2. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
To serve you better and understand your needs and interests, Dividend Cake collects, exports, and uses personal information with adequate notice and consent, along with required filings with data protection authorities, when applicable. For example, when you order products or services, request information, subscribe to marketing or support materials, register yourself or your Dividend Cake products, enter contests or participate in surveys, we will ask you to provide personal information to complete these transactions. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include contact information such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address; financial information such as your credit card number; and other unique information such as user IDs and passwords, billing and transaction information, product and service preferences, contact preferences, educational and employment background, and job interest data.
If you post, comment or share personal information, including photographs, to any public forum on an Dividend Cake site, social network, blog, or other such forum, please be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, viewed, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to contact you, send you unsolicited messages, or for purposes that neither you nor Dividend Cake have control over. Dividend Cake is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums.
In addition to the information you provide, Dividend Cake may also collect information during your visit to a Dividend Cake website, or a website “powered by” another company on behalf of Dividend Cake, through our Automatic Data Collection Tools such Adsense, which include cookies. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on user’s prior visits to the Dividend Cake website. These tools collect certain traffic information that your browser sends to a website, such as your browser type and language, access times, and the address of the website from which you arrived . They may also collect information about your Internet Protocol (IP) address, click stream behavior (i.e. the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with Dividend Cake websites or “powered by” websites) and product information. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web, allowing Web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers use IP addresses to communicate on the Internet, allowing users to browse and shop. To learn more, read How Dividend Cake uses automatic data collection tools.
Dividend Cake also collects information from commercially available sources that it deems credible. Such information may include your name, address, email address and demographic data. The information Dividend Cake collects from its commercial sources may be used along with the information Dividend Cake collects when you visit Dividend Cake’s websites. For example, Dividend Cake may compare the geographic information acquired from commercial sources with the IP address collected by Automatic Data Collection Tools to derive your general geographic area.