Privacy statement

Trenchrat, LLC is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from our users. Please read the following to understand our views and practices regarding personal information, and how they pertain to you as you use our various features and services. This statement discloses the privacy practices for the entire Web site. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact either Trenchrat.com's site coordinator at webmaster@trenchrat.com this Privacy Statement answers the following questions:

• What information does Trenchrat.com gather about you?
• What does Trenchrat.com do with your personal information?
• What if you buy something through Trenchrat.com?
• How does Trenchrat.com use cookies and "IP Addresses"?
• Will Trenchrat.com disclose any of your personal information?
• Will Trenchrat.com use your information for direct mailings?
• How can you deactivate your account or correct or revise information that Trenchrat.com has about you?
• What else should you know about your privacy?

WHAT INFORMATION DOES TRENCHRAT.COM GATHER ABOUT YOU?
Trenchrat.com asks for your name, and email address, and other personal information when you register to use our message boards, portfolios, or chat areas, or if you sign up for any special or personalized service such as a subscription service. We also may ask for such information at other times, such as whenever you enter sweepstakes or other promotions sponsored by Trenchrat.com and/or our partners. Sometimes we conduct surveys, too, although you don't have to respond to them. We also collect IP addresses to help us understand how our audience uses our site, so that we can make our site better and improve our users' overall experience when they visit Trenchrat.com.

HOW DOES TRENCHRAT.COM USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Trenchrat.com collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized Web experience possible and to provide our advertisers with an efficient means to reach the right audience. By knowing a little about you, Trenchrat.com can deliver more relevant content and advertisements, and thus a better service to you while at our Web site. Sometimes we ask for personal information when providing special, personalized service. If you don't want to give us that information, you certainly don't have to, but you may not be able to take advantage of certain products or services. For example, we can't ship a product to you unless you provide us with a shipping address. 

Trenchrat.com collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and for studying how people use our site and how we can improve it. Cookies are not used on Trenchrat.com, however Advertising networks that serve ads onto our site may use cookies but please note that we don't control, nor have access to those cookies. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you've received one.

WILL TRENCHRAT.COM DISCLOSE ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Trenchrat.com will not disclose any information about individual users, except as described in this Privacy Statement, or to comply with applicable laws or valid legal process, or to protect the rights or property of Trenchrat.com. We do not give, rent, lend, or sell individual information to our advertisers, only aggregate information. For example, we might tell advertisers that there are 87,500 Registered Rats on Saturn, but we won't tell them that Captain Kirk is one of them, and we won't tell them that his email address is jkirk@enterprise.com. We may also use this aggregated information to help the advertisers reach the kind of audience they want but only Trenchrat.com has access to individuals' accounts.
We may also disclose aggregate information (for example, 35,000 of our users clicked on a message board advertisement last month) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes. We may disclose personal information in some limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when we collect the information, such as in the rules of a sweepstakes or some new service. For example, if we're going to give personal information to the sponsor of a contest, we'll tell you that before you sign up for the contest, so that you can decide whether or not to enter.

WILL TRENCHRAT.COM USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR DIRECT MAILINGS?

If you register for our site or sign up for our personalized services, we will send you information about our various products and services, or other products and services we feel may interest you. Only Trenchrat.com (or people working on our behalf and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such offers and mailings, you can let us know by sending an email to webmaster@trenchrat.com; We'll remove your name from our lists as soon as we can. (It may take a little while.) Another way is to simply reply to the message you don't want, with "Remove" as the subject of the message.

HOW CAN YOU DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT OR EDIT THE INFORMATION TRENCHRAT.COM HAS ABOUT YOU?

If you have registered with Trenchrat.com but want to cancel your registration, please send an email to webmaster@trenchrat.com. We will cancel your registration and remove you from our mailing lists, but it may take a little while.
If you want to correct or change the information in your Profile, or any other information we have about you, please email webmaster@trenchrat.com.

WHAT ELSE SHOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR PRIVACY?

The information you post on message boards, in chat rooms, is visible to the public. That's really the point of the boards, chats, and interviews. Please remember that whenever you disclose personal information publicly – for example, on message boards, through email, or in chat areas – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. If you don't want strangers to send you email, don't post your email address on a message board. Furthermore, while we do our best to protect your personal information, Trenchrat.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. What does all this mean? Just as in the investing world, you must protect yourself. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
Many of our advertisers or partners, such as brokerages, merchants, or data providers link from our site to areas on their own sites where they sell their own goods and services. If you follow these links from our site to theirs, you should be aware that these other sites have their own privacy and data collection practices. Trenchrat.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies, check that site.
Please note: once an account is created, we will send you a confirmation email acknowledging your new account to the address that you supplied us. This email will give you the option to delete your account, in case you change your mind or in case you were not the one who created it in the first place. You should keep the confirmation email as it will also contain information that will help you use our service.