https://edvesting.com/privacy-policy/
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) of Edvesting.com, and all related content, materials and services (collectively, the “Site”) is hereby made effective as of September 21, 2020, by Edvesting, LLC, (“Edvesting” or “we” or “us” or “our”).
When you (“you” or “your” or “user” or “member”) browse the Site, register for a membership, or use our products, services or other materials available on the Site, you will provide certain information to us and we will learn, collect, use and share certain information about you for various purposes, as more fully set forth in this Policy.
By using or accessing the Site, you agree that you have read and understood this Policy, and acknowledge and consent to the learning, collection, use and sharing of your information as described in this Policy. If you do not agree with any portion of this Policy, you are prohibited from using or accessing the Site.
Our primary purpose in collecting information about you is to provide you with our products and services, but we will also use this information in connection with the operation and improvement of the Site and our business and may provide this information to our affiliates or to other third parties for use in their businesses or for other purposes.
When you access, visit. register for and otherwise use the Site, we will learn, collect, store and use:
Personal Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information are together referred to herein as “Information”.
Using the Site. When you access, visit and use the Site, we automatically receive and store the uniform resource locator of the prior webpage that you were on and of the webpage where you go after you leave the Site. We also receive and store additional Information such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser types, domain name, and other statistical data involving your access, browsing and use of the Site. This Information is generally collected passively using various technologies, but this Information may also be provided by you through interactions or communications with the Site or us.
Registration. In order to become a registered user of the Site or to use or obtain certain products or services offered on or through the Site, we will request, and you will need to provide us with, Personal Information such as your name, postal and/or email address, telephone, fax, age or mobile numbers. Registered users who sign up for any trial membership, premium membership or other account, product or service must also provide billing and credit card information. Without providing
Personal Information, you cannot create an account, become a registered user of the Site, or obtain our products or services. We will use this Information to provide our products and services to you, in connection with our business and operations and in other ways that are provided in this Policy. We may also collect certain other Information from you such as demographic information. Providing this information is optional, and is not required.
We may also collect Information when you interact with the Site’s or our customer service in order to assist you or maintain or improve the Site.
Please note that Personal Information you have published on any chat room or forum, including any chat room or forum on the Site, may remain publicly available even if you request that such Information be internally deleted by Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing. We will not post your Personal Information in any public chat rooms or forums.
Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to record your preferences, track your usage of the Site, improve the Site and collect data and other Information. A browser cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your device to help websites and mobile apps remember things about you. Other technologies, including Web storage and identifiers associated with your device, may be used for similar purposes. In addition to browser cookies, Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing also receives and collects Information through other commonly used techniques and technologies, including without limitation:
For example, we use programs, software and/or applications, including, without limitation, Google Analytics, to analyze typical user behavior, improve the Site or in connection with our business or operations; and, for security purposes and to ensure the availability of the Site, we may also use programs, software and applications to monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage to the Site or Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing. And, when you visit the Site, we automatically receive and collect the uniform resource locator of the prior webpage that you were on and of the webpage where you go after the Site, the IP address of your computer, the type of operating system and web browser you are using, your location, date and time of your access, pages viewed on the Site and other Information related to your visit to the Site.
Like most providers of online services, Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing uses cookies and other tracking technologies for a number of reasons, including, without limitation, protecting your Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing data and account, helping us see which features are most popular, counting visitors to a page, improving our users’ experience, keeping our services secure, and generally providing you with a better, more intuitive, and satisfying experience. Most cookies we use fall into one of the following general categories:
Cookies are automatically placed on your computer when you access the Site. Your browser or device may allow you to block or otherwise limit the use of cookies. Cookies are an important part of how our services work, so removing, rejecting, or limiting the use of them could affect the availability and functionality of our services.
Your browser may provide you with the option to refuse some or all browser cookies. You may also be able to remove cookies from your browser. For more information about how to manage browser cookies, please follow the instructions provided by your browser.
Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing is solely an informational and educational platform and online community, providing impersonal advice and education so you can independently trade your own funds and securities. We do not provide investment advisory services or trade securities for the account of others. We are not an investment adviser or broker-dealer, do not provide advice on the value or advisability of your purchases of securities, and do not effect or facilitate transactions or otherwise handle securities or funds of others.
We only communicate with you through the contact information and social media accounts on the Site, would never give you personalized investment advice, and would never ask you for your social security number, to wire money or to provide access or information on your financial or securities accounts (except for billing purposes as set forth above)! Don’t be fooled by scams or other imposters asking for this information, they are not from Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing! If someone pretending to be affiliated with Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing asks you for this information, please contact support@edvesting.com.
Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing uses your Information, including Personal Information, in connection with the operation, development and improvement of the Site and other products and services offered by Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing and its affiliates, the operation and billing of your account and/or membership, and for other uses consistent with this Policy. Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing and its affiliates may use your Personal Information for any purpose related to their business or operations, including, without limitation, the following:
There are also certain third-party cookies that reside on our site that collect Personal Information, such as information that uniquely identifies your IP address, browser and internet device, that may be used by these third parties to, among other things, build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on this site and/or other sites.
Please be aware that you are responsible for the payment of any fees or costs incurred by you in connection with receipt of communications from Edvesting or its affiliates, including data, internet, cellular carrier or other similar fees.
Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing may share your Personal Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information with third party vendors who need to know Information about you in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services to you (like payment processing providers) and those that help us understand and enhance our services (like analytics providers). We may also share your Personal Information:
There are also certain third-party cookies that reside on our site that collect Personal Information, such as information that uniquely identifies your IP address, browser and internet device, that may be used by these third parties to, among other things, build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on this site and/or other sites.
Edvesting may also share or otherwise provide Non-Personally Identifiable Information or other aggregated anonymous data or information to third parties (including sub processors) about the users or usage of the Site for purposes that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate.
Edvesting may post and use any testimonials about the Site that you have provided in connection with the marketing and promotion of the Site.
Testimonials and other marketing, promotions and advertisements may include limited Personal Information (such as first name and general location) that you have provided to Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing.
Edvesting may also disclose your Information to third parties as part of our selling the stock or assets of the company, as the result of a proposed or actual change in control of the company, or in connection with any financing of or investment in the company by a third party. Any successor or assign of Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing, including any third party to which Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing transfers or sells its assets, will have the right to continue to use your Information.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY TERM OR PROVISION OF THIS POLICY, PLEASE EXIT THE SITE IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR INFORMATION PROVIDED THEREBY SHALL INDICATE YOUR CONSENT AND AGREEMENT TO THIS POLICY
Access to and Protection of Your Personal Information. You may access, modify and correct some Personal Information provided to us through your account information on the Site. If you update, modify or correct any such Personal Information, we may keep copies of your Personal Information prior to such update, modification or correction for uses provided for in this Policy. To the extent that you wish to access, modify or correct Personal Information that is not available through your account information, you may contact us in the manner set forth below. We will endeavor to respond to your request in a timely manner.
Personal Information will be stored by us in databases or servers owned and maintained by us or our affiliates, agents or service providers. Personal Information will be protected in a commercially reasonable manner. We take what we believe to be industry standard security measures to help safeguard your Personal Information, but no system is entirely secure. Although we protect your Personal Information in a commercially reasonable manner and with industry standard security measures, we do not guarantee that your Information will always remain secure.
We process your Personal Information while your account is active or as needed to provide you our services. If you close your account(s), your Personal Information will be retained for seven years from the closure of your account.
Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature. This feature lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. Our Website is not currently set up to respond to those signals.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Site, nor the information or content contained in such websites, nor any third party’s use of Information or other data or information which we have sold, disclosure, shared or otherwise provided to them. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Site to another website, this Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on the Site, are subject to that website’s rules, terms and conditions, and/or policies.
