Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At On The Way Around 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, On The Way Around 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. On The Way Around’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how On The Way Around’s visitors use its website. From time to time, On The Way Around may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

On The Way Around also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. On The Way Around 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 On The Way Around’s websites choose to interact with On The Way Around in ways that require On The Way Around to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that On The Way Around 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 On The Way Around updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, On The Way Around collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with On The Way Around. On The Way Around 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

On The Way Around may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, On The Way Around may monitor the most popular pages on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. On The Way Around may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, On The Way Around does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

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

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 On The Way Around and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

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, On The Way Around may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in On The Way Around’s sole discretion. On The Way Around 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.