( Last updated on 27th August 2008 )

Information that is collected:

Sensitive Personal Information Collected: When you register for RSS feeds, benefits or using other services such as leaving a comment or sending an email to the owner of the blog, personal identifiable information from you that may include your name and e-mail address will be collected.

Web Site Usage Information: IP addresses and web site usage information from you are collected when you visit the Services. This information helps, among other things, to evaluate how you use and navigate the blog.

How Information collected is used

Information is used in the following ways:

• For the purposes which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to process, validate and verify your registration.
• To send you notifications on blog updates.
• To personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences

Personal identifiable information will be revealed under special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce the terms and conditions or other rights (for example, when it is necessary to protect intellectual property rights). The discretion to disclose or use your personal information will be done in good faith if the law requires such action to be taken.

Review and Correction

Your personal identifiable information that you have provided, can be updated by sending it to the owner of theinvestorportal.com. For more information, please click on the contact link and send in your queries through the form provided. While processing your requests as quickly as possible, please allow for reasonable time to process your updates.

Cookies

Cookie technology is being employed, among other things, allows you to move quickly through the services, personalize and store your settings. Cookies are used to collect site usage information, estimate the total audience size and traffic, and help to improve the sites’ experiences by measuring which areas are of greatest interest to users.

You can turn off the ability to receive any of these cookies by adjusting the browser in your computer. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether.

Other cookies that you may receive during your sessions here are from third-party service providers or third-party ad servers. Third-party ad servers collect and use non-personal identifiable information about your visits to the services and other web sites in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out of having this information used by third-party ad servers that are part of the Network Advertising Initiative to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

Ads for the Services

When you view an ad for the services on other sites, third-party advertising companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. The services and advertising companies may also use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to note which pages you visit after viewing the ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track response to advertising efforts.

Third Party Information

If you choose to use the service to send a story to a friend, you will be prompted for your email address and your friend’s email address in order to fulfill your request and let the recipient know who sent the story.

Data Retention

Your information will be retained for as long as necessary to use it for the purposes that have been communicated to you and comply with applicable law or regulations.

Interactive Tools. Certain features of the services give you an opportunity to interact with the blog owner and other users. These may include message boards, tagging and commenting on articles. When you use these features you should be aware that any information you submit there, including your name and e-mail address, may be publicly available to others. The blog owner is not responsible for any information you choose to submit through these interactive features. However, do be assured that proper care has been taken to protect your rights.

Policy Modifications

When there are any material changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be informed by a notice on the home page of this blog stating that the policy has been updated, and also by changing the date of the last update on this page.

Questions, Comments and Concerns

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the Privacy Policy, you may contact the blog owner by submitting your queries on the contact form by clicking on the contact link.