At ThinkPost, we realize that privacy is important and we work to always protect our members' data. Information you share with us is used for ThinkPost's internal business purposes. ThinkPost is not in the business of selling information about you. This notice tells you what information we collect, steps we take to protect and secure it, how we use and share the information, and finally, how you can access that information or contact us with questions or concerns.
Information We Gather
ThinkPost stores and maintains your account information and copies of your blog posts and comments, including drafts, in order to provide the service
ThinkPost asks for some personal information when you sign up to use ThinkPost, use ThinkPost products or services available on the ThinkPost Site (the "Service") or post content on a ThinkPost Blog site as a guest with authoring rights, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
ThinkPost may also collect personal information you provide to us when you enter any promotions or sweepstakes offered on the ThinkPost site.
ThinkPost may aggregate your information with information from other users (without personally identifying you) and share it with our business partners or others.
ThinkPost may also collect information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners. This information might include information necessary to process payments due to us from you such as your credit card number.
ThinkPost servers automatically record information about your use of the service, such as when you use ThinkPost and the frequency and size of data transfers. Information displayed or clicked in the ThinkPost interface (including UI elements, settings, and other information) is also recorded. If you are logged in we may associate that information with your account.
ThinkPost automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, the pages you request, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Information We Gather
You can change your ThinkPost account settings, including your profile information, at any time in the Settings section of ThinkPost. You can edit, save drafts and remove your blog posts at any time.
If you delete your blog, we will remove all posts from public view. Because of the way we maintain this service, residual copies of your profile information and other information associated with your account may remain on back-up media.
How we use IP Address Information
ThinkPost may occasionally obtain IP addresses from users depending upon how you access our web site. IP addresses, browser and session information may be used for various purposes, including to:
Diagnose and prevent service or technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
Estimate the total number of users visiting ThinkPost from specific geographical regions.
Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content, services or resources that we offer.
Monitor and prevent fraud and abuse.
Deliver more relevant advertisements to you.
How we use Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set, however, if you configure your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to use ThinkPost products or services that require you to "sign in" and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings on the ThinkPost site.
We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends
ThinkPost uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
Require you to re-enter your ThinkPost password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents.
Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using ThinkPost's services.
Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
Conduct research to improve ThinkPost's content and services.
ThinkPost lets other entities that show advertisements on some of our web pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, and not this policy. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to ThinkPost's cookies.
How we Use, Share and Disclose Information We Collect
ThinkPost does not share personal information we learn about you from your use of the Service or this web site with others except as described in this policy. We do not share your information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
When you provide personal information through using the Service you are however sharing your personal information with ThinkPost, organizations that may hold a majority interest in ThinkPost, their divisions or subsidiaries and, ThinkPost and any of its divisions or subsidiaries. The use of your personal information by these organizations is subject to this policy.
We do not share your information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, ThinkPost may display targeted advertisements based on personally non-identifiable information (such as browser type and IP address) and/or personal selection (See the Section entitled "Third Party Advertising" below for more information on how your information is shared with advertisers).
ThinkPost may use your personal information where it is necessary for us to complete a transaction, to operate or improve ThinkPost and related products and services, to do something that you have asked us to do, or tell you of products and services that we think may be of interest.
ThinkPost may use your email address to contact you with required email messages about the Service.
Where you are contacted with an offer or service based on information you have shared with ThinkPost, we will do our best to provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of receiving such further communications at the time you are contacted.
When you post a message, your ThinkPost ID or alias that you are posting under may be visible to other users.
When you post a message on ThinkPost Blog Sites, you have the ability to post a message which may include personally identifiable information about yourself; consequently, you should understand that if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return, and we cannot be responsible for the use of any information you post publicly.
We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to ThinkPost in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
ThinkPost does or may share personally identifiable information about you under the following circumstances:
In the course of operating our business it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your personal information to others such as our service providers, contractors and select vendors so that we can operate the Service and our business. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this policy and that limit others' use or disclosure of the information you have shared.
We may transfer personal information to certain advertising partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
We may share your personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, if in our judgment, disclosure is required or appropriate in such circumstances.
We may share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ThinkPost's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
As we continue to develop our business, we might also sell all or part of our business. In such transactions, personally identifiable information you have shared with us is generally one of the business assets that may be transferred. The transferred personally identifiable information will remain subject to the promises made in this privacy policy or subsequent policies to which you have consented.
ThinkPost processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
If there is ever a change to how ThinkPost uses or intends to use personal information, we will post that change to this policy and, if the new policy is materially less restrictive than this policy, we will seek your consent.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements appearing on ThinkPost may be delivered to users by ThinkPost or one of our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, advertising partners (or "ad networks") may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by ThinkPost and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
ThinkPost does not share any personally identifiable information with advertisers. ThinkPost may share general demographic information (such as information about members' aggregate interests and occupations) and non-personally identifiable information (such as browser type and IP addresses) with advertisers and partners. If you have a Plus account or are a Basic or Early Adopter account viewing a Plus account's journal or other content, ThinkPost shares your voluntarily-provided public profile information (such as sex, age, location and interests) and your voluntarily-provided advertising preferences information with advertisers. ThinkPost does not give advertisers access to your private personal account information (such as email address, or, if you have elected to make these private or friends-only in your profile, sex and location). However, by selecting, interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
Confidentiality and Security
No data transmissions over the Internet or via wireless networks can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make efforts to ensure security on our systems.
We use physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
Your ThinkPost Account Information is password-protected.
In certain areas, ThinkPost uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software.
If ThinkPost learns of a security systems breach we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps, however, we will never ask you to submit additional personal information or to verify the status of or information related to your account in any electronic communication email. By using this web site or providing personal information to us you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of this site. ThinkPost may post a notice on our web site if a security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a web browser enabling you to view the ThinkPost.com web site. ThinkPost may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances, however, we will never ask you to submit additional personal information or to verify the status of or information related to your account in any such email. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us at webmaster@ThinkPost.com.
Changing your Preferences and Personal Information
You can edit your ThinkPost Account Information at any time. Most personal information you may provide is entirely optional. You can delete your ThinkPost account by visiting our Account Deletion page; however, please note that some personal information, primarily your contact information, may remain in ThinkPost's records to the extent necessary to protect ThinkPost's legal interests or document compliance with regulatory requirements.
Contacting ThinkPost
If you have a privacy concern regarding ThinkPost, or this policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the use of this web site, you should then write to us by email to webmaster@ThinkPost.com.
If you object to any sharing of your personal information that may be permitted under this policy, you may do so by writing us at the above email address. We will take reasonable steps to accommodate your requests as they relate to our advertising practices. In some instances, honoring your requests may interfere with or preclude your ability to use the Service or may require us to terminate our relationship with you.
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