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This is the ChangeWave.com/ChangeWave Alliance web site.
Our postal address is: We can be reached via e-mail at info@changewave.com. This Privacy Policy is applicable to Registered Users (WaveWatchers), Subscribers (WaveRiders) of ChangeWave.com and Members of the ChangeWave Alliance (Field Experts). Your privacy, and the privacy of all ChangeWave Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members, is important to us, and we are committed to protecting the personal information you choose to share with us. Accordingly, we have adopted the following privacy policy, based on the principles of notice, choice, access and security in the collection and use of all information regarding our members and their activities at ChangeWave's web sites. Our data collection and privacy practices are described below. This policy tells you, among other things, what information we may gather from you, how we may use or disclose that information, and our efforts to protect it. Please read this policy carefully, and feel free to contact us at info@changewave.com if you have any questions regarding its contents. What information do we gather? ChangeWave may obtain three types of information from its Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members:
Registration, Subscription, or Application Data. The only individually identifiable information that ChangeWave seeks about you is that which you are asked to provide when you register, subscribe, or apply for Alliance membership. This information includes your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and billing information. Alliance applicants may be asked to provide additional personal information, such as employer and occupation, educational background, areas of expertise, age range, portfolio information, and other demographic information. Site Usage Data. We collect non-identifiable information to measure how our Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members use ChangeWave's web sites. This information may include statistics about the numbers and timing of unique visits to ChangeWave, repeat visits, and which pages are viewed. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Voluntary Postings. ChangeWave offers several avenues for Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members to volunteer statements, opinions, or other information which is then made available to others on ChangeWave's web sites. We do not require Registered Users, Subscribers, or Alliance Members to include personally-identifiable information in these postings. In fact, we generally discourage it. The content of voluntary postings are the sole responsibility of the Registered Users, Subscribers, or Members who post them, subject to the applicable Usage Agreement. What do we do with personal information about you? Your registration, subscription, and Alliance application data will be closely protected. Many of the features on ChangeWave's web sites are designed to be "personalized" to meet the needs and interests of our Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members. To support this personalization, we need to be able to identify your account each time you log in to a ChangeWave web site. We may combine your application data and information about your usage of our Site with those of all or a particular group of our members, to prepare aggregated, non-identifiable profiles of our members and their activities on our Site. For example, we may track the number of our members who view certain pages or use certain features. Such information, and other aggregated information we derive from individual members' information, allows us to continue to grow and provide you with timely and useful information through our Site. With regard to our advertisers, we may provide them with non-identifiable, aggregated information about ChangeWave's web site traffic. This information may also be disclosed in describing our web sites and services to prospective business partners and other third parties. However, this aggregated information about website traffic will not include personally-identifiable information such as registration, subscription, or Alliance application data or individual page-views. ChangeWave also reserves the right to disclose information as required by law, or to the extent that we believe in good faith that such disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect others' rights or property. Registered Users and Subscribers. ChangeWave uses registration and subscription information to maintain records about your use of ChangeWave's services, for billing purposes, and for us to occasionally send you information on products and services that ChangeWave or ACP Phillips Investment Resources, LLC, our parent company, offers. If you do not wish to receive this information you may "opt out" by sending an email stating such to info@changewave.com. We may also occasionally provide the names and postal mailing addresses (but not e-mail addresses or telephone numbers) of ChangeWave Registered Users and Subscribers to third parties who offer products, services, or information which we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to provide this information, you may "opt out" by sending an email stating such to info@changewave.com. ChangeWave Registered Users and Subscribers who have not been receiving information from ChangeWave, ACP Phillips Investment Resources, LLC, or third parties but now wish to receive such information may "opt in" by sending an email stating such to info@changewave.com. Alliance Members. Alliance application information is used internally to evaluate your membership application and to identify your areas of professional and technical expertise to ensure that Alliance members represent diverse industries and perspectives. We use Alliance application data to differentiate you from other Alliance members, to select Industry Intelligence Panels for you to join, to participate in Alliance Roundtable discussions within your areas of expertise, to maintain Your Portfolio, to forward you personalized e-mail alerts, and to provide you with other forms of targeted financial analyses and data. Once you are accepted as an Alliance Member, application information you have provided and/or additional information which you may be asked to provide may be used to populate a public profile that could be viewed by fellow Alliance members and others. Public profiles may be posted on the Alliance web site or utilized for other purposes. Your public profile will not have any personally-identifiable information, such as your name or address. From time to time, the ChangeWave Alliance may use highly reputable third-party partners/software for email list management, email distribution and survey research. In such cases, specific types of information may be transferred to these third parties so as to enable them to perform specific functions on our behalf. ChangeWave Alliance Members will occasionally receive information on products and services that ChangeWave offers. If you do not wish to receive this information you may "opt out" by sending an email stating such to info@changewave.com. Alliance Members who have not been receiving information from