Privacy Policy

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Global Enterprise Disaster Restoration (GEDR) 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. GEDR’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how GEDR’s visitors use its website. From time to time, GEDR may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

GEDR also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on blogs. GEDR 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 GEDR’s websites choose to interact with GEDR in ways that require GEDR to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that GEDR gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with GEDR – by purchasing access to the comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, GEDR collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with GEDR. GEDR 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

GEDR may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, GEDR may monitor the most popular blogs on the site or use spam screened by the service to help identify spam. GEDR may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, GEDR does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

GEDR discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on GEDR’s behalf or to provide services available at GEDR’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using GEDR’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. GEDR will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, GEDR discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when GEDR believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GEDR, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an GEDR website and have supplied your email address, GEDR may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with GEDR and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. GEDR takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. GEDR uses cookies to help GEDR identify and track visitors, their usage of GEDR website, and their website access preferences. GEDR visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using GEDR’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of GEDR’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If GEDR, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that GEDR 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 GEDR 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 GEDR and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, GEDR may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in GEDR’s sole discretion. GEDR encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.