Privacy Policy

The Politics Forums Privacy Policy

Website Visitors

Like most websites, The Politics Forums 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. The Politics Forums’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Politics Forums’s visitors use the website. The Politics Forums also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The Politics Forums does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.


Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Politics Forums’s websites choose to interact with The Politics Forums in ways that require The Politics Forums to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Politics Forums gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who post at The Politics Forums to provide an email address. In each case, The Politics Forums collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Politics Forums. The Politics Forums 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

The Politics Forums may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Politics Forums may monitor the most popular parts of the The Politics Forums site, and may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Politics Forums does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.


Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Politics Forums 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 The Politics Forums’s behalf or to provide services available at The Politics Forums, 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 The Politics Forums’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Politics Forums 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, The Politics Forums discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The Politics Forums believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Politics Forums, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a The Politics Forums website and have supplied your email address, The Politics Forums 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 The Politics Forums and our products. 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. The Politics Forums 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. The Politics Forums uses cookies to help The Politics Forums identify and track visitors, their usage of The Politics Forums website, and their website access preferences. The Politics Forums visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Politics Forums’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Politics Forums’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy located here: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/


Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Politics Forums may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Politics Forums’s sole discretion. The Politics Forums 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. If you have any further questions regarding our Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us.