Privacy

This privacy statement is applicable to The Pinnacle Group. The  Pinnacle Group does not collect personally identifiable information  about individuals except when such individuals specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. For example, such personally  identifiable information may be gathered from a contest or sweepstakes  registration, the registration process for subscription sites or  services and in connection with content submissions, community postings  (e.g., chat and bulletin boards), suggestions, voting/polling activities and transactional areas. Personally identifiable information on  individual users will not be sold or otherwise transferred to  unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time  of collection. At such points of collection, the user will have the  opportunity to indicate whether he or she would like to “opt out” of  receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings from The Pinnacle Group and/or any third  parties. Further, notwithstanding any “opt out” of promotional  information by the user, The Pinnacle Group reserves the right to  contact a subscriber regarding account status, changes to the subscriber agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or  the information collected. The Pinnacle Group reserves the right to  perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in  order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site  and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of  users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners. The Pinnacle Group will provide only aggregated data from these  analyses to third parties. Also, users should be aware that The Pinnacle Group may sometimes permit third parties to offer subscription and/or  registration-based services through a The Pinnacle Group site. The  Pinnacle Group is not responsible for any actions or policies of such  third parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of  such party when providing personally identifiable information.

Additionally, users should be aware that when they voluntarily  disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail  address) on the bulletin boards or in the chat areas of the The Pinnacle Group sites, that information, along with any substantive information  disclosed in the user’s communication, can be collected and correlated  and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from  other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control  of The Pinnacle Group.

Upon request, The Pinnacle Group will allow any user to “opt out” of  further promotional contacts at any time. Additionally upon request, The Pinnacle Group will use reasonable efforts to allow users to  update/correct personal information previously submitted which the user  states is erroneous to the extent such activities will not compromise  privacy or security interests. Also, upon a user’s request, The Pinnacle Group will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete  the user and his or her personal information from its database; however, it may be impossible to delete a user’s entry without some residual  information because of backups and records of deletions. The foregoing  policies are effective as of June 16, 1999. The Pinnacle Group reserves  the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the  existence of a new privacy statement. This statement and the policies  outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.