GroupVestor, Inc. ("GroupVestor" or "we" or "us") is committed to protecting the privacy of the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information" further described below) that we collect from you. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any Personal Information and anonymous information ("Anonymous Information" further described below) you submit to us. GroupVestor may collect Personal Information on certain areas of the site when you register, request information or a response, sign up for events, apply for jobs, and participate in user posting areas, such as bulletin boards, discussion forums, and surveys. The information collected may include, without limitation, your access ID/password, company, and contact information such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone/ fax numbers. Through use of our website, software, services, etc. (hereafter collectively referred to as the "Site") or by submitting any information to us, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy and GroupVestor' Terms of Service located at http://www.GroupVestor.com/terms.html.
GroupVestor uses your Personal Information to for the following purposes: to fulfill your requests for information, to respond to comments you post on the Site, to improve our community and Site and to better tailor the features, performance and support of the Site and to offer you additional information, opportunities and functionality. GroupVestor may also use Personal Information to measure and assess interest in specific items posted on our Site and provided by our service. The e-mail addresses provided at registration allow GroupVestor to send e-mails to you if the need arises. If you do not wish to receive emails or other communications from us, please let us know. GroupVestor may use Personal Information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described below. GroupVestor may also provide your Personal Information to any of its affiliates worldwide for such purposes, however, we will NOT collect information or obtain consent through deceptive means.
We may create Anonymous Information records (which do not permit the identification of individual persons) from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you. We may use this Anonymous Information to analyze usage patterns so that we may enhance our Site and services. We reserve the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to third parties in our discretion.
If we delete your account at your request, we will delete all Personal Information from the account, but we retain the right to maintain non-personally identifiable information about the account (e.g. date created, date terminated, feeds, etc.). Also, if we terminate your account as allowed under the Terms of Service, we may choose to maintain all data collected from your use of the Site, including Personal Information.
We will limit the amount and the type of Personal Information we collect however, we may use cookies to identify you and your interests and to track usage of the site. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer that help us know which browser you are using and where you have been on the Site and on websites to which you may link in order to use some of our features. Cookies also let us know whether you have registered with us and otherwise enable us to relate your current usage of the Site to prior usage of this or other sites of GroupVestor or its affiliates. By accepting our cookie, you will be conveniently permitted access to certain pages of the Site without having to log in each time you visit. A user who refuses cookies from the Site may not be able to access certain areas of the Site. GroupVestor also logs IP addresses, or the location of computers on the Internet, to help diagnose problems and to administer our Site.
GroupVestor will not intentionally disclose (and will take commercially reasonable steps to prevent the accidental disclosure of) your Personal Info to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of GroupVestor), whether for such third parties' marketing purposes or otherwise, subject to the following exceptions:
• GroupVestor may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction;
• GroupVestor may disclose your Personal Information to third parties who deliver information from us to you for the purpose of performing such delivery;
• GroupVestor may disclose your Personal Information if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent to such disclosure;
• GroupVestor may disclose your Personal Information in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to GroupVestor. If GroupVestor and/or any of its affiliates merges with or sells substantially all of its assets or a majority of its equity to a third party, information collected by GroupVestor or such affiliates on their websites may be disclosed to and owned by the merged entity or third party.
We may provide links to third-party websites as a service to our users. In addition, some of the content appearing to be on this Site is in fact supplied by third parties, for example, in instances of framing of third-party websites or incorporation through framesets of content supplied by third-party servers. We cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection and privacy practices of such third-party websites, which may differ from those of this Site.
GroupVestor has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized GroupVestor personnel are provided access to Personal Information, and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, GroupVestor cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your Personal Information.
Personal Information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to GroupVestor locations and hosting facilities located throughout the world. The Site may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries (such as the United States) that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personally-identifiable data. By using the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.