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How We Use Your Information</b></h2><p data-block-key="cel5d"><b>3.1 Business Purposes for Which We Collect and Use Personal Data:</b></p><p data-block-key="2lego">When we have a legal basis for collecting your personal information , we do so from a variety of sources, including without limitation your explicit input and interaction on our web sites, through our advertisements on other web sites, and through third parties that have information about you or about people that exhibit similarities to the data we have collected about you. We may combine your data with anonymized, aggregated data to draw inferences about you or your interests. We use all this data to make our site and our advertising relevant to you.</p><p data-block-key="ct5wo"></p><p data-block-key="hw0br"><b>Business Purpose & Categories of Personal Data</b></p><p data-block-key="pbmjx"><b>Operations</b><br/> To administer our site, site performance, and internal operations, such as to conduct troubleshooting, testing, and projecting usage volume and impact</p><ul><li data-block-key="wik1b">Unique personal identifiers, such as online identifiers, usernames, or account names</li><li data-block-key="kw493">Email address</li><li data-block-key="4dvyi">Browser or device identifiers</li><li data-block-key="g56ea">Internet or electronic network activity, such as browsing history, search history, engagement with ads, interaction with web site or mobile app, and email receipt and response</li></ul><p data-block-key="buoek"><b>Security</b></p><p data-block-key="9h0wa">To keep our site safe and secure and to control access to your account and services</p><ul><li data-block-key="lu3ri">Name</li><li data-block-key="85r5u">Physical addresses, both mailing and billing</li><li data-block-key="rw6op">Payment methods and numbers, such as a credit or debit card</li><li data-block-key="ynfmq">Unique personal identifiers, such as online identifiers, usernames, or account names</li><li data-block-key="jse20">Browser or device identifiers</li><li data-block-key="a43yx">Physical/geolocation or network location information, such as GPS location or Internet Protocol (IP) address</li><li data-block-key="oku4k">Internet or electronic network activity, such as browsing history, search history, engagement with ads, interaction with web site or mobile app, and email receipt and response</li></ul><p data-block-key="2r13m"><b>Advertising</b></p><p data-block-key="lfyov">To deliver relevant advertising to you and to measure and optimize the effectiveness of our advertising</p><ul><li data-block-key="46vd9">Browser or device identifiers</li><li data-block-key="nhnld">Physical/geolocation or network location information, such as GPS location or Internet Protocol (IP) address</li><li data-block-key="n53l6">Characteristics of protected classes, such as age and sex</li><li data-block-key="ox6ak">Education (e.g., level of education, IDs, dates, attendance, disciplinary actions, disabilities)</li><li data-block-key="uf2zh">Commercial information, such as records of your purchases or property</li><li data-block-key="wrxp2">Personal interests</li><li data-block-key="mkfzz">Inferences about consumer preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes</li></ul><p data-block-key="m5seg"><b>Marketing</b></p><p data-block-key="dt9px">To keep you informed about products and services similar to the ones you subscribe to – on our site and elsewhere on the internet</p><ul><li data-block-key="6qnco">Name</li><li data-block-key="kc3q9">Email addresses</li><li data-block-key="lna4a">Phone numbers</li><li data-block-key="hnjq9">Physical addresses, both mailing and billing</li><li data-block-key="x6yzf">Unique personal identifiers, such as online identifiers, usernames, or account names</li></ul><p data-block-key="0q1yy"><b>Optimization</b></p><p data-block-key="hd052">To ensure our content, layout, and offerings are presented in the most effective manner for you and devices</p><ul><li data-block-key="fy4fz">Unique personal identifiers, such as online identifiers, usernames, or account names</li><li data-block-key="o31ot">Email address</li><li data-block-key="avs03">Browser or device identifiers</li><li data-block-key="iphiv">Internet or electronic network activity, such as browsing history, search history, engagement with ads, interaction with web site or mobile app, and email receipt and response</li></ul><p data-block-key="8wadg"><b>Fulfillment</b></p><p data-block-key="ok8l7">To fulfill your transactions and to deliver information about goods and services you have requested, or that we think you would be interested in</p><ul><li data-block-key="kdck0">Name</li><li data-block-key="7osbr">Email addresses</li><li data-block-key="ffjj8">Phone numbers</li><li data-block-key="otott">Physical addresses</li></ul><p data-block-key="coqfw"><b>Personalization</b></p><p data-block-key="zibqd">To allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so.