Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy:

Civic Knowledge ("Civic Knowledge") operates civicknowledge.com and may operate other websites. It is Civic Knowledge's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Civic Knowledge 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. Civic Knowledge's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Civic Knowledge's visitors use its website. From time to time, Civic Knowledge may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Civic Knowledge also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on civicknowledge.com blogs/sites. Civic Knowledge 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 and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Civic Knowledge's websites choose to interact with Civic Knowledge in ways that require Civic Knowledge to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Civic Knowledge gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at civicknowledge.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Civic Knowledge are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Civic Knowledge collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Civic Knowledge. Civic Knowledge 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

Civic Knowledge may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Civic Knowledge may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Civic Knowledge does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Civic Knowledge 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 Civic Knowledge's behalf or to provide services available at Civic Knowledge'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 Civic Knowledge's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Civic Knowledge 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, Civic Knowledge discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Civic Knowledge believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Civic Knowledge, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Civic Knowledge website and have supplied your email address, Civic Knowledge 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 Civic Knowledge and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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. Civic Knowledge 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. Civic Knowledge uses cookies to help Civic Knowledge identify and track visitors, their usage of Civic Knowledge website, and their website access preferences. Civic Knowledge visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Civic Knowledge's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Civic Knowledge's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

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

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Civic Knowledge may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Civic Knowledge's sole discretion. Civic Knowledge encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a civicknowledge.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.