Your privacy is very important to me. On Blushing Rose Diaries I have a few fundamental principles that I follow:

  • I don’t ask you for personal information unless I truly need it. (I can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • I don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect my rights.
  • I don’t store personal information on my server unless required for the on-going operation of my website.

It is Blushing Rose Diaries policy to respect your privacy regarding any information I may collect while operating my websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Blushing Rose Diaries 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. Blushing Rose Diaries purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blushing Rose Diaries visitors use its website. From time to time, Blushing Rose Diaries may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Blushing Rose Diaries also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Blushing Rose Diaries 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 Blushing Rose Diaries websites choose to interact with Blushing Rose Diaries in ways that require Blushing Rose Diaries to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Blushing Rose Diaries gathers depend 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 Blushing Rose Diaries updates via email, I collect their emails. In each case, Blushing Rose Diaries collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Blushing Rose Diaries. Blushing Rose Diaries 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

Blushing Rose Diaries may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Blushing Rose Diaries may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Blushing Rose Diaries may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blushing Rose Diaries does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Blushing Rose Diaries will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Blushing Rose Diaries discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Blushing Rose Diaries believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Blushing Rose Diaries, third parties or the public at large. Blushing Rose Diaries 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. Blushing Rose Diaries uses cookies to help Blushing Rose Diaries identify and track visitors, their usage of Blushing Rose Diaries website, and their website access preferences. Blushing Rose Diaries visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blushing Rose Diaries websites, with the drawback that certain features of Blushing Rose Diaries websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Blushing Rose Diaries or substantially all of its assets were acquired, 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 Blushing Rose Diaries 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 Blushing Rose Diaries and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links to External Websites

Blushing Rose Diaries may contain links to external sites that are not operated by me. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of every site you visit. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

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.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blushing Rose Diaries may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blushing Rose Diaries sole discretion. Blushing Rose Diaries 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.