Privacy Policy
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Your privacy is critically important to us. At Recycled Album Art and McCoy Creations we have a few fundamental principles:
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Recycled Album Art 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. Recycled Album Art’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Recycled Album Art’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Recycled Album Art may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Recycled Album Art also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on Recycled Album Art’s blog, McCoy Creations Flickr account, Photobucket account, Twitter account. Recycled Album Art 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 are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Recycled Album Art’s websites choose to interact with Recycled Album Art in ways that require Recycled Album Art to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Recycled Album Art gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, Those who engage in transactions with Recycled Album Art– by purchasing any of the handcrafted products available, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, collects such information only in so far as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Recycled Album Art . Recycled Album Art 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
Recycled Album Art may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Recycled Album Art may monitor the most popular recycled album art coaster sets on the RecycledAlbumArt.com site. Recycled Album Art may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Recycled Album Art does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Recycled Album Art discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its affiliated contractors (ie. USPS and PayPal) (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Recycled Album Art’s behalf or to provide services available at Recycled Album Art’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Recycled Album Art will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Recycled Album Art discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request.
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. Recycled Album Art uses cookies to help Recycled Album Art identify and track visitors, their usage of Recycled Album Art website, and their website access preferences. Recycled Album Art visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Recycled Album Art’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Recycled Album Art’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Recycled Album Art, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Recycled Album Art 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 Recycled Album Art may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
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 Recycled Album Art and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Recycled Album Art may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Recycled Album Art’s sole discretion. Recycled Album Art encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
- 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.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Recycled Album Art 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. Recycled Album Art’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Recycled Album Art’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Recycled Album Art may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Recycled Album Art also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on Recycled Album Art’s blog, McCoy Creations Flickr account, Photobucket account, Twitter account. Recycled Album Art 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 are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Recycled Album Art’s websites choose to interact with Recycled Album Art in ways that require Recycled Album Art to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Recycled Album Art gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, Those who engage in transactions with Recycled Album Art– by purchasing any of the handcrafted products available, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, collects such information only in so far as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Recycled Album Art . Recycled Album Art 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
Recycled Album Art may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Recycled Album Art may monitor the most popular recycled album art coaster sets on the RecycledAlbumArt.com site. Recycled Album Art may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Recycled Album Art does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Recycled Album Art discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its affiliated contractors (ie. USPS and PayPal) (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Recycled Album Art’s behalf or to provide services available at Recycled Album Art’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Recycled Album Art will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Recycled Album Art discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request.
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. Recycled Album Art uses cookies to help Recycled Album Art identify and track visitors, their usage of Recycled Album Art website, and their website access preferences. Recycled Album Art visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Recycled Album Art’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Recycled Album Art’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Recycled Album Art, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Recycled Album Art 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 Recycled Album Art may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
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 Recycled Album Art and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Recycled Album Art may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Recycled Album Art’s sole discretion. Recycled Album Art encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Automattic, Inc.
Please note we crafted our privacy policy based on Automattic Inc. privacy policy made available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means that it is permissible to "steal it" and "re-purpose it". The user has permission to modify the statement to tailor it to meet their needs. Automatic would appreciate a link to Automattic.com somewhere on your site.
Taken from the Automattic, Inc webpage: "Automattic Inc. is a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place. We are strong believers in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under licenses like the GPL. We work from places all around the world. Automattic first got started around August of 2005, and has since grown to include the fine people you see here."
Automattic Inc. (“Automattic”) operates several websites including automattic.com, wordpress.com, gravatar.com, intensedebate.com, and akismet.com.
Taken from the Automattic, Inc webpage: "Automattic Inc. is a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place. We are strong believers in Open Source and the vast majority of our work is available under licenses like the GPL. We work from places all around the world. Automattic first got started around August of 2005, and has since grown to include the fine people you see here."
Automattic Inc. (“Automattic”) operates several websites including automattic.com, wordpress.com, gravatar.com, intensedebate.com, and akismet.com.
