Privacy Policy
Your privacy is as import to us as it is to you, so at storage advisor we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We dislike 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 one of our services.
- We do use tracking services such as Google Analytics and Jetpack Stats.
- We do use social media plugins to facilitate sharing and single login.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: (Note, this is a modified policy originally made available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to akilimited.com and/or Automattic.com somewhere on your site. Automattic spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn’t need to do the same.)
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us.
akilimited.com (“AKI Limited”) currently operates akilimited.com and it is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, AKI Limited 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. AKI Limited’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how AKI Limited’s visitors use its website. From time to time, AKI Limited may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
AKI Limited also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. AKI Limited 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 and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to AKI Limited’s websites choose to interact with AKI Limited in ways that require Automattic to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that AKI Limited gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up to comment to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with AKI Limited – by purchasing a subscription or white paper, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, AKI Limited collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with AKI Limited. AKI Limited 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
AKI Limited may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, AKI Limited may monitor the most popular blogs on the akilimited.com site or use spam screened by the AKismet or other service to help identify spam. AKI Limited may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, AKI Limited does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
In general the usage of AKI Limited is possible without any personal data. AKI Limited 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 AKI Limited’s behalf or to provide services available at AKI Limited’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 AKI Limited’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. AKI Limited 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, AKI Limited discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when AKI Limited believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of AKI Limited, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an AKI Limited website and have supplied your email address, AKI Limited 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 AKI Limited and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs 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. AKI Limited takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information and yet a complete protection against unauthorized access by third parties is not possible.
This privacy policy applies only to our AKI Limited, and not links which take you off our site.
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. AKI Limited uses cookies to help AKI Limited identify and track visitors, their usage of AKI Limited website, and their website access preferences. AKI Limited visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using AKI Limited’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of AKI Limited’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Business Transfers
If AKI Limited, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that AKI Limited goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of AKI Limited may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
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 AKI Limited and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
If you post a comment on our website it and your userid will probably become publicly visible, so be careful what you post. Also to protect ourselves in the case that illegal content is published, your IP address is stored. Comments and other content submitted to our 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, AKI Limited may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in AKI Limited’s sole discretion. AKI Limited encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. You should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Web analytics by Google
This website uses Google Analytics, the web analysis service of Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies, to enable analysis of website usage by you. Information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
However, your IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf this website’s owner, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports about website activities, and provide the website’s operator with further services related to website and Internet usage. The IP address sent from your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data by Google. You can prevent storage of cookies by appropriately setting your browser software; in this case, however, please note that you might not be able to fully use all functions offered by this website. In addition, you can prevent data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google, by downloading and installing a browser plug-in from the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
This website uses Google Analytics with IP addresses being truncated before further processing in order to rule out direct associations to persons. More on Google Analytics can be found here. http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.
We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords for statistical analysis. You can customize these settings here: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en.
You can stop the tracking of Google Analytics by clicking the following link. [google_analytics_optout]Click here to opt-out.[/google_analytics_optout] It will create an Opt-Out-Cookie, that prevents future data tracking on AKI Limited
Social plug-ins from Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Twitter
We use other Social plug-ins from facebook.com, twitter.com, linkedin.com, github.com and Google+. This is an optional feature which allows your to use a single social login to many sites and to easily share pages and articles you are interested with your social community.
As each service works differently please read the privacy policies of the social media you choose to use(if any). Please be aware that even if you are not logged in to our site, if you are logged in to Facebook for example on the same browser click on the “Facebook Like” button or leave a “Facebook Comment”, the relevant information is transmitted directly from your browser to Facebook and stored there. For details about Facebook handles your personal data and your related rights, please refer to the data privacy policy of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to map data collected about you via our Web sites to your Facebook account, you should log out of Facebook before visiting our web pages.
Twitter: If you use Retweet, the websites visited by you are announced to third parties and associated with your Twitter account. Details about handling of your data by Twitter as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your personal information can be found in Twitter’s data privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy
Linkedin:
Jetpack Stats
This site is using Jetpack by Automatic (formerly known as WordPress.com-Stats), to aggregate and report visits on this site. using “Cookies”, little text files that are stored on your computer to analyze your visit on the website. Your information produced by the cookie is stored and saved on a server in the US. Your IP address anonymized before the saving process and directly after processing. You can disable the cookie by setting a specific option in your browser; we point out that you might not be able to fully use this website if cookies are disabled.
Jetpack is operated by Automattic Inc.,
Disclosure
According to the Federal Data Protection Act, you have a right to free-of-charge information about your stored data, and possibly entitlement to correction, blocking or deletion of such data. Inquiries can be directed to the following e-mail address: privacy@akilimited.com
