Your privacy is critically important to us. At SourcedFrom 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.
- We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what entries are visible to the public or have been permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
It is SourcedFrom's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating this website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, SourcedFrom 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. SourcedFrom's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SourcedFrom's visitors use its website. From time to time, SourcedFrom may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SourcedFrom also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. SourcedFrom 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 SourcedFrom's websites choose to interact with SourcedFrom in ways that require SourcedFrom to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SourcedFrom gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account and to provide a username and email address. In each case, SourcedFrom collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with SourcedFrom. SourcedFrom also collects information about SourcedFrom users or non-users regarding entries which have been re-published. A referral link to the re-published entry, date time stamp and number of unique visitors (non-personally-identifying) of that re-published entry are recoded for the benefit of the entries original Author as well as the user who re-published the entry, SourcedFrom and any visitors to the SourcedFrom website. The original Author may control whether these statistics are displayed publicly on the SourcedFrom website. SourcedFrom does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described. 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
SourcedFrom may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, SourcedFrom may monitor the most popular entries on our site. SourcedFrom may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SourcedFrom does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SourcedFrom 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 SourcedFrom's behalf or to provide services available at SourcedFrom'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 SourcedFrom's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SourcedFrom 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, SourcedFrom discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when SourcedFrom believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SourcedFrom, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of SourcedFrom's website and have supplied your email address, SourcedFrom 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 SourcedFrom 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. SourcedFrom 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. SourcedFrom uses cookies to help SourcedFrom identify and track visitors, their usage of the SourcedFrom website, and their website access preferences. SourcedFrom visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SourcedFrom's websites, with the drawback that certain features of SourcedFrom's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SourcedFrom may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SourcedFrom's sole discretion. SourcedFrom 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.
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