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PRIVACY – SOMPANEWS

Sompanews takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

  1. This policy covers how Sompanews treats personal information that Sompanews collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Sompanews products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
  2. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Sompanews does not own or control or to people that Sompanews does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

  1. Sompanews collects personal information when you register with Sompanews, when you use Sompanews products or services, when you visit Sompanews pages or the pages of certain Sompanews partners, and when you enter promotions or newsletters. Sompanews may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  2. When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, postal code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services, we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with Sompanews and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  3. Sompanews collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
  4. Sompanews automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Sompanews cookie information, and the page you request.
  5. Sompanews uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfil your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

  1. When a child under age 18 attempts to register with Sompanews, we ask that he or she has a parent or guardian creates a Sompanews Account to obtain parental permission.
  2. Sompanews will not contact children under age 18 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission.
  3. Sompanews does not ask a child under age 18 for more personal information, as a condition of participation than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  1. Sompanews does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    1. We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Sompanews under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Sompanews communicate with you about offers from Sompanews and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    2. We have a parent’s permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 18. Parents have the option of allowing Sompanews to collect and use their child’s information without consenting to Sompanews sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
    3. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
    4. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Sompanews’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    5. We transfer information about you if Sompanews is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Sompanews will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  2. Sompanews displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria – for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
    1. Sompanews does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
    2. Sompanews advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
  2. Sompanews works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you’ve requested contact us.

Cookies

  1. Sompanews may set and access Sompanews cookies on your computer.
  2. Sompanews lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Sompanews’s cookies.
  3. Sompanews uses web beacons to access Sompanews cookies inside our network of web sites and in connection with Sompanews products and services.
  4. Users may opt-out of the use of cookies by visiting www.networkadvertising.org.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

  1. You can edit your Sompanews Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
  2. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
  3. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Sompanews service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Sompanews Newsletter, that are considered part of your Sompanews account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
  4. You can delete your Sompanews account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please be aware that your information might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Children

  1. Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their child’s Sompanews account using tools offered by Sompanews Accounts.
  2. If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child’s information, parents enrolled in Sompanews Accounts can delete their child’s account by signing into that child’s account and then visiting our Account Deletion page. Please be aware that your information might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Confidentiality and Security

  1. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
  2. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
  3. To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please contact us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Sompanews may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Sompanews account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form.

 

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