Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Indie Author Lifeline, we follow 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 our site.
Indie Author Lifeline’s respects your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Indie Author Lifeline 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. Indie Author Lifeline’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Indie Author Lifeline’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Indie Author Lifeline may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Indie Author Lifeline also may collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Indie Author Lifeline 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 Indie Author Lifeline’s websites choose to interact with Indie Author Lifeline in ways that require Indie Author Lifeline to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Indie Author Lifeline 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. We also collect email addresses from those who wish to receive Indie Author Lifeline updates via email. In each case, Indie Author Lifeline collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Indie Author Lifeline. Indie Author Lifeline 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
Indie Author Lifeline may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Indie Author Lifeline may monitor its most popular pages or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Indie Author Lifeline may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Indie Author Lifeline does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Indie Author Lifeline 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 Indie Author Lifeline’s behalf or to provide services available at Indie Author Lifeline’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 Indie Author Lifeline’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Indie Author Lifeline 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, Indie Author Lifeline discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Indie Author Lifeline believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Indie Author Lifeline, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Indie Author Lifeline website and have supplied your email address, Indie Author Lifeline 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 Indie Author Lifeline 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. Indie Author Lifeline 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. Indie Author Lifeline uses cookies to help Indie Author Lifeline identify and track visitors, their usage of Indie Author Lifeline website, and their website access preferences. Indie Author Lifeline visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Indie Author Lifeline’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Indie Author Lifeline’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Indie Author Lifeline, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Indie Author Lifeline 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 Indie Author Lifeline 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 Indie Author Lifeline and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Also, Indie Author Lifeline participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a way for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to amazon.com. Some, but not all, of the posts on this blog contain links to affiliates other than Amazon. At no additional cost to you, Indie Author Lifeline may earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase after clicking any affiliate link.
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, Indie Author Lifeline may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Indie Author Lifeline’s sole discretion. Indie Author Lifeline 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.