Section 1. Information Collection, Sharing and Disclosure.

It is ACUTIMES’ policy to respect the privacy of its users. When you sign up as a registered member of ACUTIMES, ACUTIMES will require your name, email address, gender, date and place of birth, education, occupation, yearly household income and zip code ("Registration Data"). In addition to the Registration Data provided by you , ACUTIMES may also collect and store certain personally identifiable information about you in ACUTIMES’ secure database, when you visit ACUTIMES’ web site, when you use some of ACUTIMES’ services or products, or when you enter promotions or sweepstakes on ACUTIMES’ web site. ACUTIMES also automatically receives and records information from your browser including but not limited to your IP address, the pages you requested and the time of request. ACUTIMES may use the information it obtains relating to you, for its internal business and marketing purposes, including but not limited to (i) fulfilling your requests for certain products and services; (ii) customizing the marketing materials and the content you see on ACUTIMES’ web pages; and (iii) contacting you about special and new products. ACUTIMES may disclose your information to third parties and share your information, including both the personally identifiable and the aggregated information, with ACUTIMES’ partners and/or alliances, when (i) ACUTIMES gets your consent to share the information; (ii) ACUTIMES needs to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; (iii) ACUTIMES needs to send your information to companies who work on behalf of ACUTIMES to provide a product or service to you; (iv) required by subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or when (v) your actions on ACUTIMES’ web site violate ACUTIMES’ TOU or any of ACUTIMES’ usage guidelines for specific products or services on any applicable web page.

Section 2. Cookies.

ACUTIMES may set and access its cookies on your computer. The general purposes of using such cookies include but not limited to (I) authenticating users for services provided by ACUTIMES to them; (ii) counting the number of users accessing the Web Site; (iii) providing users with relevant information according to the preference specified by the users; and (iv) for ACUTIMES’ own convenience to indicate whether a specific user has paid for the subscribed service or not. For your information and notification, as certain companies serve the advertisements within ACUTIMES’ web site, ACUTIMES allows such companies, so-called third-party ad servers or ad networks to set and access their cookies on your computer. Such companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Such companies do not have access to ACUTIMES’ cookies.

Section 3. You may edit and delete your ACUTIMES Netizen account
information and preferences.

You may access to http://members.Acutimes.com/edit/index.html to edit your ACUTIMES Netizen account information. You may also delete your ACUTIMES Netizen account information and preferences by emailing such request to support@staff.Acutimes.com

Section 4. Advertisements.

ACUTIMES may, on behalf of its advertisers, display or send targeted advertisements to you based upon nonpublic personal information about you, provided however that in the process of doing so, ACUTIMES will not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to the advertisers. Such advertisers include both financial service providers and non-financial service providers. If you feel interested in such advertisement and respond accordingly, any personal information you give to the advertisers may give the advertisers a clue about the characteristics used by them to select the audience for further advertisement. If you do not want to disclose any information about yourself to the advertisers, do not respond to such advertisements. ACUTIMES will not share your personally identifiable information with any third party when you click on these advertisements.

Section 5. Changes to this Privacy Policy.

ACUTIMES may amend its privacy policy at any time and from time to time. If ACUTIMES makes any substantial changes regarding how ACUTIMES uses your personal information, ACUTIMES will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on ACUTIMES’ web site.