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Your privacy is very important to me. At colinfiander.com I, Colin Fiander have a few fundamental principles that I follow:
Like most website operators, I, Colin Fiander 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. My purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how colinfiander.com visitors use the website. From time to time, I may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the website.
I, Colin Fiander also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on my blogs. I only disclose 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.
Certain visitors to my website choose to interact with me in ways that require me to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that I gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, I ask visitors who comment on my blog to provide a username and email address. I also collect the first name and email address of those who subscribe to my email list. Another example would be that the email address, first name and optionally the last name of a visitor is collected in order to send me a message via my contact page. In each case, I, Colin Fiander collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with colinfiander.com. I, Colin Fiander 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.
I, Colin Fiander may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to my websites. For instance, I may monitor the most popular pages on my site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. I, Colin Fiander may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, I do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
I, Colin Fiander disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to 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 I, Colin Fiander’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 I, Colin Fiander’s 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 my employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, I, Colin Fiander disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when I, Colin Fiander believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of I, Colin Fiander, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of one of I, Colin Fiander’s websites and have supplied your email address, I 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 me and my products. I primarily use my various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so I expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send me a request (for example via a support email or via one of my feedback mechanisms), I reserve the right to publish it in order to help me clarify or respond to your request or to help me support other users. I, Colin Fiander take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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, Colin Fiander use cookies to help me identify and track visitors, their usage of the colinfiander.com website, and their website access preferences. Any colinfiander.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using my websites, with the drawback that certain features of my websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If colinfiander.com, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that I, Colin Fiander go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of colinfiander.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads appearing on any of my 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 colinfiander.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on my servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case I store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, I, Colin Fiander may change my Privacy Policy from time to time, and in my sole discretion. I, Colin Fiander encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.