FinMath:Privacy policy
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[edit] Privacy Policy
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. We wish to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy policy discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
[edit] Information that Financial Mathematics Gathers and Tracks
Financial Mathematics gathers two types of information about users:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our datafeed services, electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.
- Information Financial Mathematics gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information may allow us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and to help any advertisers and sponsors that we work with better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Financial Mathematics divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
From time to time we may offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Financial Mathematics gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users may also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
Users of the site’s Message Boards and Forums must be registered for these services in order to post messages, although they needn’t register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
From time to time we may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Financial Mathematics may use a system to “tag” users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users. From time to time Financial Mathematics may conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
Financial Mathematics tracks user traffic patterns and website usage to ensure services are being used appropriately by users. This information may include cookies, overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser). Financial Mathematics sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
[edit] Cookies
We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Financial Mathematics uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
[edit] Use of Information
Financial Mathematics uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to receive datafeeds, participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We may send out newsletters to subscribers and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Financial Mathematics never shares email addresses with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don’t track which terms a particular user enters.
[edit] Sharing of Information
Financial Mathematics uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and better understand our audience demographics. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except when required to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
[edit] Opt-Out
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
[edit] Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Financial Mathematics. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
[edit] Links to Third Party Web Sites
Financial Mathematics may provide hyperlinks to third party web sites as a convenience to users of the Web Site. Financial Mathematics does not control third party web sites and is not responsible for the contents of any linked-to third party web sites or any hyperlink in a linked-to site. Financial Mathematics does not endorse, recommend or approve any third party web site hyperlinked from the Web Site. Financial Mathematics will have no liability to any entity for the content or use of the content available through such hyperlink.
[edit] Changes to These Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Financial Mathematics reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time by posting new Terms of Use at this location. You can send e-mail to Financial Mathematics with any questions relating to these Terms of Use at contact@financialmathematics.com.
