Your privacy is critically important to us. At Savingist.com 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 blogging 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.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: (Note, we’ve decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to Savingist.com somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn’t need to do the same.)
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.
Savingist.com (“Savingist”) operates several websites including Savingist.com. It is Savingist’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Savingist 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. Savingist’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Savingist’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Savingist may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Savingist also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Savingist 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 Savingist’s websites choose to interact with Savingist in ways that require Savingist to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Savingist 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 Savingist – 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, Savingist collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Savingist. Savingist 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.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Savingist 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 Savingist’s behalf or to provide services available at Savingist’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 Savingist’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Savingist 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, Savingist discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Savingist believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Savingist, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Savingist website and have supplied your email address, Savingist 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 Savingist 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. Savingist 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. Savingist uses cookies to help Savingist identify and track visitors, their usage of Savingist website, and their website access preferences. Savingist visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Savingist’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Savingist’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 Savingist and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Savingist may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Savingist’s sole discretion. Savingist encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.