Privacy Policy

DiscussEconomics.com takes your privacy seriously. We understand many online ventures, including many reputible firms, sell user information to vairous marketing agencies. DiscussEconomics.com will never sell your information to any third party entities. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers:

  • This policy covers how DiscussEconomics.com treats personal information collected and received, including information related to your past use of DiscussEconomics.com 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.
  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that DiscussEconomics.com does not own or control, or to people that DiscussEconomics.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General Information:

  • DiscussEconomics.com collects personal information when you register with DiscussEconomics.com, when you use DiscussEconomics.com products or services, when you visit DiscussEconomics.com pages or the pages of certain DiscussEconomics.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. DiscussEconomics.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip 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 DiscussEconomics.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  • DiscussEconomics.com 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.
  • DiscussEconomics.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, DiscussEconomics.com cookie information, and the page you request.
  • DiscussEconomics.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children:

  • DiscussEconomics.com will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission.
  • DiscussEconomics.com does not ask a child under age 13 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:

  • DiscussEconomics.com 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:
    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with DiscussEconomics.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help DiscussEconomics.com communicate with you about offers from DiscussEconomics.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    • We have a parent’s permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing DiscussEconomics.com to collect and use their child’s information without consenting to DiscussEconomics.com sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
    • 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 DiscussEconomics.com’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • We transfer information about you if DiscussEconomics.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, DiscussEconomics.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • DiscussEconomics.com 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.
    • DiscussEconomics.com 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.

Cookies:

  • DiscussEconomics.com may set and access DiscussEconomics.com cookies on your computer.
  • DiscussEconomics.com 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 DiscussEconomics.com’s cookies.
  • Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
    Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
    Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Confidentiality and Security:

  • 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.
  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

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

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