Privacy Policy
Our promise to you...
All the information we collect from you will be for statistical and
demographic purposes only. We will not give out your information or
sell it to others. Further, we will not send you junk mail either. The
only things we email you will be things you explicitly ask for (like
a password reminder), mailing lists that you sign up for, or notifications
about your account status.
All the information we gather...
The following is a table that summarizes all the information we collect
from users and how we use it:
| Information |
How we use it... |
| Email Address |
Your email address is collected to have an address
to send you lost password notifications. Also, collecting email
addresses serves as a way to limit abuse of the system, in that
we only allows accounts to remain active when the email address
has been verified.
Your email address is not displayed publicly on your user info
page.
We send you emails in notifications of comments on your journal
entries, or replies to comments you've made on other's journal
entries.
Your email address is never given away or sold to third-parties.
One exception is that if you explicitly check the "Send me special
promotions" check box in your user profile, we can then authorize
a third-party to email you. However, we've never done this, nor
do we plan to. It was mainly included as an option to ascertain
how many users would be interested in it. |
| Name/Handle |
When creating a journal, we ask that you provide
your name or handle to be listed at the top of your journal. This
does not have to be your real name if you'd prefer. |
| Birthday |
We optionally ask for your birthday, for our own
statistical purposes. You may leave this blank. |
| Gender |
We optionally ask for your gender (male or female),
for our own statistical purposes. The default is (Unspecified)
and you may leave it like that if you'd like. This is not displayed
publicly, although be aware people can often guess your sex from
your username, name, and/or journal entries. |
| Webpage |
You can optionally enter your website's URL. If
you list it, it will show up your public user information page so
others may visit your website. |
| AOL IM, ICQ |
These are displayed in your user biography. If
you do not want people having access to these simply do not enter
them. |
| City, State, Zip, Country |
All this information is optional. If you provide
it, and also choose to be listed in the user directory, then this
information is used to determine what region to show your link under.
|
| Your picture |
You do not have to upload a picture. However,
you can choose to upload a picture of yourself, your cat, a drawing,
whatever. Whatever you do upload will be used to represent yourself
in various parts of the site, along with your name and username.
|
Anything else?
Are we forgetting anything? Do you have any other questions
we can answer for you and place on this page so others don't have the
same questions? Contact us here. |
