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| This Web site (, a service ofFran Finnegan & Company) is only an information service for accessing SEC Filings,so your questions will be ignored unless they pertain to. We simply publish SEC Filings, filed by companies, institutions and individuals,as our service. We arenot the SECnor some company whose public SEC Filings you may have found here. If you are trying to contact the SEC,click here,or if you are trying to contact a particular company whose Filings we’ve published,you must contact itelsewhere. If you can’t find a document on our site, you may request assistance directly from the SEC bysubmitting anSEC Document Request. We arenot in the business of doing research for you, so we willnot reply to a research request. Otherwise, if your questions pertain specifically to using our site, please use this Form. Before doing so, though, you should see ourAnswers to Frequently Asked Questions below. Thank you. |
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| Q: | What is your Privacy Policy? |   |
| A: | OurPrivacy Policy... User Info: Anything that is submitted to us by a user from any page within our site(such as a user’s name, e-mail address, password, phone number or new-Filing notification request)is kept confidential and is not sold nor disclosed to any other party,unless we are required by law to disclose it. Users can update their information online at any time. Any information we receive from or is also kept confidential and is not disclosed. We use Web “cookies” only to manage users’ sessions,and we do not store any “personally identifiable information” in them. SEC Info: Information that has been filed with theU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),and has been disseminated or made publicly available by them, is historic“public domain” information, since one of their organizational functions is to mandate“full disclosure” within the securities markets that they regulate. Without any human intervention, our software processes and re-publishes this public information,which may containall categories of “personally identifiable information”as originally disclosed by Filers and the SEC pursuant to Federal securities law. If there is anything that you consider “private” on our site which you want removed,such as aSocial Security Number,see ourChange Policy below forinstructions on how to requestRedactions. Legal Info: This has been our policy, more or less, since 1997. It is in conformance with theCalifornia Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003. If we change our policy, we’ll update this page. | |
| Q: | How can I start receiving e-mail notices of new Filings? | |
| A: | 1: If you havenot signed up for our service, you must firstSign Up as a New User. 2: Once signed up, if you arenot signed in, you mustSign In with your e-mail address. 3: Once signed in, search (from either ourHome page or ourSearch page) for thecompany, institution or individual that you want to receive new-Filing notifications for. On the search-results page,find the name of the U.S.-filingRegistrant that you are interested in, and click on it so that you go to their Registrant page. 4: In the Filings section of their Registrant page, there is a checkbox next to “E-Mail” which you toggle to turnon, oroff, new-Filing notifications forall Filings involving that single Registrant. For example,click hereto see the checkbox in the Filings section ofMicrosoft’s Registrant page. 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 foreach Registrant you are interested in. 6: If you want notifications for particular Filing-Types forall Registrants, request them by goingto yourUser Infopage and clicking on the New-Filing E-Mail Notification (by Filing-Types) link. Note: Your e-mail reader / system / service must be configured to accept mail from | |
| Q: | How can I stop receiving e-mail notices of new Filings? | |
| A: | The bottom of each notice contains a link that you can click on which will doone of three things: 1: Take you to our Not Found page, if your e-mail reader truncated or broke the link in the 2: Automatically turnoff all new-Filing notifications, if you havenever signed up for our service(but someone else in your organization requested that you receive the new-Filing notifications). 3: Take you to your New-Filing E-Mail Notification (by Registrants) page, where you can manually turn themoff foreach Registrant. This page, for users whohave signed up, requires that you be signed in. You can also get to thispage at any time while you are signed in by going to yourUser Infopage and clicking on the New-Filing E-Mail Notification (by Registrants) link. If you are gettingall noticesrelated to one or more specific Filing-Types, then you must click on the New-Filing E-Mail Notification (by Filing-Types) linkand turn themoff on that page. | |
| Q: | My e-mail address has changed. How can I update it for signing in here? | |
