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FORUMS
Certain areas of this American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. Web Site enable you to access online forums where you can post messages and read messages posted by other users (the "Forums"). Some of the Forums topics are selected by American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. and others are created by users. American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. does not endorse, and specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability for, any content posted on the Forums, whether the topic is first selected by American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. or a user. The Forums are a free service provided to users of American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc.. By posting a message in the Forums, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions. If you do not want to be bound by these terms, then do not use the Forums.
You agree to be fully responsible for your own postings and agree to access and use the Forums at your own risk on an as-is basis. While American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. has no obligation to monitor the Forums, it may, from time to time, monitor the Forums to determine whether postings comply with these Terms of Use, to guide the discussion on the Forums, or for other reasons. American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. cannot and does not guarantee that it will post or continue to post every message or other content you or other users submit to the Forum. Also, American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. reserves the right to edit or abridge postings for any reason and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc.' sole discretion.
You must abide by the following rules in connection with your use of the Forums:
. You agree to post only messages that relate to the subject matter of the Forum.
. You agree not to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others.
. You agree not to impersonate any person or entity, including, for example, a American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. employee or officer, a forum leader, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
. You agree not to post messages that contain material that is inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, or indecent. This includes any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. You agree to give attribution to others when you quote or paraphrase materials owned by others, and to limit your quotations to no more than 50 words.
. You agree not to upload files, or cause users to upload files, that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may adversely affect the operation of another's computer.
. You agree not to advertise or promote any goods or services in the Forums. This includes, among other things, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", and "pyramid schemes."
. You agree not to conduct contests or distribute chain letters through the Forums.
. You agree not to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law in connection with your use of the Forums. This includes, among other things, any securities law or regulation.
By posting a message, uploading a file, or engaging in any other form of communication through a Forum, you are granting American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. a perpetual, royalty-free and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, create derivative works from, transfer, and sell any such messages, files or communications.
You agree to indemnify and hold American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. and its affiliates and their respective, officers, directors and employees harmless from any claims, damages, losses or costs (including reasonable attorney's fees) that arise out of any of your postings and any material contained therein.
What to do if you believe a posting violates these Terms of Use: If you believe that a posting in a Forum violates these Terms of Use, we encourage you to contact American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. by sending an email using support@Amfp.net that identifies the applicable posting and the screen identity of the person who made the posting. American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. cannot guarantee that any action will be taken as a result of your email.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
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If you wish to make purchases from an area of this American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. Web Site or a "co-branded" web site operated by a person other than American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. (a "Co-Branded Site"), you may be asked by the merchant or operator of the Co-Branded Site or other person from whom you are making the purchase to supply certain information, including credit card, debit card, or other payment mechanism information. You agree not to hold American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such dealings with any Co-Branded Site or merchant or operator of the Co-Branded Site or other person from whom you are making the purchase. You agree that all information you provide in connection with such purchase will be accurate, complete and current. You agree to pay all charges incurred by users of your credit card, debit card, or other payment mechanism at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. You also will pay any applicable taxes, if any, relating to any purchases you make. Each Co-Branded Site will contain a description of the site's privacy policy regarding any personal identifying information you may be required to disclose as part of the purchase.
MISCELLANEOUS LEGAL TERMS
This Agreement is personal to you, and you may not assign your rights or obligations to anyone. If any provision in this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. This Agreement, your rights and obligations, and all actions contemplated by this agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of North Carolina, as if the Agreement was a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within the State of North Carolina.
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General
Purpose of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. (the company that created, runs and owns Amfp.net) treats the personally identifiable information that is collected about you when you visit the Amfp.net web site. This policy also describes our treatment of personally identifiable information about you that our business partners may share with us.
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
"Personally identifiable information" is information that we can use to identify you as an individual. Personally identifiable information includes your name, address, telephone number and any other information that is connected with your identity.
Information This Privacy Policy Does Not Apply to
This privacy policy does not apply to information collected about you by anyone except American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. Any information you provide when you visit web sites other than Amfp.net or when you purchase any products or services that may be offered or advertised on Amfp.net by companies other than American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. is subject to the privacy policies of the third party organizations who run and/or own these web sites.
Information We Collect
Non-Registered Users
Certain content and tools on the Amfp.net web site, such as news articles, delayed stock quotes and basic worksheets and calculators, are available to all users without registration. American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. does not collect any personally identifiable information from you when you visit these areas of the Amfp.net web site.