</p><ul><li data-block-key="hx2xg">Email addresses</li><li data-block-key="774l0">Unique personal identifiers, such as online identifiers, usernames, or account names</li><li data-block-key="aiu56">Browser or device identifiers</li></ul><p data-block-key="izf18"><b>Research</b></p><p data-block-key="isq80">To better understand our members, potential members, and visitors so we can improve our products and services, and better target how we deliver information about those products and services</p><ul><li data-block-key="0a2u7">Unique personal identifiers, such as online identifiers, usernames, or account names</li><li data-block-key="r5yh8">Browser or device identifiers</li><li data-block-key="tpxfl">Physical/geolocation or network location information, such as GPS location or Internet Protocol (IP) address</li><li data-block-key="vjr81">Characteristics of protected classes, such as age and sex</li><li data-block-key="lb9dg">Education (e.g., level of education, IDs, dates, attendance, disciplinary actions, disabilities)</li><li data-block-key="jwzy7">Commercial information, such as records of your purchases or property</li><li data-block-key="dug5x">Personal interests</li><li data-block-key="yh8sf">Inferences about consumer preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes</li></ul><h4 data-block-key="qy12d"><b>3.2 Categories of Service Providers to Which Personal Data is Disclosed:</b></h4><p data-block-key="qvnib">We utilize service providers to process personal information for a variety of purposes that would be difficult for our business to conduct on our own. For example, to increase the likelihood of successfully processing your credit card when you purchase access to one of our services, we may wish to submit a well-formatted address to the credit card company. We may send the address you give us to a service from the U.S. Postal Service to try to verify your address and provide its canonical version of your address with all the fields in the expected locations. In some states, these types of external companies are called service providers. We disclose personal information about you to the following categories of service providers in order to process data for us:</p><ul><li data-block-key="ofuev">Data verification providers, like the US Postal Service</li><li data-block-key="swxmx">Content delivery providers, like Strongmail or Hubspot</li><li data-block-key="4uhgi">Traffic monitoring and analytics providers, like Hotjar</li></ul><p data-block-key="kwmis">In order to maintain relevant and accurate personal information about you, we may share your personal data, browsing habits, or other identifying information to service providers and third parties, and in return they may provide us with additional email addresses, names, physical addresses, other identifiers, browsing habits, and demographic information, which may include education level, income, investment portfolio, race, gender, personal interests you have told them about, and other personal details they infer about you. To read about your options for opting out of this data sharing, please see our <i>Opt Out or Close Your Account</i> section of this privacy statement.</p><h4 data-block-key="jwmje"><b>3.3 Categories of Other Third Parties to Which Personal Information</b> <b>May Be Sold; and the Business Purposes for such “Sales”:</b></h4><p data-block-key="076jd">If you are a California resident, some of our disclosure of personal information is considered a sale of data even if we don’t receive something of monetary value in exchange. We share personal information in this type of “sale” with the following categories of third parties:</p><ul><li data-block-key="l6uvk">Companies that serve ads, like Facebook</li><li data-block-key="qo68u">Companies that offer header bidding auctions, like Google</li><li data-block-key="4fjqb">Marketing analytics companies, like Google</li><li data-block-key="xnjni">Data enrichment firms, like Infogroup</li></ul><p data-block-key="f0q5m">We share personal information with third parties in this type of “sale” for the following business purposes:</p><ul><li data-block-key="nirei">Advertising: To deliver relevant advertising to you and to measure and optimize the effectiveness of our advertising</li><li data-block-key="sy0wl">Marketing: To keep you informed about products and services similar to the ones you subscribe to – on our site and elsewhere on the internet. We do not share information obtained via our Text Alert programs (<a href="/legal/terms-and-conditions/promotional-offers-alerts-terms-and-conditions/">here</a> and <a href="/legal/terms-and-conditions/product-alerts-terms-and-conditions/">here</a>) for marketing purposes.</li><li data-block-key="josi8">Research: To better understand our members, potential members, and visitors so we can improve our products and services, and better target how we deliver information about those products and services.</li></ul><h2 data-block-key="3ijsk"><b>4. Promotional Updates and Communications</b></h2><p data-block-key="bttd1">Where permitted by one of the legal bases above, we will use your personal information for marketing analysis and to provide you with promotional update communications (e.g., by email) about our products/services and those of our affiliates and business partners.</p><p data-block-key="81jhd">To read about your options for opting out of marketing and promotions, please see our <i>Opt Out or Close Your Account</i> section of this privacy statement.</p><h2 data-block-key="91twv"><b>5. How we store and retain your information</b></h2><p data-block-key="wndye">We store your data in databases and on storage servers in our own facilities, in colocation data centers, and in those of our contracted service providers. Your data may not be stored in the country in which you reside. We typically store our data in the U.S. If you live in the European Economic Area, please see our section for European Users.</p><p data-block-key="adou2">We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill any legal obligations we may have as well as for purposes of processing your information for the delivery of our services (for example, if you continue to subscribe to one of our email-based services, we will need your information to email the service to you). We may also retain aggregate information beyond this time for research purposes and to help us develop and improve our services. You cannot be identified from aggregate information retained or used for these purposes.