| A: | Sign In with your old e-mail address. Then, click on your name orUser Infoat the top. On your User Information page, click on “Change Your User Information”, and update it. | |
| Q: | Can a company put a direct link on their site to their info on your site? | |
| A: | Yes, please do so. Just follow these simple steps: 1: Sign Into our service and find the Registrant page for your company. 2: When you get to your company’s Registrant page, note the URL in the Address/Locationline of your Web browser. (UsingMicrosoft as an example, the URL for its Registrant page is: 3: Copy the URL for your Registrant page (with your SEC CIK number) and paste it into a linkat your site. The link will look something like this (again usingMicrosoft as an example): <A </A> In lieu of just as your link text, you can say whatever you want for users to click on,provided that somewhere in the link text it says “” and/or “”. Alternatively, you could useour logo,in place of the “” text, with thisimage link: <A <Img Src="http://www.secinfo.com/Images/SECinfo.115x42.gif" Width=115 Height=42 Border=0 Alt="SEC Info" Title="SEC Info"></A> | |
| Q: | Who must use EDGAR to file with the SEC? | |
| A: | Beginning in 1996,all companies and individuals that report to the SEC are subject to the SEC’s EDGAR electronic filing requirements. Not only the company’s own Filings, but also most third-party Filings with respect to that Registrant, have to be filed electronically. Only a few specific Filings (such as Form 144 in the U.S.) are exempt from mandated electronic filing. We only publish Filings that are made electronically. | |
| Q: | Why can’t I find foreign companies traded on NASDAQ in the database? | |
| A: | Foreign private issuers and foreign governments are not mandated to file on EDGAR, but may do so voluntarily, provided thattheForm/Filing-Type is available on EDGAR. | |
| Q: | How can I correct or delete information that is in your database? | |
| A: | OurChange Policy: Corrections –Deletions –Redactions –Social Security Numbers –SSNs and Search Engines Background: The information that is on our site is published here after it was first filed at and disclosed bytheU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursuant to Federal law. The SEC filings made by a Filer or Filing Agent who is an SEC Registrant came from the SEC at the time they were filed,and, as a result of being filed, are now forever in the “public domain”. We publish the names of the Filer(s), Issuer and Filing Agent at the top of each document. Corrections: If it’s a correction to your Registrant information (as a Filer, Issuer orFiling Agent), such as your name / address / phone number, or some Filing-specific piece of information(in the Submission data), you or your Filing Agentmustdirectly contactEDGAR Filer Support (at Deletions: SEC Filings are forever in the “public domain” once they are filed and disseminated,whether via paper or electronically, even if the SEC subsequently deletes them from its own Web site. More precisely, it is the information in them that is forever in the public domain. For many reasons, ranging from public policy to practical considerations, there isno Federal or State law,rule or regulation that does or evencould mandate the absolute deletion of SEC Filings or any of their contents. Since Filings are basically collections of information,where the Filing’s computer file is just the delivery package,any effort to delete that delivery package is meaningless after the information in it has beensliced & diced and copied into various formats and representations by us and others and made public. As such, an EDGAR “deletion notice” is informational only,simply communicating that the SEC does not consider the Filing valid from a securities-law perspective,so some sites ignore it and others don’t. The SEC makes clear the concept of“Filer beware”with respect to this — ask any Filing Agent. It is also important to recognize that theEDGAR System operates independently of and separatelyfromall Web sites, whether it’s the SEC’s own site or ours or any others(including search engines), so each site has to establish its own policy with respect to deletions. Our policy is that any deletion designation made by theEDGAR System will be noted in,butnot reflected in, our database, and noted at the top of each Document / Exhibit in the Filing. Therefore, our site may be the only functional one that provides a complete history of everything that has been filed. As a technical matter, deleting something from our system would “break” it,resulting in broken links and “not found” errors,so we don’t delete anything because of our unique cross-linking complexity. Even if we could delete a Filing’s computer file just like the SEC site and other simple sites do,copies of it would still be in the caches of the dozens of search engines that archive our site. (We can’t do Filing “Deletions”, but wecan do text “Redactions”.) Redactions: In compliance with