Privacy Policy
Valued Visitors
Like most website operators, Positive Mind Company 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. Positive Mind Company’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Positive Mind Company’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Positive Mind Company may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Positive Mind Company also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on its blogs. Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company’s websites choose to interact with Positive Mind Company in ways that require Positive Mind Company to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Positive Mind Company gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Positive Mind Company are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Positive Mind Company collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the
visitor’s interaction with Positive Mind Company. Positive Mind Company 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
Positive Mind Company may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Positive Mind Company may monitor its blogs on the site to help identify spam. Positive Mind Company may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Positive Mind Company does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company’s behalf or to provide services available at Positive Mind Company’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 Positive Mind Company’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Positive Mind Company 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, Positive Mind Company discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Positive Mind Company believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Positive Mind Company, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Positive Mind Company website and have supplied your email address, Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company 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. Positive Mind Company 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. Positive Mind Company uses cookies to help Positive Mind Company identify and track visitors, their usage of Positive Mind Company website, and their website access preferences. Positive Mind Company visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Positive Mind Company’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Positive Mind Company’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Positive Mind Company, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Positive Mind Company may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Positive Mind Company’s sole discretion. Positive Mind Company 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.
Special thanks to Automattic.com
Change log:
February 1, 2011: Clarified subpoena language and added Business Transfers paragraph
January 3, 2011: Added court order and subpoena clarification
July 1, 2010: Revised paragraph about IP addresses to explain when they are collected and that commenter IPs are visible to blog administrators
Like most website operators, Positive Mind Company 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. Positive Mind Company’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Positive Mind Company’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Positive Mind Company may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Positive Mind Company also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on its blogs. Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company’s websites choose to interact with Positive Mind Company in ways that require Positive Mind Company to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Positive Mind Company gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Positive Mind Company are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Positive Mind Company collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the
visitor’s interaction with Positive Mind Company. Positive Mind Company 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
Positive Mind Company may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Positive Mind Company may monitor its blogs on the site to help identify spam. Positive Mind Company may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Positive Mind Company does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company’s behalf or to provide services available at Positive Mind Company’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 Positive Mind Company’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Positive Mind Company 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, Positive Mind Company discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Positive Mind Company believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Positive Mind Company, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Positive Mind Company website and have supplied your email address, Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company 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. Positive Mind Company 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. Positive Mind Company uses cookies to help Positive Mind Company identify and track visitors, their usage of Positive Mind Company website, and their website access preferences. Positive Mind Company visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Positive Mind Company’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Positive Mind Company’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Positive Mind Company, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company 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 Positive Mind Company and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Positive Mind Company may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Positive Mind Company’s sole discretion. Positive Mind Company 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.
Special thanks to Automattic.com
Change log:
February 1, 2011: Clarified subpoena language and added Business Transfers paragraph
January 3, 2011: Added court order and subpoena clarification
July 1, 2010: Revised paragraph about IP addresses to explain when they are collected and that commenter IPs are visible to blog administrators