PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us here at Sharon Dill. We won’t ask you for your personal information unless we truly need it, and we won’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 our site. Sharon Dill has a policy of respect for your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

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

Sharon Dill also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our site. Sharon Dill only discloses logged in user and user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog user 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 Sharon Dill’s websites choose to interact with Sharon Dill in ways that require Sharon Dill to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Sharon Dill gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, visitors who want to contact us, provide a name and email address in our contact form. Those who wish to receive Sharon Dill updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Sharon Dill collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Sharon Dill. Sharon Dill 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

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

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

Sharon Dill 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 Sharon Dill’s behalf, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. By using Sharon Dill’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Sharon Dill 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, Sharon Dill discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Sharon Dill believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Sharon Dill, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Sharon Dill and have supplied your email address, Sharon Dill 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 Sharon Dill and our products. We primarily use our various pages 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), Sharon Dill reserves the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Sharon Dill 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. Sharon Dill uses cookies to help Sharon Dill identify and track visitors, their usage of Sharon Dill website, and their website access preferences. Sharon Dill visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Sharon Dill’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Sharon Dill’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Sharon Dill, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Sharon Dill goes out of business or enters 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 Sharon Dill may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on Sharon Dill 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 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 Sharon Dill and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our 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, Sharon Dill may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Sharon Dill’s sole discretion. Sharon Dill 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.