Privacy Policy

At Holding Matters, accessible from https://holdingmatters.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Holding Matters and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our web site immediately.

Personal Information Collection and Use

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address (“Personal Information”). We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/enquiries, and improving our services.
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Information you Post on Our Website

Information you send to us by submitting a story of holding, or posting to a forum or blog, is stored on our servers. We do not specifically use that information except to allow it to be read, but you will see in our terms and conditions that we reserve a right to use it in any way we decide. When submitting stories of holding via our contact page, you are expected to use an alias in order to provide an anonymous post. We reserve the right to decide whether or not to share these posts on our website.

Content you Provide to Us with a View to be used by Third Parties

If you provide information to us with a view to it being read, copied, downloaded, or used by other people, we accept no responsibility for what that third party may do with it. It is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might see your information. If it is available to the world, neither we nor you have any control as to how it is used.

Log Files

Holding Matters follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Holding Matters uses 'cookies'. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive through your web browser when you visit any web site. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

Privacy Policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Holding Matters, which are sent directly to the users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Holding Matters has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Holding Matters's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Children's Use of Site and Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. Holding Matters is NOT intended for use by children. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their children’s online activity.
Holding Matters does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Disclosure to Government and their agencies

We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Holding Matters. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, please contact us by e-mail at contact@holdingmatters.com