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Privacy Policy for vote4idol
Vote4Idol ("vote4idol") operates several websites including vote4idol.com. It is vote4idol's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. This policy does not cover third-party sites and services.Website Visitors
Like most website operators, vote4idol 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. vote4idol's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how vote4idol's visitors use its website. From time to time, vote4idol may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.vote4idol also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on vote4idol.com blogs, discussions and messages. vote4idol 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 vote4idol's websites choose to interact with vote4idol in ways that require vote4idol to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that vote4idol gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who register for an account at vote4idol.com to provide a username and email address or other information. Those who engage in transactions with vote4idol – by purchasing content, goods or services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, vote4idol collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with vote4idol. vote4idol 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
vote4idol may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, vote4idol may monitor the most popular messages on the vote4idol.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. vote4idol may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, vote4idol does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
vote4idol 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 vote4idol's behalf or to provide services available at vote4idol'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 vote4idol's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. vote4idol 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, vote4idol discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when vote4idol believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of vote4idol, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an vote4idol website and have supplied your email address, vote4idol 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 vote4idol 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. vote4idol 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. vote4idol uses cookies to help vote4idol identify and track visitors, their usage of vote4idol website, and their website access preferences. vote4idol visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using vote4idol's websites, with the drawback that certain features of vote4idol's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.Business Transfers
If vote4idol, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that vote4idol 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 vote4idol 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 vote4idol and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet 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, vote4idol may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in vote4idol's sole discretion. vote4idol 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.Last updated 2/7/2012.