This privacy policy (“policy”) will help you understand how TheAdvice.com, LLC (“us”, “we”, “our”) uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use any of the TheAdvice.com Personal Finance Network sites that include: www.theadvice.com, www.bankingadvice.com, www.borrowingadvice.com, www.creditcardadvice.com, www.directadvice.com, www.insuranceadvice.com, www.investingadvice.com or www.retirementadvice.com (“blog”).
We reserve the right to change this policy at any given time, of which you will be promptly updated. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page.
What User Data We Collect
When you visit the blog, we may collect the following data:
- Your IP address.
- Your contact information and email address.
- Other information such as interests and preferences.
- Data profile regarding your online behavior on our blog.
Why We Collect Your Data
We are collecting your data for several reasons:
- To better understand your needs.
- To improve our services and products.
- To send you promotional emails containing the information we think you will find interesting.
- To contact you to fill out surveys and participate in other types of market research.
- To customize our blog according to your online behavior and personal preferences.
Safeguarding and Securing the Data
TheAdvice.com, LLC is committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential. TheAdvice.com, LLC has done all in its power to prevent data theft, unauthorized access, and disclosure by implementing the latest technologies and software, which help us safeguard all the information we collect online.
Cookies and Web Beacons
TheAdvice.com, LLC Site Network does use cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners may include Google Adsense, CJ, Amazon.com.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on TheAdvice.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
TheAdvice.com, LLC has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. TheAdvice.com, LLC’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with Google Adsense that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. It could also access and set cookies in your browser, use web beacons as mentioned above.
* Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
* Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and 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.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Google, click here.
Links to Other Websites
Our blog contains links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links TheAdvice.com, LLC is not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting those websites is not governed by this privacy policy agreement. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of the website you go to from our website.
Restricting the Collection of your Personal Data
At some point, you might wish to restrict the use and collection of your personal data. You can achieve this by doing the following:
When you are filling the forms on the blog, make sure to check if there is a box which you can leave unchecked, if you don’t want to disclose your personal information.
If you have already agreed to share your information with us, feel free to contact us via email and we will be more than happy to change this for you.
TheAdvice.com, LLC will not lease, sell or distribute your personal information to any third parties, unless we have your permission. We might do so if the law forces us. Your personal information will be used when we need to send you promotional materials if you agree to this privacy policy.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this site, please contact us at info (at) theadvice (dot) com.