Your privacy is critically important to us. Personally identifiable information is collected on our web site only when voluntarily provided by the user.
The Global Journal has 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.
- We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what's visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
The Global Journal's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Like most website operators, The Global Journal's 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.The Global Journal's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Global Journalvisitors use its website. From time to time, The Global Journal may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Global Journal's also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We don't 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.
Certain visitors to The Global Journal's website choose to interact with The Global Journal in ways that require it to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Global Journal gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at http://theglobaljournal.net/ to provide a username and email address. In each case, The Global Journal collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with The Global Journal
.The Global Journal 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.
The Global Journal may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Global Journal may display this information publicly or provide it to others. The Global Journal may disclose personally-identifying information when you read articles on The Global Journal , as a registered member.
The Global Journal discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information when you read articles on the website (as a reader). Otherwise The Global Journal 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 onThe Global Journal's behalf or to provide services available at The Global Journal'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 The Global Journal's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Global Journal 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, The Global Journal discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Global Journal believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Global Journal , third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Global Journal website and have supplied your email address,The Global Journal 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 The Global Journal 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. The Global Journal takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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. The Global Journal uses cookies to help The Global Journal identify and track visitors, their usage of The Global Journal website, and their website access preferences. The Global Journal's visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Global Journal website, with the drawback that certain features of The Global Journal website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Global Journal may change their Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Global Journal's sole discretion. The Global Journal encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a The Global Journal account, you should also check your blog's dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
This policy is a modified version of the policy available by Automattic under the Creative Commons Sharealike license. You're welcome to use this version under the same license.
If you have questions or concerns about The Global Journal's Privacy Policy, please contact us at team(at)theglobaljournal.net.
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