Your privacy is very important to us. At BigFish Public Relations 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, 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 site.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, BigFish Public Relations (BigFish) 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. BigFish’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how BigFish’s visitors use its website. From time to time, BigFishmay release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
BigFish also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. BigFish 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 BigFish’s websites choose to interact with BigFish in ways that require BigFish to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that BigFish 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 BigFish updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, BigFish collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with BigFish. BigFish 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
BigFish may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, BigFish may monitor the most popular pages on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. BigFish may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, BigFish does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
BigFish 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 BigFish’s behalf or to provide services available at BigFish’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 BigFish’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. BigFish 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, BigFish discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when BigFish believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of BigFish, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an BigFish website and have supplied your email address, BigFish 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 BigFish 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. BigFish 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. BigFish uses cookies to help BigFish identify and track visitors, their usage of BigFish website, and their website access preferences. BigFish visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using BigFish’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of BigFish’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If BigFish, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that BigFish 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 BigFish 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, BigFish may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in BigFish’s sole discretion. BigFish 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.