Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At The Ezine Article Group 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.
• In our blogging products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Ezine Article Group 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. The Ezine Article Group’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Ezine Article Group’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Ezine Article Group may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Ezine Article Group also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The Ezine Article Group 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 The Ezine Article Group’s website choose to interact with The Ezine Article Group in ways that require The Ezine Article Group to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Ezine Article Group gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. The Ezine Article Group collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Ezine Article Group. The Ezine Article Group 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

The Ezine Article Group may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Ezine Article Group may monitor the most popular articles or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Ezine Article Group may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Ezine Article Group does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Ezine Article Group 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 The Ezine Article Group’s behalf or to provide services available at The Ezine Article Group’s 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 The Ezine Article Group’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Ezine Article Group 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, The Ezine Article Group discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Ezine Article Group believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Ezine Article Group, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Ezine Article Group website and have supplied your email address, The Ezine Article Group 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 The Ezine Article Group 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. The Ezine Article Group 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. The Ezine Article Group uses cookies to help The Ezine Article Group identify and track visitors, their usage of The Ezine Article Group website, and their website access preferences. The Ezine Article Group visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Ezine Article Group’s website, with the drawback that certain features of The Ezine Article Group’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website 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 The Ezine Article Group and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Ezine Article Group may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Ezine Article Group’s sole discretion. The Ezine Article Group encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.