The WorldShark.com™ Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

Information Collection and Use

General

• WorldShark.com™ collects personal information when you register with WorldShark.com™, when you use WorldShark.com™ products or services, when you visit WorldShark.com™ pages or the pages of certain WorldShark.com™ partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. WorldShark.com™ may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with WorldShark.com™ and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• WorldShark.com™ automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address , WorldShark.com™ cookie information, and the page you request.
• WorldShark.com™ uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
  
  

Children

• When a child under age 13 attempts to register with WorldShark.com™, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a WorldShark.com™ Family Account to obtain parental permission.
• WorldShark.com™ will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
• WorldShark.com™ does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

WorldShark.com™ does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with WorldShark.com™ under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help WorldShark.com™ communicate with you about offers from WorldShark.com™ and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing WorldShark.com™ to collect and use their child's information without consenting to WorldShark.com™ sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of WorldShark.com™'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if WorldShark.com™ is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, WorldShark.com™ will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

• WorldShark.com™ may set and access WorldShark.com™ cookies on your computer.
• WorldShark.com™ may let other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to WorldShark.com™'s cookies.

Confidentiality and Security