Privacy
- 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.
- In our blogging products, 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.
Ron Paul Blogs (“or RPB”) operates several websites including ronpaulblogs.com and likesblogs.com. It is RPB’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Ron Paul Blogs 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. Ron Paul Blogs’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Ron Paul Blogs’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Ron Paul Blogs may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Ron Paul Blogs also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Ron Paul Blogs 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 Ron Paul Blogs’s websites choose to interact with Ron Paul Blogs in ways that require Ron Paul Blogs to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Ron Paul Blogs gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at ronpaulblogs.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Ron Paul Blogs – by purchasing access to the comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Ron Paul Blogs collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Ron Paul Blogs. Ron Paul Blogs 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
Ron Paul Blogs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Ron Paul Blogs may monitor the most popular blogs on the ronpaulblogs.com site or use spam screened by the spam service to help identify spam. Ron Paul Blogs may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Ron Paul Blogs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Ron Paul Blogs 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 Ron Paul Blogs’s behalf or to provide services available at Ron Paul Blogs’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 Ron Paul Blogs’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Ron Paul Blogs 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, Ron Paul Blogs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Ron Paul Blogs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Ron Paul Blogs, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Ron Paul Blogs website and have supplied your email address, Ron Paul Blogs 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 Ron Paul Blogs 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. Ron Paul Blogs 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. Ron Paul Blogs uses cookies to help Ron Paul Blogs identify and track visitors, their usage of Ron Paul Blogs website, and their website access preferences. Ron Paul Blogs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Ron Paul Blogs’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Ron Paul Blogs’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Ron Paul Blogs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Ron Paul Blogs’s sole discretion. Ron Paul Blogs encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a ronpaulblogs.com 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.
