Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. It is WallStreetTrends' policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable laws and regulations regarding any personal information we may collect about you. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information that is collected and recorded by WallStreetTrends and how we use it. This Privacy Policy applies to all our services including our website and mobile app. We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: March 23, 2023
Information We Collect
Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices while accessing our products and services.
Personal Information
We may ask you to provide us with personal information that can be used to contact or identify you, which may include one or more of the following:
Name
Email address
Social media profiles
Date of birth
Phone number
Home/mailing address
Username and password
Usage Information
We collect information about your activity on WallStreetTrends, including:
Your posts, comments, reactions, votes, tagged items and other content you submit
If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will collect information about the communication and its content
We collect information on links you interact with across our services (including in our emails sent to you)
You may choose to provide also other information to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in activities or promotions, request customer support, apply for a job, or otherwise communicate with us
Log Data
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, your Internet Service Provider (ISP), the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, information about your approximate location, search terms, ads shown to you on the website, unique device identifiers, the number of clicks, and other diagnostic data, for example technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, device settings, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
While this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons. The purpose of the information is for example for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies for example to track the activity on our service and store certain information. These cookies and tracking technologies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. We use this information to provide optimal experience, enable service functionality, ensure adequate performance, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, maintain security, and improve the quality of our services. Tracking technologies used are beacons and local storage to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our service. The technologies we use may include:
Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as pixels or tags) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Local Storage. We use local storage to save data on your device. We use data from local storage to turn on web navigation, customize what we show you based on your previous interactions with our services, remember your preferences, and measure ad effectiveness. We may also use local storage on other websites, where needed to provide you certain features, or to obtain information about your visits to those sites.
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookie Policy.
Advertisements
When you view or interact with ads we show on WallStreetTrends, we may collect information about those views or interactions (for example watching a video or static ad, or clicking on an ad).
Purchase and Payments
If you make a payment, including through an intermediary, we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes payment information, such as when it was made, information about the service you are purchasing, when a subscription is set to expire or auto-renew, amounts paid or received, your credit or debit card number and other card information, other account and authentication information, as well as billing, shipping and contact details. We use payment processor service to handle the payment information.
Use of Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including, but not limited to:
Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Enable you to customise or personalise your experience of our website
Enable you to access and use our website, including to manage your registration for the service
Improve and expand our website
Understand and analyse how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly (by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications) or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with news, updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
Find and prevent fraud
Use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by us about our service users is among the assets transferred
Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources.
Your WallStreetTrends account has a public profile page. Your profile may contain information about your activities on the website, such as your username, posts, comments, reactions, votes, tagged items and other content you have submitted.
Sharing of Information
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
With service providers: We may share your personal information with for example service providers to monitor and analyse the use of our service; payment services providers who facilitate payments; cloud providers who host our data and our services; and those that provide fraud detection services
For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company
With affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions. For example, we provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people seeing their ads and how their ads are performing, but we don't share information that personally identifies you (your name or email address) unless you give us permission. We only provide general demographic and interest information for advertisers (such as gender, age group, hometown) to help them better understand their audience.
With researchers and academics: We may share your information and content with research partners and academics to conduct research that advances scholarship and innovation that supports our business or mission and enhances discovery and innovation on topics of general social welfare, technological advancement, public interest, health and well-being
With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. Public information can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services such as search engines, APIs and offline media such as TV, and by apps, websites and other services that integrate with our services.
With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may disclose your personal information to:
A parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
Third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms
Our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
Our existing or potential agents or business partners
Sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
Third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to third parties to collect and process data
Transfer of Your Personal Data
The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you initially provided the information. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information
We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you. We do not sell your personal information.
We collect, use and share the data that we have:
To fulfil our Terms of Service
To comply with our legal obligations
To protect your essential interests, or those of others
As necessary in the public interest
As necessary for our legitimate interests, including our interests in providing a safe, personalised, and beneficial service to our users and partners, unless those interests are overruled by your interests or rights that require protection of personal data
Protection of Information
When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. The security of your personal data is important to us, and although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach. You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We keep your personal information only for as long as necessary. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you. However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
The Control of Your Data and Your Rights
You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data that we have collected about you. Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information, you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.
If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third-party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
Additional Information for EEA Clients
Clients in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, correction of, or removal of their personal data; to data portability under certain conditions; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent; and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Since we operate globally, it may be necessary to transfer data, including personal information, to countries outside the European Union. In these cases, we will transfer your data only to such countries as approved by the European Commission as providing adequate level of data protection or enter into legal agreements ensuring an adequate level of data protection.
Additional Information for California Clients
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) obligate us to provide California residents with some specific information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. If you are a California resident, you have specific rights under the CCPA, including the right to demand access to or deletion of your personal information, request to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about you, opt-out of the sale of personal information, and information about our data practices, along with the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
Minor’s Privacy
Minors below the age of 18 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the service. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that a user is under the age of 18, we take steps to delete the account and remove that information from our servers. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors are not using the service. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has used our service or provided us with personal data, please contact us.
Limits of Our Policy
Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
Policy Changes
At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same web page by which you are accessing this privacy policy. If required by law or by our ethics, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Information
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you can contact us by visiting this page on our website: