Privacy Policy
All-the-analysts.com (ATA) knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the ATA website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy covers ATA's treatment of personal information that ATA gathers when you are on the ATA website and when you use ATA services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that ATA does not own or control, or to individuals that ATA does not employ or manage.
Information Collected by ATA
We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience and to generate further value. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our ATA users:
Information You Provide to Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.Registration: In order for you to use ATA services, such as submitting comments, ratings or tags to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require select personal information (including your name, industry, company size and e-mail address).
We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other ATA services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. ATA and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain quot;traffic data quot; on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, ATA cookie information, and the page you requested. ATA uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website. Some ATA features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
ATA may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User Profile pages.
Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While ATA will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
ATA may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we tranfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people.
The quot;help quot; portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies are required for many of ATA's features.
Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.
Sharing Your Information
Because ATA enables people to discover and share information with one another, information about the people who use ATA is an integral part of the ATA experience. Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.
ATA only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
Developing new services.
Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if ATA, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
Protection of ATA and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of ATA, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
ATA Personnel: ATA personnel and authorized consultants, partner organizations and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of ATA business or to offer or promote additional services.
User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other ATA users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on ATA where we allow you to tell other ATA users about yourself and your interests. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile by visiting the relevant section of your User Profile.
API: ATA will allow third parties access to all ATA data this is already publicly available through the ATA website. ATA will keep private any passwords and blog settings.
Syndication: ATA allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the ATA website.
With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.
Keeping Information Secure
Your ATA account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
Ways to Control Display and Use of Your Information
As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting new links.
By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add or delete personal information on our website. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
You may request deletion of your ATA account by e-mailing us at support@alltheanalysts.com.
ATA will contact members by email periodically to inform of updates or feature changes. If you do not wish to receive e-mail from us or other ATA users, please email unsubscribe@alltheanalysts.com.
However, please note that you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.
If you do not wish to have people who know you by your email address find you via the Member Directory service, please visit the relevant section of your User Profile to opt out of this feature.
As explained earlier, the quot;help quot; portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.
Children below the age of 18 must receive their parents' permission before using ATA or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
Data integrity
ATA processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
ATA processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
ATA may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the ATA website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit ATA website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of Scottish law.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 1, 2007 and last updated January 10th, 2008.