Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At simon Northouse we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • 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 or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, simon Northouse 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. simon Northouse's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Simon Northouse’s visitors use its website.

Simon Northouse also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Simon Northouse 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 Simon Northouse’s websites choose to interact with Simon Northouse in ways that require Simon Northouse to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Simon Northouse gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive simon Northouse updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Simon Northouse collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Simon Northouse. Simon Northouse 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

Simon Northouse may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Simon Northouse may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. However, Simon Northouse does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Simon Northouse will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Simon Northouse discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Simon Northouse believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Simon Northouse, third parties or the public at large. If you supplied your email address, Simon Northouse may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new books, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Simon Northouse. We primarily use our various 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. Simon Northouse 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. Simon Northouse uses cookies to help Simon Northouse identify and track visitors, their usage of Simon Northouse website, and their website access preferences. Simon Northouse visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Simon Northouse’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Simon Northouse’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Simon Northouse, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Simon Northouse 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 Simon Northouse may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet 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, Simon Northouse may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Simon Northouse’s sole discretion. Simon Northouse 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.

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