LettersFromLeavers.com greatly respects your privacy and we hope that our users feel that the information they share with us is 100% secure and private. Here are the guidelines we follow at LettersFromLeavers to ensure your privacy and our integrity:
Registration
In order to use this website to the full potential, we highly recommend that you complete the registration process (this is required to write blog entries and blog comments). During registration, a user is required to give their e-mail address, nickname, and other optional identifiers. This information is to identify the user, and for other users to interact with the user. None of this information will be sold, transmitted, or in any other way sent to any third parties. You also may be asked for your location, instant messenger names, etc, but these are only optional and you may leave them empty. The administrators of LettersFromLeavers.com will use your email address only for official communication with you regarding your use of the site.
Cookies
Cookies are used to identify the user when he/she logs in, and for tracking purposes. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. More specifically, we use cookies on LettersFromLeavers.com so that the user does not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site.
Passwords
The LettersFromLeavers.com staff will NEVER ask for your password. If someone does ask for your password or other info, please immediately notify us. When you register, you are responsible for your password. If at any time you forget your password, then notify the site administrator, and we will reset your password and email a new password to the email address you provided during registration. You should always create a new password when accessing your account profile for the first time after registration or upon having your password reset.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information of any kind.
Contribution to the Blog
The content on LettersFromLeavers.com is dependent on users voluntarily contributing stories to the blog, and in most cases, these stories are highly personal. Such contributions are solicited by us, but they are submitted and published on our site completely by the will and actions of the user (author). During registration, it is your option to use a pseudonym in order to maintain your privacy and conceal your personal identity. Blog entries may be used by the LettersFromLeavers.com creators (Jason Loftis and Tim Bower) as a resource during our research for our theological education, and blog entries may be cited and/or reprinted in our course work, but the personal identities of authors will never be disclosed. LettersFromLeavers.com is a publicly available domain on the world wide web, and therefore, any entries you make to our site are widely available for others to read. Furthermore, we cannot control the syndication of your submitted content by other sites that choose to link to our site or copy and reprint your writings elsewhere. If you come across writing you submitted to this site elsewhere, and you object to its use there, please let us know, and we will do everything in our power to represent your wishes to that site’s administrators.
Comments on the Blog
All submissions using the comment function of the LettersFromLeavers.com blog are subject to the same guidelines described above regarding contributed blog entries themselves.
Surveys, Polls, etc.
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or polls. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that LettersFromLeavers.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will email all registered users and make them aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
Final Notes
LettersFromLeavers.com will never, under any circumstances, give away or publicly display your IP address. Additionally, LettersFromLeavers.com will never sell or transmit e-mail addresses or any other personal identifiers to 3rd parties. Use of the registration system is optional; however it does maximize the user’s experience here at the site.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please do not hesitate to Contact the site’s administrator using our contact form. Thank you for your cooperation.
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