Effective Date: February 4, 2013
MarketRiders 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 sites. This privacy policy applies to www.MarketRiders.com. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that MarketRiders does not own or control. This Privacy Policy includes examples of the types of personal information we collect and the kinds of companies with whom we share such information. These examples are illustrative and should not be considered a complete inventory of our information collection, use and sharing practices. We will comply with applicable state laws that may restrict the types of information we may disclose about you or require us to provide you with additional notices.
MarketRiders has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. The TRUSTe program does not cover information that may be collected through downloadable software. The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this Web site, http://www.marketriders.com.
TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at . If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here.
We collect certain information from you in order to provide you with the most interesting and useful Web site possible.
We use your IP address to identify you, to gather demographic information that helps us understand how you and our other customers use our Web site, and to administer our Web site.
Our registration form requires you to give us contact information (like your name and email address), demographic information (like your zip code and occupation) and profile information (like your investment experience). We use your contact information to contact you about the services on our site, in which you have expressed interest, to send you newsletters from MarketRiders. We also use it to sign you up for webinars. You may opt-out of receiving these types of communications at any time, please see our "Choice/Opt-out" Section below. We also collect your credit card number and expiration date. We use this information to bill you for the services you have signed up for.
If you choose to sign up for our affiliate program please note that all personal information you enter is done on a third party service provider's domain. The personal information you submit within the application is governed by the third party service provider's privacy policy. They then share the information back with MarketRiders for the sole purpose of completing the affiliate programs sign up process.
We sometimes conduct or sponsor surveys and contests on our Web site. If you elect to participate, we may ask you for contact, demographic and other information as part of these offerings. We would use this information to analyze and report on the results of surveys, to provide you with the results of the surveys and contests.. Participation in surveys and contests is completely voluntary.
If you choose to use our referral service to invite a friend to our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. MarketRiders stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at
to request that we remove this information from our database.
We post expert quotes on our site that may contain personal information such as their name and a photo. We do obtain their consent prior to posting their quotes along with their name and photo. If you wish to update or delete your quotes, you can contact us at
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MarketRiders does not share, sell, rent or trade personal information about you with third parties other than as described within this privacy policy.
We share demographic, profile and other general information about you and our other customers with our advertisers on an aggregate basis. This means that we tell our advertisers general information about the characteristics of our customer base such as how many visitors and registered users we have within a certain postal code, but we do not specifically identify a particular visitor or provide his or her contact information to our advertisers. We may disclose your contact information or other specific information about you to third parties in conjunction with contests or new service offerings that you elect to participate in, but we will specifically describe with whom we will be sharing the information at the time we gather the information.
We provide the information (such as your name, email address, mailing address and credit card information) on a confidential basis to nonaffiliated companies we engage as contractors or agents to perform services for us, such as maintaining software, sending direct mail, credit card processing, Paypal, or administering a sweepstakes or contest. Information will be shared with such contractors only to the extent reasonably necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, and pursuant to confidentiality obligations;
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
If we are acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, MarketRiders will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
MarketRiders may disclose all the information we collect as described above to other companies such as direct marketers to perform marketing services on our behalf, or to financial institutions, such as banks, insurance companies and securities broker-dealers, with whom we have joint marketing agreements.
Our Web site uses "cookies" which deposit certain record keeping information in your hard drive. We use cookies to save your email address and password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, keep track of your preferences, deliver content specific to your interests, make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly, and for other similar purposes. These cookies can't read other data from your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites or applications.
Our Web site contains display ads sold by us or by outside advertising agencies. These ads may contain cookies which will be deposited in your hard drive if you click on the ads. Information generated from cookies deposited on your hard drive by our advertisers is collected by our advertisers and we do not have access to this information. Our privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies unless you reconfigure your browser to refuse them or to notify you when you will have received one. If you do not accept cookies, you will not be able to use certain features of our site.
Third Parties, with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity, also use Flash cookies to collect and store information.
Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here.
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on the registration form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication, by logging into your my account section of the site under email and newsletter preferences, sending a letter to us at 530 Lytton Avenue, 2nd Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94301, or by emailing us at
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We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications within the My Account section of the site or you may contact us at 866-990-ETFS to opt-out.
You will be notified when your personally identifiable information is collected by any third party who is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
If you use the blog on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these blogs, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these blogs. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at
. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number, national ID, personal health information) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you click on a link to a third party site, you will leave the www.marketriders.com site you are visiting and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as www.marketriders.com. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third party website that is linked to a www.marketriders.com site, you should read that site's privacy statement before providing any personally identifiable information.
Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button [and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site]. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, delete inaccuracies, or update it by emailing our Customer Support at
or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed on our website.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
