Your privacy is very important to us. At MyThemeGarden we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, MyThemeGarden 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. MyThemeGarden’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how MyThemeGarden’ visitors use its website.
MyThemeGarden also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. MyThemeGarden 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 MyThemeGarden’ websites choose to interact with MyThemeGarden in ways that require MyThemeGarden to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that MyThemeGarden gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive MyThemeGarden updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, MyThemeGarden collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with MyThemeGarden. MyThemeGarden 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
MyThemeGarden may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, MyThemeGarden may monitor the most popular pages on the MyThemeGarden site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. MyThemeGarden may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, MyThemeGarden does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
MyThemeGarden 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 MyThemeGarden’s behalf or to provide services available at MyThemeGarden’ websites, and (ii) 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 MyThemeGarden’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. MyThemeGarden 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, MyThemeGarden discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when MyThemeGarden believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of MyThemeGarden, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a MyThemeGarden website and have supplied your email address, MyThemeGarden 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 MyThemeGarden 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. MyThemeGarden 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. MyThemeGarden uses cookies to help MyThemeGarden identify and track visitors, their usage of the MyThemeGarden website, and their website access preferences. MyThemeGarden visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using MyThemeGarden’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of MyThemeGarden’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
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 MyThemeGarden and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, MyThemeGarden may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at MyThemeGarden’s sole discretion. MyThemeGarden 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.