FreeFinancialPlanning.com is owned and operated by Platinum Worldwide, Inc. We are committed to providing you with excellent service for our products and services. Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy practices.

Since this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to our users' privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices. This Privacy Statement will inform you of:

• What information our site gathers about you and how we use the information we gather

• Your ability to opt-out of future notifications

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first send an e-mail to privacy@freefinancialplanning.com. Please specify "Privacy Statement" in the subject line of your e-mail.

Overview:

Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We at Platinum Worldwide are very aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of visitors to our Web site. We assure you that we do not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us.

Cookies / Technical information:

We use cookies to collect information about how consumers use our site. These cookies, do not store any personally identifiable information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, etc. as you browse our site. When you visit our web site, our web server sends a cookie to your computer. This cookie merely stores a limited amount of information about your site visit. It does not recognize any personal identifiable information about you. The cookie merely tracks aggregate information on how our site is being used. This includes session counts, navigation patterns, pages visited, etc. As you continue to navigate through our site, you remain anonymous to us. Our website also utilizes Web Logs to track aggregate information about how our web site is being utilized. Web logs track anonymous user information, including the number of visitors to our site, operating systems, Internet Provider addresses (if publicly available), and browser type. We utilize web logs solely for site analysis and do not use them to collect any personal identifiable information from you. Unlike cookies, Web Logs are maintained only on our servers and do not store or place anything on the user's computer.

Newsletter and Promotional Communications:

We send special offers and reminders about our service as well as promotional or special offers offered by third parties. Out of respect for our users privacy, we provide a way to opt-out of these communications with an unsubscribe link in the body of each communication.

Links:

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Platinum Worldwide is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site www.FreeFinancialPlanning.com

Forms:

This Site collects personally identifiable information from investors Investors who would like to be contacted by one of the Advisors in our network for the purpose of receiving information about the services in which interest has been expressed.

Please read this Policy very carefully before providing us with any information. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail us at info@freefinancialplanning.com.

Registration

Users are welcome to browse our web site, however, in order to participate in our financial advisor matching service, investors must first complete short registration forms.

Investor Registration

We require Investors to complete registration that includes basic contact information (such as your name, address and e-mail) and general information regarding your financial profile. You have the option of providing additional information pertaining to your financial goals and objectives. We highly encourage users to submit this information in order to assist in matching you with a financial advisor that can help you to achieve your goals and objectives. Investors can easily register at www.freefinancialplanning.com

The financial advisor matching process includes a several questions about personal financial data such as assets, portfolio size and net worth. In particular situations these data field entries are optional. This data is used specifically to perform an in-depth analysis of your financial advisory requirements and to match you with Advisors that suit your particular needs. FreeFinancialPlanning.com will not disclose your personal financial data to any third party besides the appropriate financial advisors, except if required by law.

Confidentialty

We will not disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, except as specified in this Privacy Policy. With the few exceptions explained here, we do not rent, give, lend, or sell individual information. Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our web site. We would may disclose personally identifiable information under the following circumstances: if we are required to by applicable law, or in response to legal process to protect the rights or property of Platinum Worldwide or to protect the safety of Platinum Worldwide, investors, advisors, and others; and (iii) with certain contractors of Platinum Worldwide who have entered into non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with Platinum Worldwide.

Sharing:

At some future point in time, we may establish other related companies, subsidiaries, or merge with or be acquired by another company. Should this occur, we may then disclose to them your personally identifiable information, in which case we will request them to abide by this privacy Policy. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information to a potential third party acquirer, even though such disclosure would be subject to customary and normal requirements.

We partner/co-brand with other websites to provide a wide variety of services. When you provide your information on our site, your information may be provided to our partners so that they may provide you with the services you have requested. We use a third party email service provider to send out our promotional communications to you. These companies are not permitted to retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes. We do not share personally identifiable data with third parties for unknown uses.

Corrections and updates:

If you would like to update or correct any information previously provided, please send an e-mail to: info@freefinancialplanning.com

Notification of Changes:

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post such changes to this privacy statement, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted. In addition, if we make any changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post such changes to our privacy statement.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 11, 2007.

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