Privacy Policy
Freund Investing, LLC. (”Freund Investing,” “FI,” or “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from you. Please read the following to understand our practices regarding personal information and how they affect you as you use our features and services. This statement discloses our current privacy practices.
What Information Does FI Gather About You?
FI collects information about our readers so that we can provide a more interesting and useful service, as well as more appropriate advertising. We ask for your name, e-mail address, and other personal information when you register to use certain features of our Web site, or if you sign up for special or personalized services, such as our e-mail newsletters. We also may ask for this information at other times, such as when you enter contests or other promotions sponsored by FI and/or our partners. We sometimes conduct surveys as well, although you do not have to respond to them.
When you place an order for a product or service, we need to know the sort of information typically used for credit card transactions, such as your name, mailing and billing addresses (and shipping address, if different), telephone number, and credit card number and expiration date. Gathering this information allows us to process and fulfill your order and notify you of your order status. We will also use your information to contact you regarding your order if necessary. We encrypt all of this information using Secure Socket Layers (SSL) technology.
How does FI use my personal information?
FI collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized experience possible. The information you provide when signing up for our any of our products is used solely by FI to compile an aggregate listing of those who are our customers as well as to bill our customers and send them the products they request.
Will FI disclose any of my personal information?
FI will not disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, except as described in this Privacy Statement. With the few exceptions that we explain here, we do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information to our advertisers, although we do provide aggregate information.
As for individually identifiable information, we may disclose it only when we have your consent.
What kind of security measures do you take to protect my information from accidental loss or disclosure?
FI is committed to protecting your personal information. We store only your name, e-mail address, phone number, and account status on our servers. We DO NOT store your credit card information. Our payment partner, PayPal, an industry leader in payment processing, handles this information. Please look over PayPal’s Buyer Protection policy.
Will FI use my information for direct mailings?
If you register with FI or sign up for or buy any of our products or services, we will send you information about our various products and services.
How do you respect children’s privacy?
Our sites are not directed at children under the age of 13. We operate our sites in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13.
How will I know whether FI’s privacy policy has changed?
We may change this Privacy Statement at any time, but we will give notice of any material change (or any notices that we are required to give you) on our web-sites and/or in e-mail messages.