The Financial Arena values its users and their privacy. We do not give out information about our users and your personal details are protected by your user name and password when you use our sites. Furthermore our secure servers protect all information, if you use your credit card to purchase a product then those details are encrypted for additional security.
Your Personal Information
We recognise that your privacy is very important to you and that you have a right to control your Personal Information. Our policy for dealing with any Personal Information that you might disclose to us while visiting our sites is explained below.
You can generally visit our sites without telling us who you are or revealing other Personal Information and we will not collect any Personal Information about you except when you knowingly provide it.
The amount of information we collect about you depends on how you use our sites and whether you elect to give us any information about yourself by becoming a registered TFA Member.
If you visit a site to read or download information we record your server address, domain name, the date and time of your visit and the information downloaded. This information is used for statistical and site development purposes only.We endeavor to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information, which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up-to-date. Your information is stored in secure servers that are protected in secure facilities. However, we are not responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your Personal Information.
You can also play an important role in keeping your Personal Information secure, by maintaining confidentiality of any user name, password, profile and accounts used on our sites. Please advise us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your user name, password, profile or accounts by any other Internet user or any other breach of security.
Should you wish to review or make any corrections to your Personal Information you can do this anytime by using the Edit Profile function in the My Profile section on any of our sites.
Personal information will not be released to persons or entities outside our organisation without your consent except where:
(a) such disclosure is permitted under the Privacy Act 1988;
(b) The Financial Arena is required by law to disclose information to third parties.
Cookies
The Financial Arena uses two types of cookies on our websites. These are session cookies and permanent cookies.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are only used to let our site know that you are the same person wherever you go on our site during a session. For example, if you put a make a posting or buy a product, we confirm that it is you who has provided the information.
Upon closing your browser the session cookie set by this Website is destroyed and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our Website at a later date.
Session cookies are short-lived, are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser.
Permanent Cookies
Through the use of the cookie The Financial Arena is able to:
(a) recognise your browser each time it visits our site; and
(b) track which pages you visit whilst at our site.
The Financial Arena may use this information to build up a consumer profile of its users, we don't use this information to tailor offers specific to individuals.
TFA e-mails a number of regular newsletters to registered users. Each newsletter reaches an undisclosed list of recipients. In other words, none of the recipients can see any of the other names or e-mail addresses listed in the "To" field. Among other subjects, TFA newsletters highlight recent discussion topics from our TFA Investor boards, both free and for-purchase research reports, articles with investment ideas, the latest analysis of Internet stocks, and new features on the site, as well as other information designed to give you investment ideas. If you do not wish to receive our newsletters, please reply to them with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
Linked Websites are not under the control of The Financial Arena and we are not responsible for the conduct of companies linked to our sites. Before disclosing your Personal Information on any other Website we advise you to examine their terms and conditions of use.
Under the Privacy Act (1988) The Financial Arena is obliged to provide Personal Information of an individual which has been collected, used or disclosed since 21 December 2001. If you have any queries, problems or complaints relating to your privacy or would like to access your personal information held by The Financial Arena, please click here to contact us.
