Privacy Policy

At Trading Post, we value every customer and member. We want your online experience to be the best. To ensure integrity, Trading Post will use customer information collected by us only for identification and contact purposes and/or for demographic information to be used by our staff. This information will be used to help Trading Post ensure that present and future services are best designed to meet its customers' and members' changing needs. Trading Post does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to any third party.

We at Trading Post know that these issues are essential to making this site a success for us and our members. Rest assured that privacy, security and integrity are first and foremost at Trading Post.

1. What data we collect and why
2. How your information is used
3. Who sees your personal information
4. Your privacy with Trading Post
5. Your privacy with our partners and advertisers
6. Our policies on email
7. Cookies and how are they used
8. Your choices and responsibilities
9. Serving of advertisements to our site
10. Third-Party Relationships
11. Use of IP Address



1. What data we collect and why

Our vision at Trading Post is to maximize the services for all of our customers and members.

When first registering with Trading Post, you will be required to give your basic personal information only. After you have become a member you may be asked to provide some additional demographic information through surveys. Your name, address, hobbies, income, age, marital status and occupation may be asked. This information helps us understand your interests and to develop an understanding of what might appeal to you. Based on these demographics, we are able to determine what types of products and specials would benefit our members most. Any information that we collect for demographic purposes will not be used outside Trading Post in any way that could identify you.

As with any other information that you supply to Trading Post, none of the information that we collect will be released in any personally identifiable way, only in aggregate or anonymous form.

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2. How your information is used

We collect information to provide better, more relevant offers to you, whether it is targeted advertising, new products and services that we think our members may like, or choosing new partnerships. In no instance will your personal data be shared with any outside agencies.

We may provide aggregate statistics about our members, site traffic, sales or other related information; however, none of these statistics will ever be able to be identified as having come from you.

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3. Who sees your personal information

Only a very limited number of Trading Post employees ever have access to your personal information. Primarily this information is accessed to provide customer service or to send you your commission checks.

We may use contractors or vendors to help us provide some of the services at our site. If we need to disclose personal information for them to provide the services, it is with the requirement that the information is kept confidential and is used only for those services.

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4. Your privacy with Trading Post

Trading Post will never ask for your username, password or any other personal information in an unsolicited phone call, email or letter.

Further, any contact with Trading Post customer service in which personal information is exchanged with a customer service representative will be used only for the purpose of satisfying that request. Any personal information you provide will not be recorded or used for any reason beyond that of the stated request without your consent.

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5. Your privacy with our partners and advertisers

Trading Post contains links to various other sites. Each of these sites has a privacy policy that may differ from that of Trading Post. The privacy practices of other websites linked to Trading Post are not covered by this privacy policy.

Trading Post will not disclose any of the personal information supplied upon registration to our partners or advertisers. The only information that may be shared between Trading Post is information that pertains to orders. Order information, including order numbers and amounts, may be available to either Trading Post, or third party affiliate program management companies for accurate commission tracking purposes. This information will not be released by Trading Post to other parties unless required by law or to protect Trading Post and its members from losses.

Trading Post does not record any personal information passed from our members to our third-part partners, including credit card information or passwords.

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6. Our policies on email

Regarding e-mail, Trading Post does not send unsolicited or "spam" e-mail. Trading Post uses e-mail addresses collected for a number of e-mail alerts and newsletters which are used to communicate new information, special offers and new products to our members and customers. All members and customers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time. Trading Post does not sell or rent its e-mail lists. It is against Trading Post's policy to provide any customer information to any third party without the member's or customer's prior permission. However, as part of Trading Post's business, content provided by third party sites such as online classifieds and others for third party individuals, Trading Post disclaims any responsibility for the actions of these third parties. Trading Post strongly encourages all of its partners to post their privacy policies on their sites and to subscribe to the same high standard as is stated here.

Trading Post does not support spamming by our members and we explicitly prohibit it in our member agreement. If you would like to report an incident of spamming, please contact compliance@tradingpostfinancial.com. We will investigate and take suitable action at our discretion.

Please understand that, though we may have some small influence over our members, we fundamentally cannot control the online or offline actions of our members or other parties, especially when it comes to their use of email or participation in moderated or unmoderated newsgroups. While we will investigate complaints sent to compliance@tradingpostfinancial.com and take appropriate action with our members, we will typically not provide any information to third parties about our conversations with our members. We encourage people to resolve disputes directly with each other and discourage people from attempting to use Trading Post to police their mailbox or newsgroup.

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7. Cookies and how are they used

Cookies are small text files that a web site can write to your computer. We may use cookies to identify you and allow you to log in once to Trading Post's member section and to shop without having to log in again.

Trading Post requires its members to have cookies enabled in order to track their purchases and orders for commissions.

Generally, we use cookies to:

(a) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service.

(b) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Trading Post is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

(c) Measure certain traffic patterns, and areas of our network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.

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8. Your choices and responsibilities

Periodically we may send you emails on new Trading Post features or special offers. On every one of these emails you will be given the choice to unsubscribe from Trading Post mailings. Choice of membership is yours at all times, and you are free to remove yourself as a member of Trading Post at any time. Simply follow the directions in any of our emails.

You may also choose to what degree you would like us to contact you. When we ask for your account info, you may choose that we contact you with special offers, contact you about your orders, or not contact you for either.

It is the member's responsibility to update and maintain accurate contact information in their account. You can make changes by visiting your account page and entering corrections. Email and street addresses that are entered into a member's personal profile page are the addresses that will be used for all contact.

We will post all changes to this Privacy Agreement here at our site. Please check for revisions when you visit our site again so that you will always be aware of our policies and any changes that might occur. Trading Post reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without notice. All changes will be posted to this page.

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9. Serving of advertisements to our site

Trading Post uses one or more third party companies to serve advertisements at our site. These companies may use cookies to ensure that you do not see the same advertisements too often, but they also may collect information about you when you view or click an advertisement at our site. Cookies that are received with advertisements are read and placed by one of our advertising companies, and Trading Post does not have access to them, nor can we control how they are used. Cookies may also be collected by Trading Post partners on co-branded web sites, so please be aware of this as you visit these sites.

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10. Third-Party Relationships

In order to provide you with new products and features that makes your time more enjoyable at Trading Post, Trading Post has relationships with many of the best media companies throughout the world. You can recognize these sites by the joint branding.

Whenever you provide registration information on co-branded sites, that data may be shared with our media partners. You should make every effort to read these privacy policies, and make an informed decision on your own whether or not to continue based upon these sites' privacy practices and your own discretion. However, we will make every effort to ensure that you have the ability to opt out of the sharing of such data with our media partners.

In addition to finding co-branded sites, you will find direct links on our site to sites offered by third parties. Some of these sites are authorized to use the Trading Post brand and/or logo. We carefully evaluate all parties that are authorized to use our brand and/or logo, and believes that all such sites have adopted acceptable privacy policies. Again, you should read these privacy policies, and make an informed decision on your own whether or not to continue based upon these sites' privacy practices and your own discretion. No third-party sites are covered by this Privacy Policy.

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11. Use of IP Address

An IP address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log in to your internet service provider or through your company's LAN or WAN. Web servers - the big computers that provide web pages for viewing - automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session.

Trading Post may collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report aggregate user information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. We do not ordinarily link a user's IP address to anything personally identifiable to that user, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. However, we can and will use IP addresses to identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site's terms of use or terms of service, or to protect our service, site, or other users.

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