Privacy policy

Effective date: November 9, 2026

Follow The Money Media LLC ("Follow The Money", "we", "us", or "our") operates ftmfinance.com (the "Site"). This policy explains what information we collect when you use the Site, and how we use it.

1. Information you give us

• Newsletter: your email address and the page where you signed up.
• Contact form: your name, email address and message, if you choose to send them.
• Votes: whether you agreed or disagreed with a piece of commentary.

2. Information collected automatically

We measure traffic with our own first-party analytics. For each page view we record the page, the referring site, an approximate country where our network provider supplies one, the device type and browser user agent, and a salted hash of your IP address that changes every day. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising trackers at this time.

3. Cookies and local storage

• When you vote on a piece of commentary we set one cookie (ftm_voter) holding a random identifier, so you can only vote once per piece.
• Stories you save are kept in your browser's local storage and never sent to us.
• Administrators of the Site use a session cookie to sign in.

4. Embedded videos

Video players load only when you click play, from youtube-nocookie.com. Once loaded, YouTube (Google) may collect information under its own privacy policy.

5. How we use information

To send newsletters you requested (you can unsubscribe at any time), answer messages, count votes, keep the Site secure and understand which stories readers find useful. We do not sell your personal information.

6. Sharing

We share information only with service providers that run the Site for us (hosting, content delivery, email delivery), or when required by law.

7. Retention

Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe. Messages are kept as long as needed to respond. Analytics records are kept in aggregate form.

8. Your choices and rights

You may ask us to access, correct or delete personal information we hold about you, including under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Email desk@ftmfinance.com.

9. Children

The Site is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

10. Changes

We will post any changes to this policy on this page with a new effective date.

11. Contact us

Follow The Money Media LLC
Email: desk@ftmfinance.com