Privacy Policy

MineralRightsForum.com 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 MineralRightsForum.com treats personal information that MineralRightsForum.com collects and receives.

• Information Sharing and Customer Choice
• Information Collection and Use
• Confidentiality and Security
• Changes to Privacy Policy

Information Sharing and Customer Choice

MineralRightsForum.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies.

HOWEVER, MineralRightsForum.com allows search engines such as Google to index its contents. This means that any information submitted via the forums is subject to public view. Search engines are a large part of how people find MineralRightsForum.com, and are thus a crucial factor in what makes MineralRightsForum.com valuable.  We consider all contact information within forum posts as spam.  Reference our User Policy. Any information you wish to communicate with another member privately can be transmitted using the private message function. The default privacy settings on MineralRightsForum.com allow your blog posts and profile to be publicly viewable. To adjust your privacy settings, go here.

MineralRightsForum.com may from time to time, communicate with you regarding our products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. MineralRightsForum.com may send special offers and updates, newsletters, and service-related announcements. Only MineralRightsForum.com will send you these communications. We will provide you clear instructions on how to opt-out. Generally, you may not opt-out of service-related announcements which are not promotional in nature.

Information Collection and Use

MineralRightsForum.com collects personal information from you only when you choose to share it with us. Our goal is to provide you with great services and a customer-friendly experience.

If you choose to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. MineralRightsForum.com does not store this information and it is used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Cookies: MineralRightsForum.com automatically receives and records certain non-personal information about your site visit through the use of cookies. Cookies are files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. Information collected includes your IP address, your referral source, and the page(s) you request.

Generally, we use cookies to:

• Fulfill your requests for products and services, and improve our services.
• Remind us of who you are on return visits. This cookie is set when you first visit the MineralRightsForum.com Web site.
• Estimate our audience size and measure traffic patterns.

If you are uncomfortable having a cookie placed on your system, you may elect to turn off the cookie or delete existing cookies in your browser. If you turn off or delete the MineralRightsForum.com cookie, you may not be able to receive special offers.

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 services to you. In certain areas MineralRightsForum.com uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

MineralRightsForum.com may update this policy at any time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to MineralRightsForum.com.