Last Updated: May 15, 2026
The Fundamental Investing Institute (“Fundamental Investing Institute,” “FII,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website, use our educational resources, purchase or access our books or courses, subscribe to our emails, contact us, or otherwise interact with us.
This Privacy Policy applies to https://fundamentalinvestinginstitute.com and any related pages, forms, resources, courses, books, podcast pages, lecture pages, or other services that link to this Privacy Policy.
By using our website or services, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of information:
Information you provide directly
We collect information you choose to provide, such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number, if provided
- Mailing address, if needed for purchases or fulfillment
- Account login information, if you create an account
- Course registration information
- Book purchase information
- Contact form submissions
- Newsletter or email subscription information
- Comments, reviews, survey responses, or other content you submit
- Any other information you choose to send to us
Payment and transaction information
If you purchase books, courses, memberships, or other products, payment information may be collected and processed by our third-party payment processors, course platforms, ecommerce providers, or fulfillment providers. We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our website.
Automatically collected information
When you visit our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Referring URLs
- Time spent on pages
- Clicks and interactions
- Approximate location based on IP address
- Cookie identifiers and similar tracking technologies
Comments
If visitors leave comments on the website, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
Media uploads
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data. Visitors may be able to download and extract location data from images uploaded to the website.
How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Provide, operate, and improve our website
- Deliver courses, books, resources, downloads, and educational materials
- Process purchases, registrations, and transactions
- Respond to questions, support requests, and contact form submissions
- Send newsletters, updates, educational content, promotional emails, or administrative messages
- Manage user accounts, course access, and customer support
- Personalize user experience and website functionality
- Analyze website traffic, engagement, and performance
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, spam, security issues, and technical problems
- Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations
- Enforce our Terms of Use and protect our rights, users, and business
We do not use your personal information to provide individualized investment, legal, tax, or financial advice.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, improve performance, analyze traffic, and support marketing or communications.
Cookies may include:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for core website functions, such as security, cookie preferences, login sessions, checkout functions, and form submissions.
Preference cookies
These cookies help remember your settings, such as cookie consent choices or form preferences.
Analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, which pages are visited, and how users interact with content.
Marketing or communication cookies
If enabled, these cookies may help us measure campaigns, improve email or advertising performance, or understand how users interact with our content.
Comment cookies
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies may last for up to one year.
Login cookies
If user accounts are available and you log in, cookies may be used to save login information and display preferences.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through our cookie consent banner or cookie settings tool. Blocking some cookies may affect website functionality.
Email Communications
If you subscribe to our email list, download a resource, enroll in a course, purchase a product, or otherwise request communications, we may send you educational content, product updates, course information, promotional messages, or administrative notices.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us using the information below. We may still send non-marketing messages related to transactions, accounts, course access, legal notices, or customer support.
How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information for money.
We may share personal information with trusted third parties who help us operate our business, including:
- Website hosting providers
- Email marketing platforms
- Course platforms
- Ecommerce and book fulfillment providers
- Payment processors
- Analytics providers
- Spam detection and security tools
- Customer support tools
- Professional advisors, such as attorneys, accountants, or consultants
- Government authorities, courts, or regulators when required by law
We may also share information:
- To process payments or fulfill purchases
- To provide access to courses, books, downloads, or resources
- To protect the security and integrity of our website
- To prevent fraud, abuse, spam, or unauthorized access
- To comply with legal obligations
- In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, or transfer of assets
If we use third-party tools, those third parties may process information according to their own privacy policies.
Third-Party Services and Embedded Content
Our website may include links to third-party websites, embedded videos, podcast players, course platforms, payment processors, social media platforms, or other external services.
Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited that third-party website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you are logged into an account with that third party.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before submitting personal information.
Course, Book, and Product Purchases
If you purchase or access a course, book, digital product, membership, or other educational offering, we may collect information necessary to process the transaction, provide access, deliver the product, communicate with you, and maintain business records.
Payment information is typically processed by third-party payment processors or ecommerce providers. We do not intentionally collect or store full credit card numbers on our website.
Purchase and enrollment information may be retained for administrative, tax, accounting, legal, customer support, and access-management purposes.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
For example:
- Contact form submissions may be retained as long as needed to respond and maintain business records.
- Email subscription records may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to legal exceptions.
- Purchase, payment, and course enrollment records may be retained for tax, accounting, legal, support, and access-management purposes.
- Comments and comment metadata may be retained indefinitely unless deleted.
- Security logs may be retained for a limited period to protect the website and investigate abuse.
- Cookie preferences may be retained according to the cookie tool’s settings.
When information is no longer needed, we may delete, anonymize, or securely retain it as required by law or legitimate business needs.
How We Protect Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, internet transmission, email system, or electronic storage method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Request a copy of your information
- Opt out of marketing emails
- Control cookies through browser settings or our cookie consent tool
- Object to or restrict certain processing, where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
To make a privacy request, contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. We may also retain certain information when required or permitted by law, including for legal, security, tax, accounting, fraud prevention, or legitimate business purposes.
U.S. State Privacy Rights
Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws. These rights may include the right to know, access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of personal information, opt out of certain uses of personal information, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.
California residents may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, if those laws apply to our business.
We do not sell personal information for money. If our use of analytics, advertising, or similar technologies is considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under applicable law, you may have the right to opt out.
To exercise applicable state privacy rights, contact us using the information below or use any privacy controls available on the website.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights.
International Visitors
Our website is operated from the United States. If you access the website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be collected, processed, and stored in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with specific privacy laws, you may have additional rights under applicable law. These may include rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, withdraw consent, or request data portability.
Where required, we rely on appropriate legal bases for processing personal information, such as consent, performance of a contract, legitimate interests, legal obligations, or other lawful bases.
Children’s Privacy
Our website, courses, books, and resources are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us.
Financial Education Disclaimer
Fundamental Investing Institute provides educational content only. Our website, books, courses, podcast, lectures, and resources are not intended to provide personalized investment, financial, legal, accounting, or tax advice.
Any personal information you submit through our website should not include sensitive financial account numbers, Social Security numbers, private investment account credentials, or other highly sensitive information unless specifically requested through a secure and appropriate channel.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may link to third-party websites, tools, platforms, or resources. We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, or security practices of those third parties. Your use of third-party websites is subject to their own terms and privacy policies.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the website after any changes means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a privacy request, contact us at:
Fundamental Investing Institute
Website: https://fundamentalinvestinginstitute.com
Contact Page: https://fundamentalinvestinginstitute.com/contact/
Email: contact@fundamentalinvestinginstitute.com