Privacy policy

Your privacy is critically important to me, and I have a few fundamental principles:

• I don’t ask you for personal information unless I truly need it.
• I don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop my products, or protect my rights.
• I don’t store personal information on my servers unless required for the on-going operation of my services.

Below is my privacy policy which incorporates these goals.

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact me.

It is my policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website visitors

Like most website operators, I 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. The purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use this website. From time to time, I may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, eg by publishing a report on trends in the usage of this website.

I also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on this site. I only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of personally-identifying information

Certain visitors to this websites choose to interact with it in ways that require me to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that I gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who engage in transactions with myself may be asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, I collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with myself. I do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Protection of certain personally-identifying information

I may disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of my employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on my behalf or to provide services available at this website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using thiss websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. I will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, I may discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when I believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect my property or rights, third parties or the public at large. I will take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. I uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of this website, and their website access preferences. Visitors to this website who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using this website, with the drawback that certain features of this website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, I may change this privacy policy from time to time, and in mysole discretion. I encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to my privacy policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change log

5 May 2012: Initial policy released.

5 April 2013: Minor typos corrected.

Credit

This policy is based on Automattic’s privacy policy, which is released under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, as is this policy.