At Butterflies And Wheels, we completely respect your online privacy. We are fully committed to safeguarding your online privacy and personal information while you’re here at the butterfliesandwheels.org website. We will never sell your personal information and/or email address to third parties or anyone else.

Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit butterfliesandwheels.org, and how we safeguard your information.

This privacy policy was last updated on April 17, 2010.

Our Use of Information

We generally do not provide to anyone else any personally identifiable information relating to Website users other than information that Website users post on interactive sections of the Website. We may use anonymous information gathered from the Website for the management and improvement of the Website.

We reserve the right to disclose all information collected via the Website, internally or to third parties, for any lawful purpose or to prevent harm to us or others. For example and without limitation, in our discretion we may disclose information to government regulators, law enforcement authorities or alleged victims of identity theft. We may dispose of information in our discretion without notice, subject to applicable law.

Information You Provide

When you submit a letter to the editor or leave a comment on a post, you are asked to provide your name and email address. We will never publish or sell either of these–they are only used internally to allow for pseudonymous comments.

When you submit the contact form, you are also asked for your name and email address. The only way this information will be used is to contact you in the event that your comment requires a response.

Log Files

For each visitor to this website, our web server automatically collects the following types of information which are stored in secure log files on the server:

• Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number.
• Type of operating system
• Network location and IP address
  • Can include country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data.
  • Hostname
  • Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
• Time of visit
• Pages visited
• Time spent on each page of the website
• Referring site statistics
  • The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)
  • Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)

Google Analytics

Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects the following types of information from users:

• Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number.
• Type of operating system
• Screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen)
• Javascript support
• Flash version
• Screen resolution
• Network location and IP address
  • Can include country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data.
  • Hostname
  • Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
• Time of visit
• Pages visited
• Time spent on each page of the website
• Referring site statistics
  • The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)
  • Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)

Google Analytics data is shared with Google. For more information on Google’s Privacy Policies, visit: http://www.google.com/intl//privacypolicy.html

Third-party Login

When you submit a comment, you may choose to authenticate through a third party rather than giving us your name and email address. Third-party authentication is processed by RPX, and is subject to both their privacy policy and the privacy policies of the services they enable authentication through (such as Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Facebook and Twitter).

Links

This website contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Butterflies And Wheels is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage you, when you leave this website, to read the privacy statements/policies of each and every website you visit, as this particular privacy policy applies solely to butterfliesandwheels.org.

Advertisers

At this time, butterfliesandwheels.org is ad-free and does not use any outside advertising companies or services.

Note About Children’s Privacy Issues

Our primary audience is adults and young adults. We do not intend to collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. Any use of the Website by children under the age of 13 should be conducted under the supervision of that child’s parent or guardian. Information should not be submitted to or posted at the Website by anyone under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian. Children can browse the Website without any personal information being collected.

If a child has provided his or her personal information, a parent or guardian may so inform us by using the contact form, and we will use reasonable efforts to delete that child’s personal information from our database (subject to applicable law and this Privacy Policy). If we learn that a user under 13 years of age has submitted personally identifiable information online, we will take reasonable measures to delete such information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required by law). We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.