Privacy Policy Overview
Your privacy is of utmost importance to us at Historygate. We adhere to key principles:
We only collect personal information when it is essential for our services. We avoid asking for unnecessary details, like gender or income level, unless absolutely required.
We never share your personal information except to comply with the law, enhance our services, or protect our rights.
Personal information is stored on our servers only as needed for the continued operation of our website.
Website Visitors
Like many websites, Historygate collects non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically provide, such as browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.
The purpose of collecting this data is to better understand how visitors use our websites. Occasionally, we may release this information in aggregated reports, such as trends in website usage.
Historygate also collects potentially personally-identifying information like IP addresses of logged-in users and commenters on our blogs. This information is disclosed under the same circumstances as personally-identifying information, with the exception that commenter IP addresses are visible to the blog administrators.
Collection of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to our websites choose to interact with Historygate in ways that require us to collect personally-identifying information. The type and amount of information we collect depends on the nature of the interaction.
For instance, we ask for a username and email address from those who comment on our blog, and we collect email addresses from users who wish to receive updates from us.
Historygate collects this information only as necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction. Visitors can choose not to provide personally-identifying information, though this may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Historygate may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites, such as monitoring the most popular pages or using services like Akismet to filter spam. This information may be displayed publicly or shared with others, but personally-identifying information is not disclosed except as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Historygate discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that need to know the information to process it on our behalf or to provide services on our websites, and who have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of these parties may be located outside of your home country; by using our websites, you consent to the transfer of such information.
Historygate does not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, Historygate discloses such information only in response to a legal requirement, such as a subpoena or court order, or when we believe it is necessary to protect the rights or property of Historygate, third parties, or the public.
If you are a registered user of our websites and have provided your email address, we may occasionally send you emails about new features, solicit your feedback, or keep you informed about what’s happening at Historygate.
We aim to keep these emails to a minimum, preferring to use our blogs for most communications. If you send us a request, we reserve the right to publish it to clarify or respond to your request or to help support other users.
We take all reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, which the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time they return. Historygate uses cookies to help track visitors, their usage of our websites, and their access preferences.
Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the understanding that some website features may not function properly without cookies.
Business Transfers
In the event that Historygate is acquired or substantially all of its assets are transferred, user information would be one of the assets transferred to the acquiring party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that the new owner may continue to use your personal information as outlined in this policy.
Ads
Ads displayed on our websites may be delivered 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, compiling information about you or others who use your computer.
This information allows ad networks to deliver targeted advertisements that may be of interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Historygate and does not extend to the use of cookies by advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to the Akismet anti-spam service are not stored on our servers unless they are flagged as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to improve the service and avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Historygate may update its Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion.
We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.