</p><h2 data-block-key="se3fb"><b>6. Cookies and other technologies</b></h2><p data-block-key="ape2l">Cookies contain bits of data that websites such as ours place on your computer’s hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by collecting and storing information about your preferences on a particular site and help websites operate more efficiently. Cookies and similar technologies enable you to be remembered when using that computer or device to interact with websites and online services and can be used to manage a range of features and content as well as storing searches and presenting personalized content.</p><p data-block-key="v655l">We use our cookies:</p><p data-block-key="a6jj4">(a) With the aim of optimizing our website and improving member experience. Cookies help us estimate our audience size, determine usage patterns and help us better target content and ads based on our users’ interests.</p><p data-block-key="tebvk">(b) We also use cookies so you can, for example, access any premium content that you have subscribed to.</p><p data-block-key="9zxe3">(c) You have the option of not accepting the cookies we set. However, if you reject our cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of most of the features on our site, including subscription-based services.</p><p data-block-key="soena">Below you’ll find the types of cookies that we set when you visit Fool.com and their purpose. To help you better understand why we’re setting them, we’ve used the categories and definitions set by the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”):</p><p data-block-key="u4pdh">(a) Strictly Necessary: cookies that enable the services that you have specifically asked or paid for;</p><p data-block-key="ec83c">(b) Performance: cookies that collect information on how visitors use our site including the pages visited and most frequented as well as the sources of our traffic. They are used to help us improve how the site works;</p><p data-block-key="sw2os">(c) Functionality: cookies that help us remember the choices you have made so we can provide you with a more personalised experience; and</p><p data-block-key="7zp35">(d) Advertising: cookies used to deliver more relevant ads, and to make sure you don’t see the same adverts over and over again.</p><p data-block-key="y5zsf">In addition to the cookies set directly by our partners, there are also cookies set by third parties to help deliver and monitor their ads. Please note we neither control nor have access to those cookies, and these advertisers’ uses of cookies are subject to their own privacy policies and not our policies.</p><p data-block-key="d8us0">If you follow links from our site to theirs, you should be aware that these other sites have their own privacy and data processing practices. We have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies including its use of cookies, check that site.</p><h2 data-block-key="unosf"><b>7. Cookie Removal and More Information</b></h2><p data-block-key="ysfi6">You can always modify your browser so as not to accept cookies or to notify you when cookies are sent to it. For more information about cookies including removing any or all of your cookies, please visit <a href="http://www.allaboutcookies.org./" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.allaboutcookies.org.</a></p><p data-block-key="ifi6r">Also, if you would like to remove the Google Analytics and DoubleClick cookies, please go to <a href="http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/%20," target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/</a> respectively. You should be aware that this will affect your Google cookies on all sites, and not just ours.</p><p data-block-key="9dgyi">Some of our sites are affiliated with AdThrive, an advertising partner. They, and others, use cookies collected from a variety of sites to gather data about visitors. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: <a href="https://adssettings.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://adssettings.google.com</a>.</p><h2 data-block-key="c49iw"><b>8. Update or Correct Your Information</b></h2><p data-block-key="ksnbl">If you want to change your email address for delivery of your paid-for newsletter email subscriptions (e.g. <i>Stock Advisor</i>, or <i>ONE</i>), or you would like to change your password, you should go to your accounts page (<a href="https://www.fool.com/account/">https://www.fool.com/account/</a>).</p><h2 data-block-key="m798b"><b>9. Opt Out or Close Your Account</b></h2><ol><li data-block-key="qa0dz">Marketing & Promotions. If you would rather not hear from us by email, you can object to further marketing at any time by: (i) checking and updating your contact details within your account page (<a href="https://www.fool.com/account/">https://www.fool.com/account/</a>); (ii) selecting the "unsubscribe" link at the end of all our marketing and promotional update communications to you; or (iii) filling out <a href="https://preferences.fool.com/privacy">this form</a>.<br/><br/>Please note: If you are paying for one of our services, please note that clicking the “unsubscribe” link will not cancel your paid subscriptions, but it is likely to affect deliverability of your newsletter messages, announcements, or other product related communications. 