Your privacy is essential, and we know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared. We strongly believe in upholding the highest standards of internet privacy, as well as protecting your personal information. When you visit this website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Here are a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, protect our rights, or improve your visiting experience.
- The information we collect is used to improve the quality of our service and your experience while visiting, and is not shared or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers except for when it is required for the on-going operation and security of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most websites, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how you, our visitors, use our websites, and then hopefully make necessary adjustments to improve your experience.
We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs, exclusively for security purposes. Commenter IP addresses are disclosed only to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors choose to interact in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. We collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the understanding that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
We may collect statistics about visitor behavior and preferences at our website. For instance, we may monitor the most frequently visited pages, analyze visitor data and behaviors, or use spam screening by the Akismet service to help identify commenting spam. Our intention is to more fully understand our visitors’ behaviors and to provide safe and enjoyable experiences every time you visit our website.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences.
Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. We use cookies solely to improve your user experience and never to acquire personal information to sell to others for commercial gain.
What Rights You Have Over Your Personal Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.