Your privacy is very important to us. At Smith and Company Financial Corporation we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, or to protect our rights.
- We do not store personal information on our website servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Smith and Company Financial Corporation collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Smith and Company Financial Corporation may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Smith and Company Financial Corporation also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Smith and Company Financial Corporation only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s website choose to interact with Smith and Company Financial Corporation in ways that require Smith and Company Financial Corporation to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Smith and Company Financial Corporation gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Smith and Company Financial Corporation updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Smith and Company Financial Corporation collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Smith and Company Financial Corporation. Smith and Company Financial Corporation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Smith and Company Financial Corporation may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Smith and Company Financial Corporation may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by a service to help identify spam. Smith and Company Financial Corporation may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Smith and Company Financial Corporation does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Smith and Company Financial Corporation discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s behalf or to provide services available at Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Smith and Company Financial Corporation will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Smith and Company Financial Corporation discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Smith and Company Financial Corporation believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Smith and Company Financial Corporation, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Smith and Company Financial Corporation website and have supplied your email address, Smith and Company Financial Corporation may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Smith and Company Financial Corporation and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Smith and Company Financial Corporation takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Smith and Company Financial Corporation may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Smith and Company Financial Corporation’s sole discretion. Smith and Company Financial Corporation encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.