Privacy

Fedsmill, LLC. is committed to our users’ privacy. We handle information submitted to us from our users with care. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information that Fedsmill.com (“Website,” “Fedsmill,” or “FS”) may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Site, including any versions optimized for viewing on a wireless or tablet service, any FS social media sites, as well as any communications via phone, fax or FS  e-mail addresses. This policy also outlines how the information collected by FS or provided by you, including your personal data, may be used.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
  • Any third party that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. Your visit to this Website is subject to this privacy policy, the site’s Terms of Use, and any other posted policies. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed an acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. This policy and the operation of the Website are intended to comply with applicable U.S. laws and regulations and any applicable provision will be applied in a manner that complies with the applicable law or regulation.

Intended Website Use

Fedmill.com is an informational Website intended for adults (age 18 and over). This site is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, if you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this site or through any of its features/register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comments features of this site or provide any information about yourself to us. If you believe a child under 18 has provided, or we have collected, their personal data, please at Fedsmill@gmail.com.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information.  For example, if you are a California user, you have certain rights with respect to the collection, use, transfer, and processing of your “Personal Information,” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).  We reserve the right to limit these rights where permitted under applicable law, including where your identity cannot be reasonably verified or to the extent your rights adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.  To exercise any of the rights below, please contact us via the contact information below.  Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.

The site is intended for users located in the United States. We do not intentionally market, advertise, or offer goods or services to users located outside the United States. Any users located within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) are prohibited from using our Platform.  For avoidance of doubt, Fedsmill Platforms are not intended for users located within the EEA.

Do not provide your information unless you consent to the application of U.S. and Florida privacy law and the use and disclosure of your information consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect From Users

The only information we collect from and about users of our Website would be their e-mail address. To our knowledge no other information is collected, retained, or used by Fedsmill.

How We Collect User Information

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Provided by a colleague of yours.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us: 

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our news services, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Your search queries on the Website.

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We reserve the right to remove any comment or User Contribution at any time and with or without reason, in our sole discretion.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies: 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies).A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Flash Cookies.Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
  • Web Beacons.Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

‘Do Not Track’ signals

You can set your Do Not Track preferences, within your browser, to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. Our Website does not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting your browser’s preferences or settings page (depending on the browser).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Additionally, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information or services that you request from us.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any services we offer or provide though it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We will not share your personal information with any advertiser or third party, absent an unintentional error or a third party’s unauthorized invasion of Fedsmill.

If you choose to post content on our website (for instance: “comment on a story”), we may freely disclose that content to others, and may also freely disclose any other information you have provided to us, other than personally identifiable information. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to a legal process–for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose personally identifiable information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company, or if our assets are acquired by another entity. Agents and contractors of Fedsmill who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using personally identifiable information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.

Direct Marketing

We want to communicate with you via email correspondence only if you want to hear from us. If for any reason you no longer want to receive email messages from this site, you can opt-out at any time by following the opt-out (unsubscribe) instructions below or by clicking the unsubscribe link included on our web site.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.
  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Fedsmill LLC., Website Users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Fedsmill LLC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Fedsmill, LLC. about our Website Users are among the assets transferred.

 

Sale of Your Information

We do not sell your personal information.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request by emailing us at Fedsmill@gmail.com.

How We Protect Your Information

We take care to safeguard the information our users entrust us with and to that end we have implemented the following measures to better protect personal information:

  • we use SSL or other secure connection technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks;
  • maintain up-to-date software and safeguards;
  • regular due diligence of vendors;
  • we destroy personal information that we no longer need;
  • documented security policies and procedures;
  • limit personal information that we collect to strictly necessary only;

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Access to & Rectification of Personal Information

You may also send us an email to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may revise this policy at any time with or without notice. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Notice on this page. The date this privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at Fedsmill@gmail.com or write us at FEDSMILL c/o FF, P. O. Box 341, Mt. Vernon, VA 22121-0341.