1. Introduction Welcome to FEEDLOOOP.ORG (“we,” “our,” or “us”), a finance news blog. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at feedlooop.org, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
a. Personal Data You Disclose to Us: We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us when you:
- Submit comments: When you leave a comment on our articles, we collect your name (or chosen alias), email address, and the content of your comment. Your chosen name/alias and comment will be publicly visible. Your email address is collected for verification and moderation purposes but will not be publicly displayed.
- Sign up for newsletters: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
- Contact us: If you contact us via email ([email protected]) or any provided contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.
b. Data Collected Automatically: When you access the Site, we may automatically collect certain information, including:
- Log Data: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring pages, pages viewed, and the dates/times you access the Site.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use the Site, such as the articles you read, the time spent on pages, and your navigation paths.
- Device Data: Information about the computer or mobile device you use to access the Site, including device ID, model, and manufacturer.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.
- Cookies are small data files 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 portions of our Site.
- Web Beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) are small graphic images or other web programming code that may be included in our web pages and messages.
3. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. We may use information collected about you via the Site for purposes such as:
- To provide and maintain our Site and its content.
- To enable user comments and moderate them.
- To send you newsletters and marketing communications, if you have subscribed.
- To respond to your inquiries and offer customer support.
- To analyze Site usage and trends to improve your experience and our content.
- To monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
- To personalize your experience on the Site, such as suggesting relevant articles.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues or security incidents.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To comply with legal obligations.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
a. By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process (e.g., a court order, subpoena), to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
b. Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including website hosting, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and marketing assistance. These service providers will only have access to your information as necessary to perform their functions and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
c. Advertising Partners: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
d. Business Transfers: In the event that FEEDLOOOP.ORG is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
- Our Use of Cookies: We use cookies to remember your preferences, understand how you interact with our content, and support our analytics and advertising efforts.
- Third-Party Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Managing Cookies: You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies or delete them. However, blocking all cookies might affect your ability to access certain features of our Site.
6. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
7. Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable laws (e.g., GDPR), you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
10. Third-Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave our Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. 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.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
FEEDLOOOP.ORG Email: [email protected]