Privacy Policy
HedgeFollow is committed to your privacy and giving you maximum transparency about how we use your data. This page details how we use any data collected from our users.Data Collection
HedgeFollow tries to minimize the collection of personal information from our users. You are not required to use your real name or primary email to sign up. In fact, we encourage you to use a nickname and secondary email for maximum protection of your privacy.When you login for the first time, we collect the supplied name, email, and profile photo, and use those to provide a personalized login experience. This information is stored/updated as long as you continuously login to HedgeFollow.
When you subscribe to one of our plans, we again collect your name and email, and use those for verification purposes, to link your account to your payment.
You can delete this information anytime by submitting a request from the contact us form. We respond promptly to such requests.
Another place we sometimes receive private personal information is when you contact us and provide your name/email in the form. You are not required to provide your real name and primary email address in the contact form. Again, we encourage you to use an alias and a temporary email for maximum protection of your privacy.
The names of fund managers/leaders listed on fund pages are public information, obtained from various public resources.
HedgeFollow does collect non-personal information from users, mainly data about the usage of the site, user activity, user trends, etc. We do this mainly to understand how we can improve our site and services, and better serve our users. For example, if many users are searching for a hedge fund that we do not track, we will try to add it to our tracked funds.
Another reason we collect non-personal information is to protect our servers from malicious users. For example, some users may launch attacks on our servers, or may run automated bots on our site. We use non-personal information to detect and ban these users.
Cookies
Most sites use "cookies" to track usage data by their users and better serve them. A cookie is a small file that most browsers (like Chrome, Firefox, etc) automatically accept when you visit a website. This file allows the website to understand how you're interacting with the site, for example what pages are you visiting.HedgeFollow uses cookies to better understand how people are using the website and how we can improve it. Many of the features on the website require cookies to work properly. You can edit the options in your browser to stop accepting any cookies, and to delete all cookies that are currently stored. However, this will cause many of the website features to stop working properly.
Third Party Advertisers
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a "device") by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, "Tags") may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser's cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser's cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor's referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance's AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.