Privacy Policy
Effective 1/07 until amended
Your privacy is critically important to us. At SMILING PEANUT 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:
SMILING PEANUT LLC (“SMILING PEANUT”) operates several websites including smilingpeanut.com and others. It is SMILING PEANUT’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
WEBSITE VISITORS
Like most website operators, SMILING PEANUT 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. SMILING PEANUT’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SMILING PEANUT’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SMILING PEANUT may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SMILING PEANUT also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. SMILING PEANUT 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 SMILING PEANUT’s websites choose to interact with SMILING PEANUT in ways that require SMILING PEANUT to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SMILING PEANUT 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 SMILING PEANUT – 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, SMILING PEANUT collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SMILING PEANUT. SMILING PEANUT 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
SMILING PEANUT may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, SMILING PEANUT may monitor the most popular sites on our service or use tracking software to monitor client accounts. SMILING PEANUT may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SMILING PEANUT does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
SMILING PEANUT 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 SMILING PEANUT’s behalf or to provide services available at SMILING PEANUT’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 SMILING PEANUT’s websites or services, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SMILING PEANUT 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, SMILING PEANUT discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when SMILING PEANUT believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SMILING PEANUT, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a SMILING PEANUT website and have supplied your email address, SMILING PEANUT 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 SMILING PEANUT 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. SMILING PEANUT 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. SMILING PEANUT uses cookies to help SMILING PEANUT identify and track visitors, their usage of SMILING PEANUT website(s), and their website access preferences. SMILING PEANUT visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SMILING PEANUT’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SMILING PEANUT’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SMILING PEANUT may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SMILING PEANUT’s sole discretion. SMILING PEANUT 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.
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 SMILING PEANUT heart WordPress. 