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Where the processing of your personal information by us is based on consent, you can withdraw consent at any time by: (i) checking and updating your Data Preferences within your account page (<a href="https://www.fool.com/account/">https://www.fool.com/account/</a>);</li><li data-block-key="vrf7f">Cancel Your Subscription. If you want to cancel your subscription to one or more of our services but do not wish to remove your account entirely at this time, please contact us at <b><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cda0a8a0afa8bfbeb8bdbda2bfb98daba2a2a1e3aea2a0">[email protected]</a></b>.</li><li data-block-key="qdyig">Close Your Account Permanently. If you want to close your account - i.e., so that it cannot be logged into - please go to this form: <a href="https://preferences.fool.com/privacy">preferences.fool.com/privacy</a><b>.</b></li></ol><h2 data-block-key="3bncq"><b>10. Security and Protection of Your Information</b></h2><p data-block-key="9fcto">We are committed to protecting your personal information. All information that you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Access to paid-for areas of the site, such as our newsletter services is password-protected for your privacy and security. While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. What does all this mean? Just as in the investing world, you must protect yourself. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. If you need to change your password, please follow the steps outlined below.</p><p data-block-key="sfu4g">Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.</p><p data-block-key="rj4lt">Our site may, from time to time, contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.</p><h2 data-block-key="y4bld"><b>11. Users Aged 13 or Under</b></h2><p data-block-key="idxkm">Protecting the safety of children when they use the internet is important to us.</p><p data-block-key="adfpu">The site is intended for use only by persons who are at least 13 years of age. By using this site, you confirm to us that you meet this requirement. If you are aged 13 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to our website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.</p><p data-block-key="ju974">If you are under the age of 13 your parent or guardian must consent on your behalf where we ask for consent in relation to the use of your information.</p><h2 data-block-key="57ugk"><b>12. European Users</b></h2><p data-block-key="vx5on">For the purposes of European Economic Area data protection law, (the "Data Protection Law"), the data controller is: The Motley Fool, LLC, 2000 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ed899d82ad8b828281c38e8280">[email protected]</a>).</p><h4 data-block-key="06joy"><b>12.1 Use of Cookies</b></h4><p data-block-key="6y4pk">Our site places cookies on your device for a variety of purposes described in the Cookies and Other Technologies section of this privacy statement. Please refer to that section for more information about those cookies and how to prevent the use of cookies.</p><p data-block-key="658b3">If you have any questions about the cookies we set, please contact our Data Protection Officer at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dabeaab59abcb5b5b6f4b9b5b7">[email protected]</a>.</p><h4 data-block-key="n72g6"><b>12.2 Data Storage</b></h4><p data-block-key="5224l">The data that we collect from you is transferred to, and may be stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") that is not subject to equivalent Data Protection Law. For our purposes, the information we collect is processed and stored in the US.</p><p data-block-key="6oon3">We may transfer your personal information outside the EEA:</p><p data-block-key="9t34t">Where your information is transferred outside the EEA, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is subject to appropriate safeguards, such as relying on a recognised legal adequacy mechanism, and that it is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.</p><h4 data-block-key="k00qf"><b>12.3 European site users have certain rights under certain circumstances:</b></h4><ul><li data-block-key="36dpr">to be provided with a copy of your personal data held by us;</li><li data-block-key="34icd">to request the rectification or erasure of your personal data held by us;</li><li data-block-key="qx5go">to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information, for example);</li><li data-block-key="osjaa">to object to the further processing of your personal data, including the right to object to marketing (as mentioned in 'our promotional updates and communications' section);</li><li data-block-key="g3u9k">to request that your provided personal data be moved to a third party.</li></ul><h4 data-block-key="vtq8o"><b>12.4 Your right to withdraw consent:</b></h4><p data-block-key="3xpta">Where the processing of your personal information by us is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment. You can withdraw consent online or by contacting us. For more information on this or other options to manage your privacy rights, please see the <i>Opt Out or Close Your Account</i> section of this privacy statement.</p><p data-block-key="0zfew">You can also exercise the rights listed above at any time by filling out <a href="https://preferences.fool.com/privacy">this form</a>.</p><p data-block-key="dbaa8">If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority, (see <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.html</a>).</p><h2 data-block-key="dl1h6"><b>13. Changes to this Policy</b></h2><p data-block-key="9ck6q">We may amend this Privacy and Cookie Statement from time to time. 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