Local Town Blogs - Privacy

Local Town Blogs

�         1. Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to Local Town Blogs. This statement describes Local Town Blogs privacy practices for its own Web site, as well as the Web sites Local Town Blogs hosts for its customers, including what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared. This privacy statement does not disclose how Local Town Blogs customers use data collected on Web sites that Local Town Blogs hosts for them.

�         2. Personal Information
You can visit LocalTownBlogs.com or any Local Town Blogs hosted Web site without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. However, to access certain portions of the Web site, you may have to submit information such as user-id and password, or to access some services we provide, you may have to give us personal information such as your name and address and e-mail.  To access our services, we may ask you for your address and age information.

�         3. Information security and quality
We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personally identifiable information. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures to help keep your information secure, accurate, current, and complete.

�         4. Web site traffic information
When you arrive at any Local Town Blogs hosted Web site, we automatically receive the Web address of the site that you came from. We also collect information on which pages of our Web site you visit while you are on our hosted site, the type of browser you use and the times you access our hosted sites. We use this information only to try to better understand visitor preferences and to manage the load on our servers.

�         5. Cookies
We sometimes use cookies to collect anonymous information from visits to our sites to help us provide better service. We may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service, but we do so in ways that keep the information anonymous. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, however, some areas of some sites may not function properly.

�         6. Disclosure to third parties
We will only share personally identifiable information with a third party if and when the individual submitting this information has permitted us to do so, or if we are required by law to do so.

�         7. Email tools
Local Town Blogs offers its customers sophisticated email marketing tools. Local Town Blogs itself adheres to a strict anti-spam policy, making it easy for subscribers to unsubscribe. Local Town Blogs also provides Web site visitors who have created an account with email marketing tools.

�         8. Personalized Web pages
Local Town Blogs enables its customers to allow their constituents to create personalized Web pages. Local Town Blogs also enables customers to allow constituents to create Web content (including email) that bring visitors to these personalized Web pages. Such personal Web pages as well as the customer associated with these pages are readily identifiable. By clicking on a link and going to a personal Web page you are agreeing to let Local Town Blogs collect information about your session visits. We use this information, and also provide it to our customers, for aggregate statistical analysis only. If a visitor provides personal information on these Web pages, then we make this information available only to the customer associated with the pages.

9. Links to Other Web Sites
Local Town Blogs hosted sites contain links to other Web sites. Local Town Blogs is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

 

How do I create a private entry?

If you want to to be the only person to read certain entries, you should mark them as "private" when you save them. All other internet users (including yourself if you are not logged in) will not be able to read these entries.
 

Can I share my blog with others?

Yes, you can create a "Teamblog" with a defined group of people, who are allowed to be authors and create entries in your blog.
 

Am I automatically listed in any search engines?

Yes. Google will automatically find and classify your weblog. Your weblog can also be found via an internal Local Town Blogs fulltext or member search.

See also:
» Orientation on Local Town Blogs
 

How to prevent certain people from contacting me

As long as you don't mention your email address in any of your entries, nobody has access to your email address via Local Town Blogs. You can also deactivate the feature "send me an email" on your "about me" page. Select "My account" > "Contact data" and choose the appropriate setting for "Contact me by e-mail".
You don't have to allow comments on your entries. Also, you can deny access to specific users and allow comments from registered users only. br />
See also:
» Should I allow comments or not?

 

I'm being bombarded with spam

Since we do not publish your email address, you must have displayed your email address somewhere yourself.
In order to make sure you're not displaying your email address on your weblog, be sure not to mention it in one of your entries. You should also check email links, because email spammers have the technical ability to identify email addresses which are contained in links. Be extra careful whenever you enter your email address, because once a spammer has registered your address there is nothing you can do about it.
 

I keep getting upsetting and annoying comments

If you receive disturbing or annoying comments from a specific person, the first step is to ask the user to stop commenting on your blog. If that doesn't work, you should consider banning the user's comments in your weblog. In the worst case, you can contact us. Send us an email with the username of the person, the kind of comments that person makes, the time period that it happens and the frequency of the comments.

See also:
» Should I allow comments or not?