Costwise Advisors, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Costwise Advisors, LLC site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Costwise Advisors, LLC site, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Costwise Advisors, LLC collects personally identifiable information, such as your email
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Costwise Advisors, LLC also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Costwise Advisors, LLC. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This
information is used by Costwise Advisors, LLC for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Costwise Advisors, LLC site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Costwise Advisors, LLC public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Costwise Advisors, LLC
does not read any of your private online communications.
Costwise Advisors, LLC encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Costwise Advisors, LLC so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Costwise Advisors, LLC is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Costwise Advisors, LLC
and Costwise Advisors, LLC family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Costwise Advisors, LLC collects and uses your personal information to operate the Costwise Advisors, LLC
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Costwise Advisors, LLC also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Costwise Advisors, LLC and its affiliates. Costwise Advisors, LLC may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Costwise Advisors, LLC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Costwise Advisors, LLC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Costwise Advisors, LLC
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send
you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Costwise Advisors, LLC, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Costwise Advisors, LLC does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Costwise Advisors, LLC keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Costwise Advisors, LLC, in order to determine what Costwise Advisors, LLC services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Costwise Advisors, LLC to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Costwise Advisors, LLC Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Costwise Advisors, LLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Costwise Advisors, LLC; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Costwise Advisors, LLC, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Costwise Advisors, LLC Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page
server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Costwise Advisors, LLC pages, or
register with Costwise Advisors, LLC site or services, a cookie helps Costwise Advisors, LLC
to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses,
and so on. When you return to the same Costwise Advisors, LLC Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Costwise Advisors, LLC
features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Costwise Advisors, LLC services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Costwise Advisors, LLC secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Costwise Advisors, LLC secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Costwise Advisors, LLC will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Costwise Advisors, LLC encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Costwise Advisors, LLC is protecting your
information.