Hermit Central's Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Hermit Central 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.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Below is our privacy policy which
incorporates these goals:
Hermit Central’s policy is to respect your privacy regarding any
information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Hermit Central 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. Hermit Central’s purpose in collecting non-personally
identifying information is to better understand how Hermit Central’s
visitors use its website. From time to time, Hermit Central may release
non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by
publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Hermit Central also collects potentially personally-identifying
information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Hermit Central does
not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does
not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances
that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as
described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying
Information
Certain visitors to Hermit Central’s websites choose to interact with
Hermit Central in ways that require Hermit Central to gather
personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information
that Hermit Central gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.
For example, we ask visitors who sign up as a member or post a blog at
wordpress.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage
in transactions with Hermit Central – by purchasing products, are asked
to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal
and financial information required to process those transactions. In
each case, Hermit Central collects such information only insofar as is
necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s
interaction with Hermit Central. Hermit Central does not disclose
personally-identifying information other than as described below.
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
Hermit Central may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to
its website. For instance, Hermit Central may monitor the most popular
blogs on the associated WordPress.com site, CafePress.com site or the
Zazzle.com site. Hermit Central may display this information publicly
or provide it to others. However, Hermit Central does not disclose
personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain
Personally-Identifying Information
Hermit Central discloses potentially personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information only to those of its employees,
contractors and affiliated organizations that (1) need to know that
information in order to process it on Hermit Central’s behalf or to
provide services available at Hermit Central’s website, and (2) 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 Hermit Central’s website, you consent to the
transfer of such information to them. Hermit Central 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, Hermit Central discloses
potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying
information only when required to do so by law, or when Hermit Central
believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to
protect the property or rights of Hermit Central, third parties or the
public at large. If you are a registered user of an Hermit Central
website and have supplied your email address, Hermit Central 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
Hermit Central 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. Hermit Central 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. Hermit Central or it's
associated partners may use cookies to help Hermit Central identify and
track visitors, their usage of Hermit Central website, and their
website access preferences. Hermit Central visitors who do not wish to
have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to
refuse cookies before using Hermit Central’s website, with the drawback
that certain features of Hermit Central’s websites may not function
properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hermit Central may change
its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Hermit Central’s sole
discretion. Hermit Central encourages visitors to frequently check this
page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com
account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to
these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this
Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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