Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us at Authora Inc., and we have a few fundamental principles:
? 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, customize sales quotes with our resellers, develop our products, or protect our rights.
? We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our services.
? In our support HelpDesk, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s 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.
Authora Inc. (“Authora Inc.”) operates several websites including authora.com. It is Authora's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Authora 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. Authora’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Authora’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Authora may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Authora also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our HelpDesk or our blogs. Authora 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 Authora’s websites choose to interact with Authora in ways that require Authora to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Authora gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a our HelpDesk support to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Authora – by purchasing our software or 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, Authora collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Authora. Authora 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
Authora may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Authora may monitor the most popular blogs on the HelpDesk site to help identify spam. Authora may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Authora does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Authora 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 Authora’s behalf or to provide services available at Authora’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 Authora’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Authora 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, Authora discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Authora believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Authora, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Authora website and have supplied your email address, Authora 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 Authora 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. Authora 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. Automattic uses cookies to help Automattic identify and track visitors, their usage of Authora website, and their website access preferences. Authora visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Authora’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Authora’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Authora, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Authora 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 Authora 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 Authora and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Authora may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Authora’s sole discretion. Authora encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Authora HelpDesk 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.
Change log:
? February 1, 2012: Clarified subpoena language and added Business Transfers paragraph
? July 1, 2011: Revised paragraph about IP addresses to explain when they are collected and that commenter IPs are visible to HelpDesk administrators