Privacy Policy
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Your privacy is critically important to us. At EmeritusLiving.com we have a few fundamental principles:
In our blogging products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what is visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team. It is EmeritusLiving.com’s (“Emeritus Living”) policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. Website Visitors Like most website operators, Emeritus Living 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. Emeritus Living’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Emeritus Living’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Emeritus Living may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. Emeritus Living also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our site. Emeritus Living 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 commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the site where the comment was left. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information Certain visitors to Emeritus Living’s websites choose to interact with Emeritus Living in ways that require Emeritus Living to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Emeritus Living gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for the site at EmeritusLiving.com to provide a username and email address. For example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Emeritus Living collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Emeritus Living. Emeritus Living 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 Emeritus Living may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Emeritus Living may monitor the most popular comments on the site to help identify spam. Emeritus Living may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Emeritus Living does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information Emeritus Living 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 Emeritus Living’s behalf or to provide services available at Emeritus Living’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 Emeritus Living’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Emeritus Living 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, Emeritus Living discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Emeritus Living believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Emeritus Living, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Emeritus Living website and have supplied your email address, Emeritus Living may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what is going on with Emeritus Living 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. Emeritus Living 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. Emeritus Living uses cookies to help Emeritus Living identify and track visitors, their usage of Emeritus Living website, and their website access preferences. Emeritus Living visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Emeritus Living’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Emeritus Living’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. Business Transfers If Emeritus Living, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Emeritus Living 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 Emeritus Living 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 Emeritus Living and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Comments Comments and other content submitted 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, Emeritus Living may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Emeritus Living’s sole discretion. Emeritus Living 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. |