WhatRumors:Privacy policy
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Information we collect and how we use it
WhatRumors.com offers a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
Information you provide
When you sign up for a What Rumors account or a promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password).
Browser Cookies
When you visit this site, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some What Rumors features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. You must enable cookies to edit the site and login.
Log information
When you use this site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications
When you send email or other communication to What Rumors, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. This includes message board messages and Talk page comments.
Links
What Rumors may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our site and customized content.
Other sites
This Privacy Policy applies to this website and others within the same family of sites. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as links from within articles. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
We only process personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve services
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network
- Developing new services.
WhatRumors.com processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own home country. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
Information sharing
Whatrumors only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of our company in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of our company, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.