Privacy Policy

Before It’s News, a service of Little Blue Marble, LLC (B-I-N) takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how B-I-N treats personal information that B-I-N collects and receives, including information related to your past use of B-I-N products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that B-I-N does not own or control, or to people that B-I-N does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

• B-I-N collects personal information when you register with B-I-N, when you use B-I-N products or services, when you visit B-I-N pages or the pages of certain B-I-N partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. B-I-N may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

• When you register we may ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with B-I-N and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

• B-I-N collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

• B-I-N automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, B-I-N cookie information, and the page you request.

• B-I-N may use 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 B-I-N, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a B-I-N Family Account to obtain parental permission.

• B-I-N will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission.

• B-I-N 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

• B-I-N 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 B-I-N under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help B-I-N communicate with you about offers from B-I-N 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 B-I-N to collect and use their child’s information without consenting to B-I-N 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 B-I-N’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

• We transfer information about you if B-I-N is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, B-I-N will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

• B-I-N may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria – for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

• B-I-N does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

• B-I-N advertisers may include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

Cookies

• B-I-N may set and access B-I-N cookies on your computer.

• B-I-N 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 B-I-N’s cookies.

• B-I-N may use web beacons to access B-I-N cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with B-I-N products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

• You can edit your B-I-N Account Information at any time.

• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the B-I-N service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the B-I-N Newsletter, that are considered part of your B-I-N account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

• You can delete your B-I-N account by by sending an email to [email protected].

Children

• If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child’s information, parents enrolled in B-I-N Family Accounts can delete their child’s account by signing into that child’s account and then visiting our Account Deletion page.

Confidentiality and Security

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

• To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security at B-I-N.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• B-I-N may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your B-I-N account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions

• If you have questions or suggestions, please use our Contact form or you can contact us at:

Before It’s News

c/o Little Blue Marble, LLC

Privacy Policy Issues

775 E. Blithedale Ave. #362

Mill Valley, CA  94941

(775) 750-2009

Effective Date: February 8, 2009