The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of 13. Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing does not intentionally collect any Information on the Site from individuals we actually know are under 13. In fact, registration for and use of the Site by persons under the age of 18 is expressly prohibited. If we become aware that we have collected any Information, including without limitation Personal Information, from a person under age 13, we will take steps to remove that Information.
This GDPR Supplement to the Privacy Policy (the “GDPR Supplement”) of www.edvesting.com (the “Site”), is hereby made effective as of June 25, 2018, by Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing (“Edvesting” or “we” or “us” or “our”), and supplements that certain Privacy Policy of Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing, dated December 11, 2017 (the “Privacy Policy”), for the citizens of the European Union (the “EU”) described below.
This GDPR Supplement is intended to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data, and Repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (the “GDPR”).
This GDPR Supplement is directed to, and applies only to, residents of the European Union, to whom Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing offers goods or services, or who access the Site and may be subject to monitoring or the collection of personal data by Edvesting (“you” or “your” or “EU User” or “EU Member”), as when you browse the Site, register for a membership, or use our goods or services or other materials available on or through the Site, you will be providing certain Information to us that could be used to identify you, and we will learn, collect, use and share certain Information about you for various purposes, as more fully set forth in the Privacy Policy and this GDRP Supplement. For clarification, this GDPR Supplement applies to any Information of EU residents that is subject to the GDPR.
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Information about you, or may otherwise need the Information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Your right to access includes the right to obtain a copy of the personal data Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing is processing. In compliance with the GDPR, Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing will provide one such copy for free, but Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing may charge a reasonable fee for any additional copies.
Your right to erasure described above, does not apply where Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing’s processing of your personal data is necessary for:
If you exercise your right to restrict processing, and if your exercise of said right is valid, then Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing can store your personal data but cannot otherwise process your personal data without your consent, unless otherwise processing your personal data is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the EU or a Member State.
Where Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing’s processing of your personal information is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing, you nevertheless have a right to object to Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing’s processing of your personal information on grounds relating to your particular situation. If you exercise this right, Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing cannot process your personal data unless Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing demonstrates that it has overriding legitimate grounds to process your personal data.
You have a right to object to Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing’s processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes. If you exercise this right, Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing cannot process your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
In addition to the Site, this policy also applies to any Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing mobile applications and any Information that we may collect through such applications.
This Policy has been adopted and is effective as of the date set forth above, without waiving or otherwise releasing any right or obligation under any prior privacy policy or similar document or agreement of Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing, including without limitation any prior privacy policy or similar document or agreement set forth on the Site. This Policy hereby amends and restates any such prior privacy policy.
Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing reserves the right to revise this Policy at any time without notice. By using the Site, you are agreeing to be bound by the then-current version of this Policy, and your continued use of the Site reaffirms your agreement to the then-current Policy. You agree to consult the Site regularly for up-to-date versions and information about this Policy. Without limiting the foregoing, we will provide notification by electronic mail, check box, highlighted text on the Site, or other means we deem adequate, of the adoption of a revised or amended Policy that contains material revisions, amendments or other changes to the terms.
In the event that the terms of this Policy conflict with or are inconsistent with any provision of the Terms and Conditions, the Terms and Conditions shall govern.
Any claim under this Policy or otherwise related to the Site or Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of law provisions and shall be exclusively resolved by a state or federal court located in Bexar County, Texas. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within Bexar County, Texas, for the purpose of litigating all such claims. Notwithstanding the above, you agree that Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) or to enforce its rights or remedies in any jurisdiction.
Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing reserves the right to limit the availability of the Site, and any other products or services of Edvesting Educated Trading and Investing, to any person, geographic area, or jurisdiction, in any manner and at any time, in its sole discretion.
If any provision of this Policy is found by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be modified so as to render it enforceable and effective to the maximum extent possible in order to effect the intention of the provision; and if a court or arbitrator finds the modified provision invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Policy will not be affected in any way.