ChangeWave, ACP Phillips Investment Resources, LLC, or third parties but now wish to receive such information may "opt in" by sending an email stating such to info@changewave.com. Alliance Members' personal information will not be provided to third parties. How do ChangeWave's service providers use personally identifiable information? We have partnered with Strategy.com to provide portfolio tracking and registration services. When a Registered User, Subscriber or Alliance Member signs up for their services, we will share names or other contact information necessary for Strategy.com to provide their services. Strategy.com has agreed not to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing their services. How does ChangeWave.com use "cookies"? Using ChangeWave's web sites requires that you accept the use of "cookies," which are small files that our web sites send to your Internet browser for storage on your computer's hard drive. ChangeWave uses cookies to facilitate the login process for you across multiple applications on our sites, to measure traffic on our web sites, and to "personalize" your experience as a Registered User, Subscriber, or Alliance Member. When you register, subscribe, or apply for Alliance membership, ChangeWave assigns a unique identifier to you, and we place a cookie on your computer which will remind our system of that identifier in other areas of our web sites, or the next time you visit one of ChangeWave's web sites. This cookie allows you to access all of your personalized areas of our web sites without having to log on multiple times. If you reject the cookie, you may still use our site, but you will be limited in some areas of our site. The cookies alone cannot be used to identify you. Instead, your computer is assigned an identifier and that identifier is tracked using the cookie. This identifier is meaningful only within our secure database system and your personalized version of ChangeWave. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers), and we have no access to, control over, or responsibility or liability for these cookies. We also use cookies to measure activity on our web sites. Our plans for improvements and updates are based on which areas of our web sites are popular and which are not. Everything we learn from these measurements will be used to enrich your experience on our web sites. ChangeWave does not use cookies for promotional or marketing purposes, nor is that information shared with third parties. Can you access information about yourself? Yes. At any time after you have registered, subscribed, or applied for Alliance membership, you may personally access, review and/or modify the information in your membership profile. You may request access to your records by sending a request to info@changewave.com. Upon your making any changes, any new item of information will replace the corresponding information previously provided. What happens to my information if I am no longer a Registered User, Subscriber, or Alliance Member? Former Alliance Members. If for any reason you are no longer an Alliance member, your "application information" will be archived in our system. The content of your voluntary postings, if any, will be retained. Alliance Applicants. If you apply for membership but do not become a member, your "application information" will be archived our system. Former Registered Users and Subscribers. Registration and subscription information is retained unless you ask us to delete it. You may request that your registration or subscription data be deleted from our system by sending a request to info@changewave.com. How is your information protected? We use industry-standard encryption methods to transmit Alliance application data and credit card information submitted by Registered Users and Subscribers between your computer and ours across the Internet. We restrict access to any transactional portions of our web sites to computers running web browsers that support the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. To use this protection technology, registered users, subscribers, and Alliance members need to have an SSL-capable browser, such as Netscape Navigator 4.5 or higher, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 or higher. These browsers will automatically activate the encryption technology when you log on to one of our web sites. Please remember that you play a valuable part in data security as well. Your passwords to access our web sites, which you select when you register, subscribe, or join the Alliance, should never be shared with anyone and should be changed frequently. After you have finished using one or more of our web sites, you should log off and exit your browser so that no unauthorized persons can use our web sites under your name and account information. Remember that any information you voluntarily disclose on-line in any news or message postings, discussion groups or chat rooms may be collected and used by others without your permission. Furthermore, if you provide any information to parties who operate web sites that are linked to or from one or more of our web sites, different policies may apply to their collection, use or disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to review these external sites' policies carefully before revealing any sensitive or personal information. Regardless of the precautions taken by you or by us, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit such information at your own risk. Restrictions on Access by Children Federal law restricts our ability to collect information from children online. For this and other reasons, ChangeWave's web sites are open only to persons 18 years of age and over. All Registrants, Subscribers, and Alliance Applicants are required to certify that they are 18 years of age or over. If we learn that a Registered User, Subscriber, or Alliance Applicant is under age 18, his or her access to ChangeWave will be immediately terminated with no further obligation to ChangeWave, and all identifiable information will be deleted. Misrepresenting age is a violation of our Usage Agreements and will not be tolerated. Submitting Information Please remember that voluntary postings submitted through our ChangeWave Alliance Submission Forms, Industry Intelligence Panels, and Alliance Roundtables, along with all voluntary postings submitted through our Registered User or Subscriber web sites, are subject to widespread distribution. As set forth in ChangeWave's Usage Agreements, Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members are solely responsible for the content of their postings and must follow acceptable standards of behavior when posting messages online. Voluntary postings by Registered Users, Subscribers, and Alliance Members become the property of ChangeWave, and we cannot restrict disclosures of or otherwise guarantee the privacy of any information contained in such postings. USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND APPLICABLE USAGE AGREEMENT. ChangeWave reserves the right to change this policy at any time by posting a revised privacy policy on this web page. You can send e-mail to us with any further questions at info@changewave.com. |
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