- 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 our site.
It is The Story Remains Website’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Story Remains Website 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. The Story Remains Website’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Story Remains Website’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Story Remains Website may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Story Remains Website also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Story Remains Website 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 The Story Remains Website choose to interact with The Story Remains Website in ways that require The Story Remains Website to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Story Remains Website gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive The Story Remains Website email newsletter, we collect their emails. In each case, The Story Remains Website collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Story Remains Website. The Story Remains Website 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
The Story Remains Website may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Story Remains Website may monitor the most popular pages on the thestoryremains.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Story Remains Website may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Story Remains Website does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Story Remains Website 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 The Story Remains Website’s behalf or to provide services available at The Story Remains Website, 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 The Story Remains Website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Story Remains Website 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, The Story Remains Website discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Story Remains Website believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Story Remains Website, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Story Remains Website and have supplied your email address, The Story Remains Website 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 The Story Remains Website and our products and services. 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. The Story Remains Website 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. The Story Remains Website uses cookies to help The Story Remains Website identify and track visitors, their usage of The Story Remains Website, and their website access preferences. The Story Remains Website’s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Story Remains Website, with the drawback that certain features of The Story Remains Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If The Story Remains Website, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Story Remains Website 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 The Story Remains Website 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 The Story Remains Website and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to 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.
Social Login
The Story Remains Website collects your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time from your profile page at our website or by sending us an email.
Facebook Comments
The Story Remains Website embeds Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at The Story Remains Website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Story Remains Website may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Story Remains Website’s sole discretion. The Story Remains Website 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.
User Data Deletion Instructions
Click on Edit Profile Link from the “Howdy Member” pull-down in the member toolbar to access your user profile page,
At the bottom of the user profile page, you will see a Delete Account button.
Alternatively, you can click on the “Delete Account” link in the footer.
In both cases follow the prompt to verify deletion of your account, data, content, and comments.