GnomeDiaries believes strongly in protecting the privacy of the personally identifiable information you share with us. We also believe it is important to inform you about how we will use your personal data, and to give you choices about how those data will be used. Therefore, we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Scope of this Privacy PolicyIn general, this Privacy Policy applies to all personal information of GnomeDiaries visitors.
Why should you share your personal data with GnomeDiaries?
Sharing your personally identifiable information enables us to offer you a number of benefits. It will make it easier and more convenient for you to:
- Submit Diary items;
- Send your gnome pictures;
- Subscribe to the GnomeDiaries newsletter;
- Request information specific to your interests;
- Participate in the online GnomeDiaries community;
- Save time by storing your preferences.
It will also allow us to improve our websites. You may choose to share your information with us in a number of ways online, such as completing an registration form to subscribe to the GnomeDiaries newsletter.
Sharing information
We want to know you better so we can serve you better. But the choice of whether you want this kind of service is up to you. If you do not want us to send you personalized newsletters, you can at all times unsubscribe.
GnomeDiaries will only share your data with third parties outside GnomeDiaries in the following circumstances:
Sometimes GnomeDiaries offers you a service in a joint marketing effort with other companies.
In such cases, your personal data will be shared with these companies. We will always let you know that such relationship exists and who these companies are prior to your registration. Note that these companies often have their own privacy policies that apply to the way they use your personal data.
These privacy policies sometimes differ from the GnomeDiaries Privacy Policy.
GnomeDiaries requires these companies to adequately safeguard your personal data and not use your data for any other purpose not authorized by GnomeDiaries. GnomeDiaries will release personally identifiable information if compelled by law.
GnomeDiaries will not sell or provide your personal data to other third parties allowing them to use your personal data for their own purposes. GnomeDiaries will not share any personal financial information you provide (such as credit card information) with other parties unless this is needed to prevent or combat fraud.
From time to time, this Web Site may provide links to other websites. You should carefully review the privacy policies on those sites; they may differ from the GnomeDiaries Privacy Policy.
“Cookies” and website logging
Some of our Web Sites will send a "cookie," a small text file, to your computer. This allows us to recognize your computer the next time you visit, without bothering you with another request to register. If you do not wish to receive cookies, please refer to the "Help" file of your Internet Browser to learn how to either block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. To learn more about cookies we encourage you to visit www.cookiecentral.com If you visit our Web Sites to browse, read, or download information, we collect and store some "visitor information" from you, such as the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using, the date and time you access our Web Site, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our Web Site. We use this information to measure the traffic on our Web Sites and to help us make our Web Sites more useful. We delete this information after some time.
Safeguarding the information you share with us
We recognize our responsibility to protect the information you entrust to us. GnomeDiaries also may make chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or newsgroups available to you. Please remember that any personally identifiable information you provide in these areas is also available to other users, and you should exercise caution before deciding to disclose it.
Your rights
Once you have provided us with your personally identifiable information, you will have reasonable access to that information so you can change or delete it. You may do this by accessing your online profile. Of course, you will always have the option to unsubscribe to any online contact from GnomeDiaries or change your personal profile information.
Getting in touch with usIf you have any questions or concerns about privacy and security, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with us, please contact gnomediaries.com, by email: help[at]gnomediaries.com
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 April 2007 )
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