BMF Financial Media, LLC
In compliance with the law, we update this policy at least once per year. The last update to this policy was on July 12, 2024.
WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY AND WILL NOT COLLECT, SELL OR SHARE YOUR
INFORMATION, EXCEPT AS AUTHORIZED BY YOU AND ALLOWED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. WE DO
NOT MONITOR, COLLECT, STORE OR SHARE YOUR DATA EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW.
This Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions and sets forth the data
privacy practices of BMF Financial Media, LLC (“Bull Bear Daily” “we,” “us,” or
“our”) and applies solely to visitors and users (“consumers” or “you”) of our
website and other online applications owned and operated by us, as well as to
certain individuals we interact with over the phone or via SMS, including our
existing prospects and customers. This policy does not apply to any third-party
websites we may link to and we assume no responsibility or liability regarding
the same.
Our websites may at times record your interactions with it,
including for example your interactions with our online consent/opt-in forms
and webchat features. Do not make any use of our sites if you do not
consent for us to engage in this practice.
If you are an existing customer, your use of our websites and other services
is also governed by the purchase terms which existed at the time of your
purchase, along with any addendums and written modifications thereto.
We adopt this policy to comply with state data privacy statutes in CA, CO,
CT, DE, IN, IO, KY, MD, MN, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT and VA, most of
which are very new and some of which have not quite taken effect. Nothing
herein may be construed as creating any obligations for us beyond what is
required by the law.
Disabled users who need these disclosures presented in an
alternate medium, may contact us at the email address or telephone number
listed further below.
Your Rights as a Consumer
Depending upon where you live and as more fully explained below, you may
have significant rights related to the privacy of your personal information,
including:
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- Right to access your data.
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- Right to correct your data.
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- Right to have your data deleted.
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- Right to opt-out of certain forms of processing of your data.
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- Right to portability of your data.
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- Right to opt-out from the sale of your data.
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- Right to opt-in for certain sensitive data processing.
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- Right against certain forms of automated decision-making about your data.
- And, in California, the right to bring a private action to protect your data.
Information We Collect
We collect your personal information on our website in order to contact you
with the information you request. We also collect your information in
order to allow us and our conspicuously listed/disclosed partners to contact
you with the marketing offers you have requested or which we believe you may be
interested in based upon the information you submit.
As more fully set forth below, and by way of example only, we affirmatively
collect various categories of information about you, including your first and
last name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, social
security number, income, pay frequency, rent, housing type, names of creditors,
outstanding balances on debt, status of the payment of debt, personal expenses,
amount of debt, employment information, credit score, data from credit reports,
bank account information, military status, marital status, data collected
through recorded calls, cookies, pixels, session replay, IP address and other
geolocation data, and other personal information.
As explained at the point of online telephone number collection,
when you type your name and telephone number into our website or otherwise
submit the same to us, you agree that this shall act as your electronic
signature and express written consent that BMF Financial Media, along with its
agents, assigns and listed partners, may call and text you at the number(s)
provided (or provided later), with marketing offers and other information,
including possibly using an automatic telephone dialing system, prerecorded
messages, and artificial/AI voices, even outside of normal calling windows.
Consent is not a condition of purchase and you may opt-out later. Standard
rates apply and all calls may be recorded and monitored. By consenting, you are
specifically requesting that we share your information in this manner and for
these purposes. You agree to do business with us electronically and to receive
copies of these terms electronically. You can withdraw your electronic
signature or request a paper copy by emailing us at
[email protected].
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references,
is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or
indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”).
Specifically, we have collected the following categories of personal
information within the last twelve (12) months:
Category |
Examples |
Collected |
A. Identifiers. |
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal |
YES |
Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport |
NO |
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B. Personal information categories listed in the |
A name, address, telephone number, and education. Some |
YES |
Signature, Social Security number, physical |
YES |
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C. Protected classification characteristics under state or |
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national |
NO |
Medical condition, physical or mental disability, gender |
NO |
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D. Commercial information. |
Records of personal property, products or services |
YES |
E. Biometric information. |
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological |
NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. |
Browsing history, search history, information on a |
YES |
G. Geolocation data. |
Physical location or movements. |
YES, in the form of your IP address |
H. Sensory data. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar |
YES, but only if we record a phone call with you |
I. Professional or employment-related information. |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations. |
NO |
J. Non-public education information (per the Family |
Education records directly related to a student maintained |
NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. |
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, |
NO |
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the
following categories of sources:
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- Directly and indirectly from activity on our websites.
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- Directly from website visitors who submit information on web-opt-in forms and
third-party lead vendor forms
- Directly from website visitors who submit information on web-opt-in forms and
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- Directly from credit reporting agencies and data aggregators, some of which is
aggregate data and some individual.
- Directly from credit reporting agencies and data aggregators, some of which is
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- Directly from third-party marketers and their agents, who might collect permission
from you to share your information with us.
- Directly from third-party marketers and their agents, who might collect permission
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- From third-parties that interact with us in connection with the services we
perform. Including, for example, from advertising networks, consumer data
resellers, data analytics providers, internet service providers, social
networks and operating systems and platforms. We also collect information
from government entities and from publicly available records and
databases.
- From third-parties that interact with us in connection with the services we
- Directly from you over the phone, if you call us or we call you.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more
of the following business purposes:
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- To provide you with the SMS alerts you request from us.
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- To fulfil our obligations to existing customers.
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- To document our compliance with the law.
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- To provide it to the party or parties listed in the website form on which you
provided your information, per your request.
- To provide it to the party or parties listed in the website form on which you
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- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information.
