TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Privacy Statement
(last updated: July 2004)

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED is committed to protecting your privacy. This TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on TRADERS ILLUSTRATED sites and services. Please read the TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Privacy Statement below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular TRADERS ILLUSTRATED sites and services that you may use.

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED is a general audience web site, intended for experienced traders. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

At some sites, TRADERS ILLUSTRATED collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. TRADERS ILLUSTRATED may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

Some TRADERS ILLUSTRATED services, such as TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Chat and TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Groups, request that you create a social nickname, which is the name you will be known by to others in those public places. You may select a different social nickname at any time. You can also choose to create an optional public profile, containing information about yourself - such as your hobbies and interests. Any information you choose to enter in your public profile will be visible to other users of TRADERS ILLUSTRATED sites and services; and when you interact with other users (for example, sending an TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Hotmail message to another TRADERS ILLUSTRATED email account or interacting in an TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Chat room), a link to your public profile may be displayed. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information through TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Chats, TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Groups, or other public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others. TRADERS ILLUSTRATED cautions you against providing personal information to strangers online, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes.

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED keeps track of the pages our customers visit within TRADERS ILLUSTRATED, in order to determine what TRADERS ILLUSTRATED sites and services are the most popular.

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.

Certain TRADERS ILLUSTRATED services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both TRADERS ILLUSTRATED and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.

Use of your Personal Information

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate TRADERS ILLUSTRATED and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information TRADERS ILLUSTRATED has collected. TRADERS ILLUSTRATED does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from its affiliates. TRADERS ILLUSTRATED may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED may, from time to time, sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. TRADERS ILLUSTRATED 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 personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED may access and/or disclose your personal information 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 the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of TRADERS ILLUSTRATED family of Web sites; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of TRADERS ILLUSTRATED services or members of the public.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which TRADERS ILLUSTRATED or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. TRADERS ILLUSTRATED abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Control of your Personal Information

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You may go to the TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Communications Preferences page to proactively make choices about the use and sharing of your personal information. You may choose not to receive marketing material from TRADERS ILLUSTRATED or on behalf of external third party business partners. You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from TRADERS ILLUSTRATED by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. The instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

You may subscribe and unsubscribe to TRADERS ILLUSTRATED Newsletters by going to newsletters.Traders Illustrated.com. In addition, each TRADERS ILLUSTRATED newsletter you receive will have instructions on how to unsubscribe prominently mentioned in it.

Security of your Personal Information

TRADERS ILLUSTRATED is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.