Privacy Policy

Tungsten Direct takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

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What This Privacy Policy Covers

  • This policy covers how Tungsten Direct treats personal information that Tungsten Direct collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Tungsten Direct products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Tungsten Direct does not own or control, or to people that Tungsten Direct does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

  • Tungsten Direct collects personal information when you register with Tungsten Direct, when you use Tungsten Direct products or services, when you visit Tungsten Direct pages or the pages of certain Tungsten Direct partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Tungsten Direct may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we might also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. When you register with Tungsten Direct and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
  • Tungsten Direct collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
  • Tungsten Direct automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, Tungsten Direct cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.
  • Tungsten Direct uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

  • Tungsten Direct does not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
  • Tungsten Direct does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • Tungsten Direct does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Tungsten Direct under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Tungsten Direct communicate with you about offers from Tungsten Direct and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
    • We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing Tungsten Direct to collect and use their child's information without consenting to Tungsten Direct sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes.
    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
    • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Tungsten Direct's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • We transfer information about you if Tungsten Direct is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Tungsten Direct will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • Tungsten Direct displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria‚Äîfor example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
    • Tungsten Direct does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
    • Tungsten Direct advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

Cookies

  • Tungsten Direct may set and access Tungsten Direct cookies on your computer.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

  • You can edit your Tungsten Direct Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
  • New categories of marketing communications might be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
  • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Tungsten Direct service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Tungsten Direct Newsletter, that are considered part of your Tungsten Direct account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.

Confidentiality and Security

  • We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • Tungsten Direct may update this policy from time to time. Tungsten Direct reserves the right to make changes to the policies contained herein without notice.

Questions and Suggestions

  • If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at:
Tungsten Direct Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
PO Box 496
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 
sales at infinitytungsten dot com