Contents

• Privacy Policy
• Website Visitors
• Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
• Aggregated Statistics
• Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
• Cookies
• Business Transfers
• Ads
• Privacy Policy Changes
• Credit

• Comments Policy
• Credit

Privacy Policy

It is Van Patten Media’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

Van Patten Media also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on this blog. Van Patten Media 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 are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Van Patten Media’s websites choose to interact with Van Patten Media in ways that require Van Patten Media to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Van Patten Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, Van Patten Media collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Van Patten Media. Van Patten Media 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

Van Patten Media may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Van Patten Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Van Patten Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Van Patten Media 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 Van Patten Media’s behalf or to provide services available at Van Patten Media’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 Van Patten Media’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Van Patten Media 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, Van Patten Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Van Patten Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Van Patten Media, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of an Van Patten Media website and have supplied your email address, Van Patten Media 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 Van Patten Media 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.

Van Patten Media 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. Van Patten Media uses cookies to help Van Patten Media identify and track visitors, their usage of Van Patten Media website, and their website access preferences. Van Patten Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Van Patten Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Van Patten Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Van Patten Media, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Van Patten Media 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 Van Patten Media 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 Van Patten Media and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Van Patten Media may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Van Patten Media’s sole discretion. Van Patten Media 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.

Credit

This privacy policy is adapted from the Automattic Privacy Policy, originally licensed under the Creative Commons Sharealike license.

Comment Policy

Some posts allow readers to post comments. On these posts, anyone may post a comment.

Van Patten Media reserves the exclusive right to moderate all comments posted on this site, including but not limited to:

• Editing or deleting comments that contain flames or ad hominem attacks against Van Patten Media, its employees and contractors, clients, families and friends of the aforementioned, and others in the community.
• Deleting comments that are off-topic.
• Deleting comments that contain offensive language.

Trackbacks are considered remote comments and are subject to these same rules.

This policy is intentionally liberal in scope in an effort to promote productive, constructive discussion and discourage negative, reductive commentary. Thank you for your consideration.

Credit

Based on a policy from Unraveled.org licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.