Registered Users
In order to access some of the more specialized features of the Amfp.net web site, such as real time stock quotes and company watch lists, you must be a registered Amfp.net web site user. When you register with Amfp.net, we collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, email address, city, state and zip code, as well as other information, such as your gender, age, occupation, personal interests and similar information.
In addition, when you use certain specialized features offered to registered Amfp.net web site users, Amfp.net may collect additional information about you, such as credit card information, stock and fund information, financial information, employment information and other personally identifiable information. For example, if you create a personalized portfolio, you will need to provide stock or fund ticker symbols and financial information relating to the stocks or funds you wish to track. Also, if you register for a fee-based premium service, such as American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. Select or MapStation, American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. may collect credit card information, as well as, certain additional information required by the NYSE and Nasdaq Exchanges.
Promotions and Surveys
Contests, sweepstakes, other promotions or surveys may be offered on the Amfp.net web site. In conjunction with such promotions or surveys, we may ask Amfp.net participants for personally identifiable information related to the topic of the survey, entry in the promotion, prize notification or fulfillment. For example, we may ask entrants in a Amfp.net sweepstakes for their mailing address, telephone number, and other information that may be used to pick and notify winners.
Information From Third Party Sources
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. may on occasion combine information we receive online with information we have obtained through third party sources to enhance our ability to market those products or services that may be of interest to you.
Web Site Usage Information
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. automatically collects IP addresses and web site usage information from you when you visit the Amfp.net web site. This information helps us evaluate how our users navigate and use our web site.
Use of Information
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. uses personally identifiable information collected from you for the following general purposes:
- to fulfill your requests for specific products and services;
- to customize the advertising and content you see;
- to improve the design and content of our site;
. to contact you about special offers, products or services that may be of interest to you;
- to enter you in promotions at your specific request; and
- to provide you with customer service.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. will not sell, share or otherwise disclose any personally identifiable information about our current or former web site users to third party companies or individuals, except as permitted or required by law.
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. may share or disclose personally identifiable information about you to other companies or individuals when:
- we have your consent to share the information;
- we utilize third party service providers to provide products, services or functions on our behalf (such as sending emails or processing credit cards), and require these service providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information and not to use your personally identifiable information for any reason except to carry out the purpose(s) for which we hired them;
- we need to protect our legal rights (for example, if we are trying to collect money you owe us or we are trying to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreement with you);
- we must comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal or regulatory process; or
- in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise) of all or a portion of the Amfp.net business.
Aggregate information is information that we (or third party service providers on our behalf) collect about Amfp.net web site users on an anonymous basis. We may share aggregate demographic and usage information with our prospective and actual business partners, advertisers and other third parties. Cookies
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. (or third party service providers on our behalf) may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data (often including a unique identifier), that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Amfp.net uses cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. For example, we may use cookies to identify you as a registered user, personalize your experience at our site, save your password in password-protected areas, and display relevant content, products, services and advertising. To the extent that American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. utilizes third party service providers to set and access cookies on the computer of our web site users on behalf of American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc., American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. requires such service providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality of the information collected and not to use such information for any reason except to carry out the purpose(s) for which we hired them.
We use reputable third parties to present or serve some or all of the advertisements on our web site. These third party network advertisers may set and access their own cookies on your computer. The use of cookies by third parties is subject to such third party's own privacy policies. For more information on the collection of information by third party network advertisers click here.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to reject cookies. If you set your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features offered through our web site.
Security
Your Amfp.net registration information is password-protected for your privacy and security. The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited access servers. We maintain (directly and through our agents) physical, electronic and procedural security safeguards to protect your personally identifiable information.
Review and Correction
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. offers registered users the online ability to correct or update information that we have collected during the registration process. This can be done by visiting the customer service section of Amfp.net.
Children
Due to the financial nature of our business, our web site is not designed to appeal to children under the age of 13. American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. does not knowingly solicit any information from children nor do we knowingly market or otherwise target the Amfp.net web site or its products or services to children. If you are under the age of 13, please do not attempt to use or register on our web site.
Transfer to U.S.
If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By registering with Amfp.net, you consent to this transfer
Changes to Privacy Policy and Notice
American Mutual Financial Planning, Inc. may change this policy from time to time.
YOU HEREBY AGREE TO ACCEPT NOTICES OF ANY CHANGE MADE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND ANY APPLICABLE PERIODIC NOTICES REGARDING THIS PRIVACY POLICY BY THE POSTING OF SUCH PRIVACY POLICY ON OUR WEB SITE.
This policy was last updated on September 8, 2003
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