Privacy Policy — 51reports.com

Your privacy is very important to us. Period.

With that in mind, we have created the following Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy, and to describe how we collect information from you and what we do with that information. We request that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.

  1. When you buy something from us, or sign up for a newsletter, or update notifications, or become a forum member, or send us an email, you provide your personal information to us. In most of these cases, we retain this information, and store it on our servers, or with trusted third parties.
  2. In addition, whenever you visit our site, some anonymous information about your visit is automatically collected. This information includes the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the date and time you access the site; the pages that you access while at the site and the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site. None of this information is personally-identifiable, and is only collected to improve the site, analyze trends, and administer the site. We may send cookies (small files containing strings of text) to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. If you want, you can erase all cookies from your browser, or erase all cookies from 51Reports.com, or set your browser to refuse all cookies from 51Reports.com. However, some features and services of 51Reports.com may not function correctly if your cookies are disabled.
  3. We may need to disclose your personal information, without notice, if required by law, or to protect and defend the rights of 51Reports.com or its owners, or in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of 51Reports.com, or the public.
  4. We may display advertisements on our website, and may share aggregated and non-identifying information about our visitors and customers with these advertisers. We may also use this aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver tailored advertisements or joint ventures in some cases. We do not share personal information about our visitors or customers with these advertisers or joint venture companies.
  5. Except in the situations noted above, we will never disclose, share, rent, or sell your personal information to anyone without your prior permission.
  6. We use your personal information to improve your overall experience of the site, to help us create and deliver content most relevant to you, to alert you to newly published articles, special offers, updated information and other new services from 51Reports.com, if requested by you, and to contact you via email, if requested by you.
  7. If you want, you can opt out of certain services. This will cause us to automatically remove your information related to those services from our servers.
  8. Please remember that any information you may disclose in any forum, member directory, or other public areas of our website or the Internet, becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public areas.
  9. This Privacy Policy applies to 51Reports.com and its pages only. We do not have control over sites that we may link to from within our webpages or products. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any other sites that you visit. Additionally, our advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.
  10. We may update this Privacy Policy notice from time to time to reflect the changes in our policy. If there is any significant change in this Privacy Policy, we will either notify you by placing a prominent notice on the home page of 51Reports.com, or by sending you an email, if you have subscribed to one of our newsletters. Your continued use of the site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy Statement and any updates.

Last updated: April 26, 2008