www-money, registered at 8 Eggleston Court, Middlesbrough TS2 1RU is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. The following policy will help you understand how your personal information will be treated as you use our services. This policy is subject to change from time to time so please check back periodically.
This policy will let you know:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you?
- What cookies are and their use.
- How does www-money use your personal information?
- Who collects your information?
- Who shares your information with www-money?
- What are the security precautions to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
- More about your privacy.
1. What personally identifiable information does www-money collect?
www-money collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of web sites. Personal information like your name, gender, birth date, occupation, industry, post code, interests etc. is collected when you register.
The more information you voluntarily (and the more accurate it is), provide us with the better we are able to customize your experience.
Your personal information maybe asked during other instances such as you entering a promotion sponsored by www-money and/or our partners, when you report problems with any of our sites or submit listings for websites. If you contact www-money we may keep a record of that correspondence. www-money also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever www-money collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
2. What are cookies and what is their use?
www-money uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you as part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services,. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on www-money where you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies.
www-money uses cookies to:
1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services.
2) Estimate our audience size. It is used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
3) Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions / information on financial products like sponsored advertisement and forms that details loans, mortgages, debt etc. When a www-money hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the customer’s progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status of his / her enquiry.
4) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of www-money’s network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. Users’ habits, similarity or differences are analyzed to ensure that your experience at www-money is a better one. Information may also be used for personalizing content, banners and promotions that you and the other users will see on our sites.
Third Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
3. How does www-money use your personal information?
www-money’s primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, with a customized experience on our network of sites. Included are the personalization services, interactive communications, and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. To provide these services free of charge, advertisements and links to sites are displayed. www-money is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content and hence better service to you.
www-money does research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. This helps us better understand and serve our users. www-money may share this aggregated data (research compiled and analyzed) with advertisers or business partners.
4. Who collects your information?
You are sharing information with www-money alone when you are asked for information on www-money, unless specifically stated otherwise. To provide co-branded services like debt advice, debt management etc which are free to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information with the service provider. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than www-money, you will be notified immediately on collection of the data which would clearly mention the name of the service provider. If you do not want your data to be shared, you could request for the same in the comments section provided at the end of the data collection form. Such a request would result in stoppage of these services to you.
Promotions that run on www-money may be sponsored by companies other than www-money or may be co-sponsored by www-money and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified immediately on submission time of data collection or transfer. You can decide whether you want to participate in the promotion or want your data to be shared or not.
Please be aware that www-money’s Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The Privacy statements of the individual Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites are mentioned in their respective sites and www-money shall not be liable to the extent and intent of usage of the information received by these sites.
5. Who shares your information with www-money?
Business Partners & Sponsors: www-money may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors. The name of the partner/sponsor would be intimated to you in an electronic/sms format.
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, www-money may match user information with third party data specific to the contents on this web site who in turn could serve relevant marketing information specific to the url. Also, www-money discloses aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners, advertisers, other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Other: www-money may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating www-money’s Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) www-money’s rights or property, other www-money users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. www-money may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
6. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, www-money cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. We put in our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
7. More about your privacy
Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online on application forms or any areas of site, through email etc information can be collected and used by others. You may receive unsolicited messages if your personal information is accessible to the public. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Be careful and responsible whenever you are online.
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