Privacy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

At ProudCity 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 the ProudCity Platform, 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:

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us at [email protected].

ProudCity Inc. (ProudCity) operates ProudCity.com. It is ProudCity’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website visitors

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

ProudCity also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our platform. ProudCity 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 ProudCity’s websites choose to interact with ProudCity in ways that require ProudCity to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that ProudCity gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, ProudCity collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with ProudCity. ProudCity 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

ProudCity may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, ProudCity may monitor the most popular pages on the GetProudCity.com  site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. ProudCity may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, ProudCity does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of certain personally-identifying information

ProudCity 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 ProudCity’s behalf or to provide services available at ProudCity’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 ProudCity’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. ProudCity 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, ProudCity discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when ProudCity believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ProudCity, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a ProudCity website and have supplied your email address, ProudCity 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 ProudCity 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. ProudCity 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. ProudCity uses cookies to help ProudCity identify and track visitors, their usage of ProudCity website, and their website access preferences. ProudCity visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using ProudCity’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of ProudCity’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If ProudCity, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that ProudCity 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 ProudCity may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, ProudCity may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in ProudCity’s sole discretion. ProudCity encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a ProudCity account, you should also check your 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.

*Thank you Automattic for the Creative Commons Privacy Policy.