theCalifornia Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003,this is our change-request process... We cannot delete filings (seeDeletions above),but we may redact (“black out”) text in certain situations. If an SEC Filing contains sensitive or personal information,such as Social Security Numbers (seeSSNs below),we may redact that information for a fee. We charge for this service because it involves a lot of work, due to the complexity of our system,which you will understand if you are a frequent user of our site. The architecture of our system, beginning in 1996 when we started designing it, is predicated upon the factthat SEC Filings contain “static” Documents and Exhibits that are placed in the public domain(seeDeletions above),just as books, newspapers and paper documents are static. It is their static nature that allows us to add our billions of unique and usefulintra- and inter-Document links, but it has also resulted in our writing software for over 15 years thatassumes that nothing within the textual content of the historic Filings would ever change. Although you may only see a data item in the HTML version that the search engines index,it actually also exists in a dozen other places that we must find and redact it from. Each Redaction Request therefore requires hours (or weeks, in the case of very large projects)of manual research and meticulous work,because we haven’t yet fully automated the redaction process. We will manually change all of the basic and alternative formats that we have for each Document or Exhibit(besides the .html file, there may be .txt, .pdf, .rtf, .doc, .csv, .xls, .xml, .xbrl, .sgml, et al. files),plus all relevant database entries and internal search engine indexes. Any redactions that we make will be noted for the dozens of search engines that index our site, as described below. Redactions are usually made for the Filer or its/his/her agent (officer, attorney or Filing Agent),because other parties have no “legal standing” to affect changes to a Filer’s Filings,even if they are referenced therein, but we may make exceptions. The Filer or Filing Agent usually pays the cost of a redaction,since they made the original Filing. Our price to modify an individual Document or Exhibit is$50 for the first item changed,with further changes within that document priced on a declining scale. The price to be negotiated will depend upon the amount of work involved, which we will determine after you submit a request. To make an online Redaction Request,click here to use ourRedaction Requestpage,not the Form up above. Social Security Numbers (SSNs): SEC Filings (meaning their contents, including SSNs) are filedpursuant to Federal securities law in effect when the Filings are made and placed in the public domain(seeDeletions above). SEC Filershave been making such “full-disclosure” Filings per SEC Rules & Regulations since 1933. But even though the disclosure of SSNs has beenmandated (see “S.S. or I.R.S. Identification No.” in a‘Schedule 13G’),encouraged (see “IRS Ident. No.” in a‘Form 144’),voluntary (see “Social Security Number... (Voluntary)” in a‘Form 3’)orallowed (see “Tax Identification #” in a‘Proxy Statement’),we began redacting them upon request (seeRedactions above) in June 2006, a full year before the SEC changed its policy. SSNs in Filings made after June 2007 were and are now automatically redacted by the SEC and us, butonly ifthey are formatted in the hyphenated SSNs and Search Engines: If you found an SSN on our site by using a search engine,it is probably also on the other sites that subscribe to theEDGAR Dissemination System,but you may not realize it nor find those other sites. The reason you may have found the SSN only on our site and not on those other sites isbecause the search engines index our site much more than they do those sites,due to the billions of unique links that our software has added to the static Filings. Those links make us the best SEC-Filing research site, and as a side-effectallow search engines to “dig deeper” when crawling and indexing our pages. (SeeGoogle 101: How Google crawls, indexes, and serves the Webfor a description of why.) For example, click on these links to see how many pages has indexed fromSEC Info compared toEDGAR Online. So, there is an incredible irony here: You may be upset that you found your SSN on our site,but if we were not so good as to be so deeply indexed by the search engines,you may never have discovered that your SSN was filed at the SEC and placed in the public domain. Many wise people have thanked us for enabling them to know that this has happened. They understand that we have no way of knowing that their SSNis buried somewhere in the 500+ million pages on our site,any more than the search engine companies would know that they have indexed their SSN. Redacting an SSN from our site will cause it to automatically be removed from the search engines,because we interface with the search engines (,,, et al.) using theSitemaps protocol. | |
