Privacy Policy

• We don't ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• 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.

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Steven Paul Design 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. Steven Paul Design’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Steven Paul Design’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Steven Paul Design may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Steven Paul Design also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Steven Paul Design 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 Steven Paul Design’s websites choose to interact with Steven Paul Design in ways that require Steven Paul Design to gather personally-identifying information.  Steven Paul Design 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
Steven Paul Design may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Steven Paul Design may monitor the most popular searches in our collection or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Steven Paul Design may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Steven Paul Design does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Steven Paul Design 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 Steven Paul Design’s behalf or to provide services available at Steven Paul Design’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 Steven Paul Design’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Steven Paul Design 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, Steven Paul Design discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Steven Paul Design believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Steven Paul Design, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Steven Paul Design website and have supplied your email address, Steven Paul Design 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 Steven Paul Design 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. Steven Paul Design 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. We uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of Steven Paul Design website, and their website access preferences. Steven Paul Design visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Steven Paul Design’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Steven Paul Design’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 Steven Paul Design and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Steven Paul Design may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Steven Paul Design’s sole discretion. Steven Paul Design 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.

Last updated: 4/2010