Your privacy is critically important to us. At Blog Of The Leaf we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Below is our privacy policy (lifted from Automattic, thanks guys) which incorporates these goals:
(Note, we’ve decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to BlogOfTheLeaf.com somewhere on your site.)
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Blog Of The Leaf collects 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. Blog Of The Leaf’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blog Of The Leaf’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Blog Of The Leaf may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Blog Of The Leaf also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Blog Of The Leaf does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Blog Of The Leaf’s websites choose to interact with Blog Of The Leaf in ways that require Blog Of The Leaf to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Blog Of The Leaf gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who wish to comment to proved an email address. In each case, Blog Of The Leaf collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Blog Of The Leaf. Blog Of The Leaf does 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.
Aggregated Statistics
Blog Of The Leaf may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Blog Of The Leaf may monitor the most popular blog posts and comments or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Blog Of The Leaf may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blog Of The Leaf does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Blog Of The Leaf discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Blog Of The Leaf’s behalf or to provide services available at Blog Of The Leaf’s websites, 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 Blog Of The Leaf’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Blog Of The Leaf 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, Blog Of The Leaf discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Blog Of The Leaf believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Blog Of The Leaf, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Blog Of The Leaf website and have supplied your email address, Blog Of The Leaf may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Blog Of The Leaf and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Blog Of The Leaf takes 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. Blog Of The Leaf uses cookies to help Blog Of The Leaf identify and track visitors, their usage of Blog Of The Leaf website, and their website access preferences. Blog Of The Leaf visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blog Of The Leaf’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Blog Of The Leaf’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Blog Of The Leaf and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blog Of The Leaf may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blog Of The Leaf’s sole discretion. Blog Of The Leaf encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
