We offer services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us other than (optionally) your email address. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
* Information that you provide – When you place an article you will write the copy, give us your email address and possibly upload a picture. We may use some or all of this information to improve the quality of our services.
* Cookies – When you visit the website, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including storing of user preferences, and ad selection and tracking user trends.
* Log information – When you access our services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
* User communications – When you send emails or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your enquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
* Links – We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our technology, customised content and advertising.
* Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to our services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as advertising or links from our site. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
We only process information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
* Providing our services, including the display of customised content and advertising
* Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services
* Ensuring the technical functioning of our network
* Alerting users to new features or problems with our network or their account
* Developing new services.
We process information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process information on a server outside your own country. We may process information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
If we propose to use information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy unless we have obtained your prior consent.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some of our features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Information sharing
We do not share personal information with other companies or individuals except in the following limited circumstances:
* We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive information.
* We have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our site, its users or the public, as required or permitted by law.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who clicked a particular advertisement or read an article etc.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent and we expect that the majority of such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page.