If you think you’re being followed around town by a shady character in a trenchcoat and fedora, it may be one of your bill collectors, but it’s most certainly not us.  Debtbeat cares about your privacy and security, so what you bought at the coffee shop this morning is of no interest to us. (Although we do think you should have skipped that $2.95 scone.)

Regarding Data Collection and Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Google and other third party vendors use cookies to serve ads on this site.  Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to this sites and/or other sites on the Internet.  Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Debtbeat does not collect Sensitive Consumer Information as defined by the Network Advertising Initiative.

Regarding Web Beacons

Advertising networks that serve ads on our site may also use single-pixel GIFs in their display ads.  Any ad image shown on a website may include this pixel, otherwise known as a Web beacon.

Web beacons allow advertisers to count and recognize users who have visited specific pages or access certain cookies.  This is done for research and auditing and the collection of demographic information.

Web beacons can’t be blocked by wearing a tinfoil hat.  However, the signals that the government sends to make you shop more can be.

Regarding Children’s Privacy

We believe the children are the future…  (Sorry, but that is a great song.)

Even though children need to learn smart money management, we’ll leave that up to their parents.  Because they can’t enter into contracts and get snookered by banks, Debtbeat is not intended for use by anyone under the age of sixteen. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of sixteen.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact us.