Web Site
We collect statistical data on all web site visitors, via 3rd party providers such as Google Analytics, including but not limited to your IP address, ISP, browser type, etc. We use this data primarily in two ways: 1. in aggregate to determine where we’re being most effective in delivering content so that we can continually improve and 2. in individual cases to block intrusion from visitors who violate our terms of service, including SPAMers and trolls. In other words, providing sufficient security requires some collection of some data. On all web sites, it’s always a balance between security and privacy where there’s interaction between users and web site content or community.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3rd Parties
We will not sell your information to a third party. We also will not hand over your info. to corporations posing as governments. We pledge to keep your information secure to the best of our efforts including fighting these entities in court when necessary. But remember Darpa created the internet and most likely can retrieve any confidential information from any website and sell it / pass it along to other agencies and corporations.
Here is what Darpa promotes on its own website: “ARPA research played a central role in launching the Information Revolution. The agency developed and furthered much of the conceptual basis for the ARPANET—prototypical communications network launched nearly half a century ago—and invented the digital protocols that gave birth to the Internet. DARPA also provided many of the essential advances that made possible today’s computers and communications systems, including seminal technological achievements that support the speech recognition, touch-screen displays, accelerometers, and wireless capabilities at the core of today’s smartphones and tablets. DARPA has also long been a leader in the development of artificial intelligence, machine intelligence and semi-autonomous systems. DARPA’s efforts in this domain have focused primarily on military operations, including command and control, but the commercial sector has adopted and expanded upon many of the agency’s results to develop wide-spread applications in fields as diverse as manufacturing, entertainment and education.”
General Security
We make an effort to keep information secure, by providing a fairly standard layer of protection (e.g. passwords, user levels, some filters, etc), but no system is impregnable. We’re a small operation, and even the NSA gets hacked.
Email Addresses
If you’re worried about supplying your e-mail address – keep in mind that anything you do with e-mail anywhere, including sending an e-mail, is inherently insecure – as is posting in any social media or forum environment. The vast majority of e-mail, unless you’re sending all your messages using encryption at both ends (sender/recipient), is sent “in the open” – meaning it’s actually readable by anyone with sufficient technology to pull it out of the ether. This is why there are laws now (e.g. the GLB Act) about sending financial info that way. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you’re doing ‘mission critical’ stuff with your e-mail, you’ve got bigger problems than simply providing the address to us (unless your initials are HRC). That said, we’re going to need a means of communication to let you have an account, and be able to provide support – as is the payment processor.
Payment Info
We aren’t the payment processor. Currently, it’s Stripe, and we don’t have access to your Stripe account nor do we keep your card numbers, bank account numbers, etc – so their privacy policies apply to your payment handling.
Information Persistence
In the event remediesaremany.com shuts down, it will not distribute your information for use by any party to utilize in selling, marketing, or recruiting former remediesaremany.com website users, subscribers, or members. We will not sell your information to any individual or party.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.