This Privacy Policy explains how Dow-Jones-DJIA.com may collect, use and aggregate personal information about you on Dow-Jones-DJIA.com, and its affiliated web sites. Dow-Jones-DJIA.com respects your personal privacy and is committed to protecting it.

Your IP address

For each visitor to the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com site, the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com servers automatically collect information about which pages are visited and the IP address or domain name of visitors. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web Site. Your IP address is not linked to personally identifiable information but is used to gather broad demographic information. This information helps us tailor and improve your experience on the Web Site.

Information we collect

Surveys: We conduct periodic online surveys. For example, visitors to Dow-Jones-DJIA.com may see a pop-up window or ad box asking them to voluntarily participate in a user survey. Web site usage: We automatically collect IP addresses and web site usage information from you when you visit our site. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our web sites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page, the length of their visits, their browser type and their operating systems.

How we use information that is collected

Dow-Jones-DJIA.com may use information collected from visitors in the following ways:

• To improve existing features or develop new features, products and services by analyzing how site features are being used.
• To provide advertisers or other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns. Personally identifiable information is kept private and not distributed to third parties.

Children/direct notice to parents

Dow-Jones-DJIA.com will not knowingly collect any personal information from individuals under 13 years of age without parental consent. Where appropriate, Dow-Jones-DJIA.com will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our site and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure parental consent to such submission. Parental consent will be required in the event Dow-Jones-DJIA.com provides a feature or event such as a contest or promotion that requires submission of information by children. Notice may be provided in a number of ways, including sending an e-mail message or notice by postal mail. At any time, you may write to us to request a summary of any information we have retained as part of such activities or to ask that it be deleted. Parents should be aware that the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com Privacy Policy will govern our use of personal data, but that information which is voluntarily given by children (or others) in chat sessions, e-mail exchanges, bulletin boards or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited mail. Dow-Jones-DJIA.com encourages all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of their personal data while using the Internet.

Cookies

Dow-Jones-DJIA.com or its affiliated sites may place a “cookie” on the browser of your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common in the Internet industry, and many major web sites use them to provide useful features to their customers. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, but may be used to tell when your computer has contacted the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com. Dow-Jones-DJIA.com and its affiliates use the information for editorial purposes and for other purposes such as delivery of features and advertisements, so that Dow-Jones-DJIA.com can customize delivery of information specific to your interests without compromising privacy. For example, cookies may be used to ensure that you will not see the same ads too often in a single session.

Links
This site may contain links to other sites. Dow-Jones-DJIA.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites, including any sites that may indicate a special relationship or partnership with Dow-Jones-DJIA.com or the sites of Dow-Jones-DJIA.com advertisers that you go to by clicking on a banner ad on the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com site. Dow-Jones-DJIA.com does not disclose unique identifiers to those responsible for the linked sites. The linked sites, however, may collect personal information from you when you link to their site. This collecting of information is not subject to Dow-Jones-DJIA.com control. To ensure protection of your privacy, always review the privacy policy of the sites you visit by linking from our Web Site.

Advertisements

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Notification of changes

This Privacy Statement may be revised over time as new features are added to Dow-Jones-DJIA.com or as Internet security and privacy standards evolve. We will post those changes prominently so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We do, however, recommend that you read this Privacy Statement each time you use Dow-Jones-DJIA.com, in case you missed our notice of changes to the Privacy Policy.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this site, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com site and exit the site immediately. Your continued use of the Dow-Jones-DJIA.com site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.