Introduction
At bloggingdorsetblogs.com we take your privacy seriously as described in the policy statement below. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please use our contact form and we will do our utmost to help.
This privacy policy will be reviewed, and may be revised, from time to time. You may wish to revisit it regularly.
General
This site is largely for informational purposes and collects no more data about you than the majority of other web sites or blogs that you may visit elsewhere on the Internet.
Comments, Track-backs, and Ping-backs of a general nature discussing the content of an article post normally will be published as long as they relate reasonably to the objectives and content of this web site.
Email addresses, whether provided as part of a comment or otherwise, will not be published.
Comments that are, at our discretion, published generally will become a permanent part of this site. If you make a decision to comment, link, or ping-back to a post, please bear this in mind.
Author Personal Identification
When posting a comment or completing our content form, a name and email address are required. You do not have to use your real name and your email address will never be published.
Comments, track-backs, and ping-backs will be identified by your IP address. These numbers could potentially be traceable to identifying information about you at your home or work ISP account where the IP address is registered. Your IP address could potentially be used in conjunction with other data to identify you.
If you are worried about any attempt to match your IP address to your identity, you may prefer to use an anonymous browsing service or some other means to conceal your real IP address.
Cookies
This site uses cookies when you comment or use the contact form. This is a convenience to users so the same information doesn’t have to be retyped the next time you comment or complete the contact form.
You may wish to clear these cookies and the browser cache if you wish to refrain from revealing any identifying information, particularly on a public or shared computer.
Users of this website may disable the acceptance of cookies in their web browser.
Logging of visits
When you visit a web page, you generally send quite a lot of information to the host server. The web servers that host this site maintain access logs with the information that you send. This information is used to provide site statistics and to get an idea of popular pages and what sites link to this web site. We do not intend to use these logs to personally identify legitimate users.
The data logged may be used by us to solve technical problems with the site and, in cases of abuse of this site, to investigate the abuse.
If you are worried about attempts to match your IP address to your identity, you may prefer to use an anonymous browsing service or some alternative means to conceal your real IP address.
Circumstances where we might have to release data
Our policy is to only release the data we collect in the following circumstances:
* As required by law, such as in response to a valid legal request.
* To designated third parties in relation to complaints.
* When the information refers to spiders or bots, when investigating technical issues.
* For abusive users, we may release information to assist in attempting to block the abusive user or to complain to that user’s Internet Service Provider.
* If necessary to defend legal claims against us.
* When we consider it necessary to protect the property or rights of our user community, or this website.
We will not sell any information
We will not sell any information collected via this site, such as your email address, to third parties under any circumstance.
Public Data and Publishing
Browsing this site does not reveal your personal identity publicly.
Security of information
We make no guarantee that the information that you provide us will be secure.
Links
While bloggingdorsetblogs.com is highly selective about which sites we provide links to, we do not control these web sites, nor do we endorse or otherwise accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on third party sites.
