Your privacy is critically important to us. At Fireline Hosting we have 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.
- In our website 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.
It is Fireline Hosting’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Fireline Hosting 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. Fireline Hosting’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Fireline Hosting’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Fireline Hosting may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Fireline Hosting also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Fireline Hosting 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 and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Fireline Hosting’s websites choose to interact with Fireline Hosting in ways that require Fireline Hosting to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Fireline Hosting 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 Fireline Hosting – 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, Fireline Hosting collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Fireline Hosting. Fireline Hosting 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
Fireline Hosting may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Fireline Hosting may monitor the most popular websites on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Fireline Hosting may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Fireline Hosting does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Fireline Hosting 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 Fireline Hosting’s behalf or to provide services available at Fireline Hosting’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 Fireline Hosting’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Fireline Hosting discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Fireline Hosting believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Fireline Hosting, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Fireline Hosting website and have supplied your email address, Fireline Hosting 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 Fireline Hosting and our products. 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. Fireline Hosting 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. Fireline Hosting uses cookies to help Fireline Hosting identify and track visitors, their usage of Fireline Hosting website, and their website access preferences. Fireline Hosting visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Fireline Hosting’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Fireline Hosting’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Fireline Hosting, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Fireline Hosting goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Fireline Hosting may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Fireline Hosting may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Fireline Hosting’s sole discretion. Fireline Hosting 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.
