Privacy and Cookie Policy

• ServiceService is the stockhouse.com website operated by Stockhouse Publishing Ltd.
• Personal DataPersonal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
• Usage DataUsage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• CookiesCookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
• Data ControllerData Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.
  For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
• Data Processors (or Service Providers)Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
  We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
• Data Subject (or User)Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Credit card number
• Cookies and Usage Data

With your permission we may use your Personal Data to contact you with email newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookie Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an pseudonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you will not be able to use our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies.We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies.We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies.We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
• Advertising Cookies.Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• To monitor the usage of our Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
• For payment processing purposes
• To comply with the law

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Canada and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Aggregate information

We do sell aggregate information. For example, we might tell an advertiser that there are 120,000 registered users in a given city, but we will not tell them that John Smith is one of them, nor will we give them his e-mail address without his express consent. We may also use this aggregated information to help the advertisers reach the kind of audience they want. They may give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, gold investors in a certain area code).

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. (or people working on our behalf under contracts and confidentiality agreements) would then take the advertisement and display it to users who meet those criteria. We may also disclose aggregate information (for example, information showing that 35 million of our readers clicked on a particular web advertising banner last month) in order to report on our services to partners, advertisers, and other third parties and the public.

With specific consent

We may disclose personal information in some other limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when we collect the information and gain your express consent, such as in the rules of a contest or a new service. For example, if we are going to give personal information to a contest sponsor, we will disclose it when you sign up for the contest, so that you can decide if you want to enter.

Business Transaction

If Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Stockhouse Publishing Ltd.
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser however this selection will not change how we interact with your browser. To change your Privacy settings with our Service please review the section of this policy called ‘How to change your cookie preferences’.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
• The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

If you want to correct or change information we have about you, please do so by signing into your membership account and selecting your member name on the top right side of the page and choosing the options to edit your info.

To change your email preferences simply select the link in every email we send.

To cancel your account, please contact us using the web form located here:
https://support.stockhouse.com/anonymous_requests/new

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Advertising

We use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.

Adzerk

Adzerk is an advertising service provided that we use to manage our advertising. For more information about Adzerk, please visit:

Adzerk Privacy Policy: https://dev.adzerk.com/docs/privacy-policy-ad-server
Adzerk Cookie Policy: https://dev.adzerk.com/docs/cookies-set-by-adzerk

Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet.

You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Other

Through our advertising network these third party vendors use cookies to serve ads on our Service. This allows them and their partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet.

To learn more about each ad provider visit their website at the following links:

http://1rx.io
http://33across.com
http://adform.com
http://adtech.com
http://advertising.com
http://adyoulike.com
http://amazon.com
http://Andbeyond.media
http://aolcloud.net
http://appnexus.com
http://atemda.com
http://bidfluence.com
http://bidtellect.com
http://brightcom.com
http://carambo.la
http://clearpier.com
http://contextweb.com
http://conversantmedia.com
http://criteo.com
http://districtm.io
http://distroscale.com
http://emxdgt.com
http://exponential.com
http://featureforward.com
http://firstimpression.io
http://freewheel.tv
http://fyber.com
http://google.com
http://gumgum.com
http://indexexchange.com
http://inner-active.com
http://Insticator.com
http://jadserve.postrelease.com
http://kixer.com
http://komoona.com
http://lijit.com
http://lkqd.com
http://lkqd.net
http://media.net
http://mediabong.com
http://memevideoad.com
http://my6sense.com
http://nativeads.com
http://openx.com
http://outbrain.com
http://phenqitaliane.com
http://positivemobile.com
http://pubmatic.com
http://pulsepoint.com
http://revcontent.com
http://rhythmone.com
http://rubiconproject.com
http://sekindo.com
http://sharethrough.com
http://smaato.com
http://smartadserver.com
http://sonobi.com
http://sovrn.com
http://spotx.tv
http://spotxchange.com
http://synacor.com
http://taboola.com
http://teads.tv
http://teads.tv 9227
http://tremorhub.com
http://tribalfusion.com
http://vertoz.com
http://vidoplay.com
http://whitwise.com
http://x.fidelity-media.com
http://yldbt.com

Behavioral Remarketing

Stockhouse Publishing Ltd. uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

Google AdWords

Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Kickfire

Our website contains a LIVE Leads™ tag from KickFire®. This tag will track activity on the stockhouse.com website.

KickFire’s LIVE Leads technology is not connected to any combination of personally identifiable information (“PII”), cookie identifiers, or identification tags that when combined with other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them. The IP Address Intelligence used by KickFire’s LIVE Leads TWIN Caching™ technology removes those traces of PII and focuses at the firmographic level. More information can be found at http://id.kickfire.com/privacy-policy

Paymemts

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

• PayPal or BraintreeTheir Privacy Policy can be viewed at
  https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
• ElavonTheir Privacy Policy can be viewed at
  https://www.elavon.com/privacy-pledge.html

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.