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Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by Bullion Hunters. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Bullion Hunters, we strive to make your online experience secure and satisfying.

Given that we collect certain types of information about our users, we believe it is imperative that you fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the information we gather and how we use it.

Information Bullion Hunters Gathers and Tracks

Bullion Hunters collects two types of information about users:

  1. Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These include voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, enter contests or sweepstakes, email a friend, register for collection tracking, and participate in polls and surveys.
  2. Information Bullion Hunters gathers through aggregated tracking, primarily derived from tallying page views throughout our sites. This information enables us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and helps our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Since Bullion Hunters primarily derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising, providing aggregated demographic data is essential to maintaining our service as free or low-cost for users.

Bullion Hunters Gathers User Information Through the Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Information

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users, allowing them to easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and not identifiable to any particular user. BullionHunters may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, preventing them from voting multiple times on the same question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

Surveys

BullionHunters may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We may sometimes share the aggregated demographic information from these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers, and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

Children

In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without first obtaining parental consent.

Usage tracking

Bullion Hunters tracks user traffic patterns throughout its site. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Bullion Hunters may break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Bullion Hunters may track and catalog search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and dislike based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information, although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Bullion Hunters uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above), to track use of our polling feature, and to save users time when registering for our giveaways. Additionally, our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling, and surveys.

Use of Information

Bullion Hunters may use any information voluntarily provided by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites, or better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and dislike based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in the Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users, but we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

Bullion Hunters may create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors, and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively and allows our users to receive advertisements that are relevant to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Bullion Hunters uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Sharing of Information

Bullion Hunters uses the information described above to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We may also share user information to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Security

Bullion Hunters operates a secure data network protected by industry-standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our visitors.

Opt-out Policy

We provide users with options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

  • Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

Your Consent

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Bullion Hunters. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Policy Revisions

Any changes to our privacy policy will be promptly reflected on this page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of this site following the posting of any changes to these terms constitutes your acceptance of those changes.