Date of Last Revision: November 28, 2008

Dustme Principles

Dustme was created to provide a place to where people can inform themselves on topics related to finance and economics. Dustme also provides a discussion forum when people can discuss content related to the site.

1. On this site you will have control over your personal information.
You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join. User Page page.

2. You will have access to the information others want to share.
There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want to know what relates to you, your friends, and people around you. We want to help you easily get that information.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us at Contact.

The Information We Collect

When you visit Dustme you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with Dustme, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter Dustme, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Dustme visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to Dustme. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use Dustme, you may set up your personal profile, send messages, perform searches and queries, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.

You post User Content (as defined in the Dustme Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on Dustme is a violation of the Dustme Terms of Service and should be reported to us Contact .

By using Dustme, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Use of Information Obtained by Dustme

When you register with Dustme, you create your own profile. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people that are members of the site. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Dustme that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by Dustme primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information.

Profile information you submit to Dustme will be available to users of Dustme who are registered to the site. Your name, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Dustme network and those limited pieces of information will not be made available to third party search engines.

Dustme may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service.

Dustme reserves the right to send you notices about your account.

Dustme may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you Dustme.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

Dustme is about sharing information with others. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:

• We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Dustme service or using the Dustme name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
• We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through on-site offers.
• If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Dustme business, or individual business units owned by Dustme LLC., were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, this information may become publicly available.

Links

Dustme may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Dustme.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on Dustme are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Dustme does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Dustme unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Dustme and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on Dustme is readily available through the profile editing tools. Dustme users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Dustme account may do so by contacting us Contact. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Dustme.

Security

Dustme takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of Dustme Web Site, please contact us at Contact

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of Dustme, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at Contact.