Equitable online privacy policy
All of us in the Equitable family of companies strongly believe in protecting the confidentiality and security of the personal information we collect.Safeguarding your personal information
If you are a client of one of our companies, you have already received a copy of our Privacy Policy, a copy of which can be found here. We will protect the confidentiality of all personal information about you in our possession, including any personal information you may provide us through our websites, in accordance with our Privacy PolicyIf you are not an Equitable client and are accessing our website to learn more about our companies and the products and services we offer, please be assured that we will also protect the confidentiality of any personal information we may acquire about you. We will not sell or rent information about you to anyone. However, we may disclose personal information to our affiliates, third party service providers or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
Information we collect from our websites
We may collect two types of information from our Website: information you enter into our Website when you request information from us on Website and tracking information that tells us how you use our Website. Any information you enter into our website will be treated as personal information. Personal information may include your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address as well as information about your investments, your investment goals and your tolerance for risk. We may also collect information about how you use our Website. We may obtain this information by tracking when you use our Website, which pages you view at which times and similar data through our Web server software and "cookies, web beacons and clear GIFs or tracking pixels".Our use of cookies, web beacons, clear GIF, tracking pixels and similar mechanisms
A cookie is a small data file that a websites can send to the browser on your computer when you link to that websites. It is not a computer program. A cookie does not extract personal information about you, such as your name and address, from your computer. It does not read data on your hard drive or instruct your computer to perform any function. A cookie sent to your browser from our websites can be used by our websites to recognize your computer whenever you subsequently log onto our websites. We also use cookies to track your usage patterns of our websites, such as how frequently you log in, which pages you use, when and for how long. Tracking information we may obtain by using a cookie may also be associated with personal information we may have collected about you.You may be able to use your browser to give you the option of accepting or rejecting a cookie whenever you visit a website. You may also be able to use your browser or other software to clear cookies from your hard drive any time you wish. However, deleting a website's cookie may mean that our websites will not recognize you as a repeat user. As a result you may have to re-enter information and reject a new websites cookie every time you attempt to access the website. Besides cookies we may use web beacons, clear GIFs, tracking pixels or similar tracking mechanisms to also track your usage patterns of our websites. Like cookies, these small files also do not store, record or share any personal information about you. We utilize third party Internet services vendors to collect site traffic data through the use of these web beacons and clear GIFs or tracking pixels that can be embedded in our websites. These vendors can then provide us with completely anonymous usage data to allow us to improve our websites. This usage data cannot in any way be associated with any personal information we have about you.