Quick Non-Legalese Version
The stuff in the full legalese version below is standard boilerplate stuff. Some other personal finance blogger wrote it around 2007 or so and gave me permission to use it with some minor edits.
- I have to tell you that I’m not a financial professional to protect myself legally. I could go out and get a bunch of licenses to give financial advice and I’ve thought about doing so, but then what I can write about would be legally restricted as well.
- While I do give myself the ability to edit user comments, I’ve rarely used it… probably in less than 1 in a thousand cases. Typically it only happens when someone has a pretty good comment, but then ends with something like: “Here’s my [link to a get rich quick scheme].” I openly allow for any number of dissenting opinions (see the comments on my MonaVie article), but in the end, I have to include this clause.
- The advertising that I use, Google AdSense, and a number of other advertisers that I use are used by millions of sites. These advertisers require that I disclose that cookies can be used by these advertising systems. I do not get access to any of this information and can’t see any of your personal preferences, things you like, or sites you previously visited. I can get the general location of my visitors such as which country they live in, but with over 4 million visitors, chances are that every country is covered by now. You are essentially anonymous to me.
- I will never ask for, and you should never tell me any a password of any kind.
- If you leave a comment or subscribe to receive emails, I will never sell it. I hate spam as much as you do. In fact if you leave a comment with your email address as part of the text that another user can see, I edit your comment to take out the email address so nefarious spam bots scouring my site won’t pick up your email address.
That’s pretty much it. The overriding rule here is that I don’t collect much of your information myself and I make none of it available to others. You’ll find that the legalese below is essentially the same as millions of other websites and many personal finance blogs.
Full Legalese Version
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Privacy Policy:
The privacy of our visitors to LazyManAndMoney.com is important to us.
At Lazy Man and Money, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit Lazy Man and Money, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on Lazy Man and Money to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites). These advertisers may also use interest-based advertising which enables advertisers to reach users based on their interests (e.g. ‘sports enthusiasts’), and allows them to show ads based on a user’s previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser websites.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
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In addition to the advertising information above, our advertising partner CafeMedia would like you to know:
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Other information collected by third-parties
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Email Addresses
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Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it, and that technology provider may also contact you from time to time.
If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.
Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents
If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:
(i) access your personal data
(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data
(iii) the right to have us delete your personal data
(iv) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and
(v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused
If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us addressed to the following:
Lazy Man and Money
P.O. Box 4814
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Lazy Man and Money
P.O. Box 4814
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