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- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to
investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our
responses.
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to
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- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
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- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts
entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts
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- To improve our website and present its contents to you.
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- For testing, research, analysis and product development.
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- As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us,
our clients or others.
- As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us,
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- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court
order, or governmental regulations.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise
set forth in the various state data privacy statutes and regulations.
We will not collect additional categories of personal
information or use the personal information we collected for materially
different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Sharing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to a third party (eg: marketing
partners, service providers and data aggregators) for a business purpose. When
we disclose your information for business purposes our contracts state the
purpose and requires all parties use personal information for the sole purpose
of fulfilling the contract and also that all personal information be kept
confidential.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the
following categories of personal information for a business purpose: unique
personal identifiers (including your SSN if you live in TX), commercial
information, internet or other electronic network activity information,
geolocation information (including your IP address if captured by our website),
sensory data (including call recordings), and inferences or conclusions drawn
from personal information.
We may on occasion disclose your personal information for a business purpose
to the following categories of third parties:
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- Purchasers or users of our collected data.
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- Marketing partners.
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- Our corporate and contractual affiliates.
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- Service providers.
- Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal
information in connection with products or services provided to you.
In the last twelve (12) months, we have sold
the categories below of personal information for a business purpose:
(Note personal information is generally not considered “sold” if it is shared
at the specific request of the consumer.) unique personal
identifiers (including your SSN if you live in TX), commercial information,
internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation
information (including your IP address if captured by our website), sensory
data (including call recordings), and inferences or conclusions drawn from
personal information.
Basic Categories of Rights
As set forth herein, if you live in you may have most or all of the following
rights related to the privacy of your personal information, including:
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- Right to access your data.
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- Right to correct your data.
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- Right to have your data deleted.
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- Right to opt-out of certain forms of processing of your data.
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- Right to portability of your data.
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- Right to opt out from the sale of your data.
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- Right to opt-in for certain sensitive data processing.
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- Right against certain forms of automated decision-making about your data.
- And, only in California currently, a right to bring a private action to protect your
data.
Access to Specific Information and Data
Portability Rights
Residents of the above data privacy states, have the right to request that
we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your
personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your
verifiable consumer request (if we can), we will disclose to you:
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- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
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- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
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- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal
information.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal
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- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
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- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also
called a data portability
request).
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also
- If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two
separate lists disclosing: sales, identifying the personal
information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information
categories that each category of recipient obtained.
In certain cases, we might not be able to successfully
verify your identity, or the information may be too sensitive to
disclose. In such cases, we will notify you why we were not able to
provide the information to you.
Deletion Request Rights
After we have verified your identity and that you reside in one of the
current, active data privacy states, you have the right to request that we
delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and
retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your
verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers
to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception
applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary
for us or our service providers to:
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- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a
good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated
within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or
otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a
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- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or
illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or
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- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended
functionality.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended
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- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free
speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free
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- Comply with the law.
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- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in
the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and
privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible
or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided
informed consent.
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in
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- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer
expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer
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- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the
context in which you provided it.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and
Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described
above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by calling us at +1
(800) 467-0445, or by emailing the request to: [email protected].
Please note that only you or a person properly registered that you authorize
to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your
personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf
of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data
portability twice within a 12-month period.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information
if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm
the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer
request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only
use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify
the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
If we can accurately verify your identity based upon the information in your
request, we will not require additional ID before processing your data
demand. If we need to further verify your identity, you may need to
either provide a legible copy of your government-issued photo ID, or provide at
a minimum at least 3 specific data points which we already maintain about you.
We will try not to collect more personal information than is necessary to
successfully verify your identity.
Response Time and Format
We will generally confirm receipt of your Request within 10 days and fulfil
your request within 45 days, or up to 90 days if we notify you as to why we
need more time.
We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically. Any
disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the
verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also
explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For
data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal
information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the
information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer
request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If
we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that
decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights
If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not
sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”). We do not
sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 18
years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to
opt-in”) from either the consumer who is between 13 and 18 years of age, or the
parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who
opt-in to personal information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time.
To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may
submit a request to us by visiting the following our webpage and sending us a
message.
Once you make an opt-out request, we will wait at least twelve (12) months
before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales. However, you may
change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time by
visiting our website and sending us a message. We will only use personal
information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the
request.
Minors
Minors may not use our websites or submit information to us. We do not
intentionally collect information about minors.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy
rights. Unless permitted by the law, we will not:
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- Deny you goods or services.
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- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through
granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through
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- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a
different level or quality of goods or services.
New Jersey Public Servicemembers
We value the privacy of public service members and do not publish or otherwise
make available the information related to the same to the public. If you
are a public servicemember in New Jersey, including for example a current or
retired New Jersey judge, prosecutor or police officer, do not submit
any private, non-public contact information to us. If you do,
you agree that, to the extent your non-public contact information is protected
by New Jersey’s “Daniels law,” you will exercise your right to opt-out (a
non-disclosure request) only by emailing your request to
[email protected], and you will allow us a reasonable period to
recognize and honor your request.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at
any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated
notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your
continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your
acceptance of such changes.
Other California Rights
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83)
provides California residents with the right to request information regarding
our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes. To make a request, please contact us at the following email
address or phone number: +1 (800) 467-0445, or by filling out the request in
the below email link: [email protected].
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in
which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights
regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy
laws, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Attn: Privacy Officer
BMF Financial Media, LLC
203 N La Salle Street, Suite 2100
Chicago IL 60601
Telephone: +1 (800) 467-0445
[email protected]