Michael Thacker . net – Privacy Policy
Keeping Your Secrets (and mine) Safe
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The Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At MichaelThacker.net, 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.
- Our blogging products 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.
Michael Thacker .net Website Visitors
Like most website operators, MichaelThacker.net 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. MichaelThacker.net purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how MichaelThacker.net visitors use its website. From time to time, MichaelThacker.net may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
MichaelThacker.net also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on MichaelThacker.net blog. MichaelThacker.net 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 and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to MichaelThacker.net website choose to interact with MichaelThacker.net in ways that require MichaelThacker.netto gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that MichaelThacker.net gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. MichaelThacker.net 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
MichaelThacker.net may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, MichaelThacker.net may monitor the most popular blogs on the MichaelThacker.net site. However, MichaelThacker.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
MichaelThacker.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that need to know that information in order to process it on MichaelThacker.net‘s behalf or to provide services available at MichaelThacker.net website, and 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 MichaelThacker.net website, you consent to transfer such information to them. MichaelThacker.net 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, MichaelThacker.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests or when MichaelThacker.net believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of MichaelThacker.net, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the MichaelThacker.net website and have supplied your email address, MichaelThacker.net may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date with what’s going on with MichaelThacker.net 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. MichaelThacker.net 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 store on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. MichaelThacker.net uses cookies to help MichaelThacker.net identify and track visitors, their usage of MichaelThacker.net website, and their website access preferences. MichaelThacker.net visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using MichaelThacker.net website, with the drawback that certain features of MichaelThacker.net website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If MichaelThacker.net, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that MichaelThacker.net 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 MichaelThacker.net may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
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 MichaelThacker.net and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, MichaelThacker.net may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in MichaelThacker.net sole discretion. MichaelThacker.net encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.
All material presented herein is intended for information purposes only. While this information is believed to be correct, it is represented subject to errors, omissions, changes, or withdrawal without notice.
Note that some goods, services, and advertising on this site may be an affiliate (paid or paying) in nature. However, at no time will MichaelThacker.net portray support or endorsement of said goods or services solely on that basis.