HotCandlestick.com, LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. HotCandlestick.com, LLC collects information from our users at several different points on our website as described below.

1) Information you explicitly provide:

In order to use some parts of this website, a user must first provide some contact information (such as name and email address). This information is not sold, rented, or given out by HotCandlestick.com, LLC to anyone.

A) We offer a member subscription service to those who voluntarily provide:

- your (or your company) name
- your (or your company) email
- user id
- credit card information supplied to our payment provider (not HotCandlestick.com, LLC) for a paid subscription

B) We offer a support form to those who voluntarily provide:

- email address

C) We offer a double opt-in mailing list form to those who voluntarily provide:

- email address

D) Occasionally we may offer contests to those who voluntarily provide:

- name
- email address
- mailing address
- demographic info

E) We offer Paid and Free advertising to those who provide:

- your (or your company) name
- your (or your company) email
- credit card information supplied to our payment provider (not HotCandlestick.com, LLC) for a paid subscription

2) Information we automatically collect:

We record IP addresses, browser types, browser versions, paged visited and site addresses that referred you to our site - all in individual and aggregate form. We may also send cookies to your computer.

1) Personal information you provide:

A) If you participate in our paid member subscription service then we will use the following information,

- name
- user id
- email address

in individual form to allow us to maintain your account.

B) If you request help using our support form, we will use the following information,

- name
- email address
- account id
- description of problem

to troubleshoot the problem you are requesting help on and to reply to your request of help by email.

C) If you participate in our double opt-in mailing list we will use the following information,

- email address

in individual and in aggregate form to allow us to maintain our mailing list.

D) If you use HotCandlestick.com subscription or advertising services, our 3rd party out-sourced vendor solutions may use the following information,

- personal name
- company name
- email address
- web site address
- mailing address
- credit references
- HTML code
- financial info

to enable us to provide the requested services, consider offering credit terms and for billing purposes. If our out-sourced vendor solutions need to contact you regarding the requested service, for example if we have trouble processing your order, this information will be used to contact you.

E) If you participate in one of our contests, we will use the following information,

- name
- email address
- mailing address
- demographic info

in aggregate and individually to notify the winners and award prizes.

2) Automatically collected information:

- We use IP address information in the aggregate and individually for administrative & security purposes. For example, to help diagnose problems with our server. Or to prevent visitors from violating our voting rules.

- We use browser types and version information in the aggregate and individually to help us design & improve our site. For example, if we noticed many visitors using certain brand browsers, we would be able to redesign parts of our site so that web pages are displayed properly for those browsers.

- We use pages visited in the aggregate and individually to determine what pages are the most popular among our visitors. This information helps us provide recommendations as to what pages our visitors may find valuable.

- We use sites addresses that referred you to our site in aggregate and individually to learn what sites have linked to us. This helps us determine where the majority of our traffic is coming from (search engines, directories, guides, partners, reviews, etc. ...).

- We may use a feature of your browser to set a "cookie" on your computer. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. In most cases, once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates.

This allows us to measure and report aggregate information to advertisers such as the number of people who see their ad (reach) and the number of times people see their ad (frequency). It also allows us to avoid delivering the same ad too many times. If for some reason you would rather not take advantage of the benefits made possible with cookies, most browsers allow you to reject cookies or to choose which cookies to accept.

This site, HotCandlestick.com currently utilizes cookies to allow users to store ticker symbols for quick reference.