Website Visitors
Like most website operators, NorthShore Inline Marathon 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. NorthShore Inline Marathon’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how NorthShore Inline Marathon’s visitors use its website. From time to time, NorthShore Inline Marathon may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
NorthShore Inline Marathon also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. NorthShore Inline Marathon 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 Northshore Inline Marathon’s websites choose to interact with Northshore Inline Marathon in ways that require Northshore Inline Marathon to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Northshore Inline Marathon gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at WordPress.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Northshore Inline Marathon – by purchasing access to the Akismet 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, Northshore Inline Marathon collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Northshore Inline Marathon. Northshore Inline Marathon 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
Northshore Inline Marathon may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Northshore Inline Marathon may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Northshore Inline Marathon may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Northshore Inline Marathon does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Northshore Inline Marathon 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 Northshore Inline Marathon’s behalf or to provide services available at Northshore Inline Marathon’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 Northshore Inline Marathon’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Northshore Inline Marathon 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, Northshore Inline Marathon discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Northshore Inline Marathon believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Northshore Inline Marathon, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Northshore Inline Marathon website and have supplied your email address, Northshore Inline Marathon 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 Northshore Inline Marathon 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. Northshore Inline Marathon 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. Northshore Inline Marathon uses cookies to help Northshore Inline Marathon identify and track visitors, their usage of Northshore Inline Marathon website, and their website access preferences. Northshore Inline Marathon visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Northshore Inline Marathon’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Northshore Inline Marathon’s 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 Northshore Inline Marathon and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Northshore Inline Marathon may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Northshore Inline Marathon’s sole discretion. Northshore Inline Marathon encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.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.
If you have and any questions or concerns please contact us.