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Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At WAKINGWOLF.COM 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. (For example: we don’t ask for financial information unless you are purchasing our services.)
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
WAKINGWOLF.COM (“WAKINGWOLF.COM”) operates several websites including wakingwolf.com and others. It is WAKINGWOLF.COM’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
WEBSITE VISITORS
Like most website operators, WAKINGWOLF.COM 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. WAKINGWOLF.COM’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how WAKINGWOLF.COM’s visitors use its website. From time to time, WAKINGWOLF.COM may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
WAKINGWOLF.COM also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. WAKINGWOLF.COM 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 WAKINGWOLF.COM’s websites choose to interact with WAKINGWOLF.COM in ways that require WAKINGWOLF.COM to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that WAKINGWOLF.COM gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask website visitors to provide nothing unless they are interested in a service of ours. Those who engage in transactions with WAKINGWOLF.COM – by purchasing access to our hosting services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, WAKINGWOLF.COM collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with WAKINGWOLF.COM. WAKINGWOLF.COM 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 hosting-related activities.
AGGREGATED STATISTICS
WAKINGWOLF.COM may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, WAKINGWOLF.COM may monitor the most popular sites on our service or use tracking software to monitor client accounts. WAKINGWOLF.COM may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, WAKINGWOLF.COM does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
WAKINGWOLF.COM 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 WAKINGWOLF.COM’s behalf or to provide services available at WAKINGWOLF.COM’s websites, 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 WAKINGWOLF.COM’s websites or services, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. WAKINGWOLF.COM 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, WAKINGWOLF.COM discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when WAKINGWOLF.COM believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of WAKINGWOLF.COM, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a WAKINGWOLF.COM website and have supplied your email address, WAKINGWOLF.COM 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 WAKINGWOLF.COM and our products. We primarily use our website 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. WAKINGWOLF.COM 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. WAKINGWOLF.COM uses cookies to help WAKINGWOLF.COM identify and track visitors, their usage of WAKINGWOLF.COM website(s), and their website access preferences. WAKINGWOLF.COM visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using WAKINGWOLF.COM’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of WAKINGWOLF.COM’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, WAKINGWOLF.COM may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in WAKINGWOLF.COM’s sole discretion. WAKINGWOLF.COM 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.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
Occasionally, we may use third-party services in order to provide information or services to you. By using those services, you may be subject to different Terms of Use or Privacy Policies in addition to these. As a convenience to our visitors, please find links to these policies below. Please note: WAKINGWOLF.COM does not own or control these services, and as such cannot be held responsible for your use of these outside services.
- PayPal Privacy Policy
- FeedBurner (Google) Privacy Policy
THANKS
A great deal of this Privacy Policy was “borrowed” from WordPress.com and is legally available via a Creative Commons Sharealike license. We here at WAKINGWOLF.COM heart WordPress.