Privacy
Thank you for visiting https://stockzoa.com (the "Site"). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at the Site. This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Use.
Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.
1. Introduction
We are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you share with us.
If you are a registered user, you will have your own stockzoa.com email account ("stockzoa.com Email Account"). By using your stockzoa.com Email Account, you may send messages to and receive messages from other registered users. You are strictly prohibited from sending unsolicited or unauthorized advertisements, spam, chain letters, etc. Any information that you send within such a message is visible only to the message recipients. Please note that some actions you take, such as replying to a topic, posting comments, etc. may subscribe you automatically to getting notifications to your stockzoa.com email account. Please further note that some notifications, such as a notification for receiving a private message to your stockzoa.com email account, may be enabled by default.
We may use your email address and stockzoa.com email account to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding our services, and those of our advertisers who may have relevant offers.
You may choose not to receive email from a particular sender by rolling your mouse over the text of an email in your stockzoa.com email account and blocking that sender. If you receive the email from stockzoa.com in an email account other than your stockzoa.com email account and wish to block that sender, simply go into your stockzoa.com email account and block that sender in the same way. Furthermore, if you do not wish to receive email from one of our advertisers, you may unsubscribe from receiving further email from that advertiser.
Third Party Service Providers
If you choose to provide us with your Personal Information on the Site, we may transfer that Personal Information within stockzoa.com or to stockzoa.com 's third-party service providers, but only to provide services on the Site, across borders, and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world.
We do not sell Personal Information to third parties. We do allow third party service providers to collect Personal Information through our Site and share Personal Information with third party service providers for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including without limitation advertising and marketing on our Site based on users’ online activities over time and across different services and devices.
We may also share aggregated information (information about our users that we combine so that it no longer identifies or references an individual user) and other anonymized information for regulatory compliance, industry and market analysis, research, demographic profiling, marketing and advertising, and other business purposes.
Data We Collect | Purposes | Third Party Service Providers with whom we may share your personal data |
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Your email address | We use your email address to send you email alerts and email newsletters which you choose, and to enable you to log into the website. | Amazon Web Services Inc. (Our cloud storage provider) Sendgrid, Inc. FullStory, Inc. |
User IDs and cookies | This information allows us to customize content and advertising to you | .Amazon Web Services Inc. |
In order to comply with information requests which we periodically receive from legal authorities, we currently maintain an unlimited retention period.
For inquiries with regard to your personal information, you may contact us via our dedicated email box: privacy@stockzoa.com or via the messaging function directly on our site https://stockzoa.com/privacy-policy.
stockzoa.com strives to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy. Although legal requirements may vary from country to country, stockzoa.com intends to adhere to the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy even if, in connection with the above, we transfer your Personal Information from your country to countries that may not require an "adequate" level of protection for your Personal Information. In other words, our goal is to provide protection for your Personal Information no matter where that Personal Information is collected, transferred, or retained. Finally, we may disclose your Personal Information or any information you submitted via the Site and its services (including via your stockzoa.com email account) if we have a good faith belief that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, ii) enforce our Terms of Service including investigations of potential violations thereof, iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues, or iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of stockzoa.com , its users, yourself or the public.
2. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Web Cookies
A “Web Cookie” is a string of information that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the site. We use Web Cookies to track the pages that users visit during each Site session, both to help us improve users’ experiences and to help us understand how the Site is being used. As with other non-Personal Information gathered from users of the Site, we analyze and disclose in aggregated form information gathered using Web Cookies, in order to help us, our partners and others better understand how the Site is being used. We do not attempt to link information gathered using Web Cookies to Personal Information. USERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO HAVE WEB COOKIES PLACED ON THEIR COMPUTERS SHOULD SET THEIR BROWSERS TO REFUSE WEB COOKIES BEFORE ACCESSING THE SITE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE SITE MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF WEB COOKIES. USERS WHO REFUSE WEB COOKIES ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY.Web Beacons
A “Web Beacon” is an object that is embedded in a web page that is usually invisible to the user and allows website operators to check whether a user has viewed a particular web page or an email. We may use Web Beacons on the Site and in emails to count users who have visited particular pages, viewed emails, and to deliver co-branded services. Web Beacons are not used to access users’ Personal Information; they are a technique we may use to compile aggregated statistics about Site usage. Web Beacons collect only a limited set of information including a Web Cookie number, time and date of a page or email view, and a description of the page or email on which the Web Beacon resides. You may not decline Web Beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all Web Cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a Web Cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline Web Cookies on an individual basis.3. Privacy Principles
To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:
- Notice
- Choice
- Security
- Access/Accuracy
3-1. Notice
Other than as set forth above in the section “Third Party Service Providers” we do not currently provide your Personal Information to third parties.
3-2. Choice
You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to stockzoa.com. The notices we will provide where stockzoa.com collects Personal Information on the Site should help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit most of the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services that involve our interaction with you.
3-3. Security
We have implemented suitable security policies, rules and technical measures to protect and safeguard the Personal Information under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification, unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and data processors that have access to and are associated with the processing of your Personal Information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.
3-4. Access/Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, stockzoa.com wishes to maintain accurate Personal Information. You may check your profile and add information, delete information or correct any incorrect information.
4. Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain links to other sites. Other sites may also reference or link to our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.
5. Childrens' Privacy
The Site is not structured to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 18 years of age.
6. Commitment
We are committed to protecting your privacy. Protecting your privacy online is an evolving area, and the Sites are constantly evolving to meet these demands. If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@stockzoa.com. While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.
7. Your Consent
By using this Site, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and to stockzoa.com's processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes.
Updated: March 27, 2020