmick.com does not sell or share personal information about you described above with any 3rd parties.
Other Uses
Free Newsletters
If you're a registered member of Potatoheadmick.com, we use your email address to send you email newsletters containing selected stories, market information, Mick’s Pick’s and links to our site.
Special Offers and Advertisements
We may from time to time send you special offers and advertisements for products or services, but never of those offered by third parties.
Confirmation of Subscription status
In conjunction with marketing efforts of a limited number of investment-related third parties, we may enable them to make special offers to their customers who are also Potatoheadmick.com subscribers. In order to enable these limited marketing efforts, we will confirm a subscribers' active status. We will not disclose anything other than the status of the subscriber as either "active" or "not active".
Correcting and Updating the Information
Potatoheadmick.com offers to its subscribers the ability to correct or update online the information we collected during registration by email at support@potatoheadmick.com.
Security
Potatoheadmick.com LLC limits access to personal information about you to those employees whom we determine need access to that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your personal information. However, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers, nor can we guarantee that information that users supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Former Customers
Potatoheadmick.com LLC discloses personal information about former customers only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Questions or comments regarding this policy should be directed to support@potatoheadmick.com. Potatoheadmick.com reserves the right to modify this policy.