Take Charge of Your Money is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Take Charge of Your Money site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Take Charge of Your Money site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Take Charge of Your Money collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Take Charge of Your Money also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Take Charge of Your Money. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Take Charge of Your Money for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Take Charge of Your Money site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Take Charge of Your Money public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Take Charge of Your Money does not read any of your private online communications.

Take Charge of Your Money encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Take Charge of Your Money so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Take Charge of Your Money is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Take Charge of Your Money and Take Charge of Your Money family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Take Charge of Your Money collects and uses your personal information to operate the Take Charge of Your Money Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Take Charge of Your Money also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Take Charge of Your Money and its affiliates. Take Charge of Your Money may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Take Charge of Your Money does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Take Charge of Your Money may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Take Charge of Your Money may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Take Charge of Your Money, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Take Charge of Your Money does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Take Charge of Your Money keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Take Charge of Your Money, in order to determine what Take Charge of Your Money services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Take Charge of Your Money to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Take Charge of Your Money Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Take Charge of Your Money or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Take Charge of Your Money; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Take Charge of Your Money, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Take Charge of Your Money Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Take Charge of Your Money pages, or register with Take Charge of Your Money site or services, a cookie helps Take Charge of Your Money to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Take Charge of Your Money Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Take Charge of Your Money features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Take Charge of Your Money services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Take Charge of Your Money secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Take Charge of Your Money secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Take Charge of Your Money will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Take Charge of Your Money encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Take Charge of Your Money is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Take Charge of Your Money welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Take Charge of Your Money has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Take Charge of Your Money at ctahr_ar@ctahr.hawaii.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.