Your privacy is essential to us. At SI News Blog, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- 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.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site — SI News Blog.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, SI News Blog 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. SI News Blog’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how SI News Blog’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SI News Blog may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SI News Blog also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and users leaving comments on our blogs. SI News Blog 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 blog administrators where the comment was left.
Aggregated Statistics
SI News Blog may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. SI News Blog may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SI News Blog does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SI News Blog discloses potentially personally-identifying and non-personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information to process it on SI News Blog’s behalf. SI News Blog 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. The visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SI News Blog uses cookies to help SI News Blog identify and track visitors, their usage, and website access preferences.
Business Transfers
If SI News Blog or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that SI News Blog goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of SI News Blog may continue to use your personal information as outlined in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on 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 SI News Blog. It 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.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SI News Blog may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and at SI News Blog’s sole discretion. SI News Blog 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 the such change.