These policies are valid from 11 October 2007
"from the Park Bench" may change its Policies from time to time, and in "from the Park Bench"’s sole discretion. "from the Park Bench" encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Policies. Your continued use of this site after any change in these Policies will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Feel free to take and modify these policies for use on your own site. This right is only for content not marked as already belonging to another site. Use at your own risk. We are not a lawyer. If you have questions about the legality of statements you should ask one.
"from the Park Bench" reserves a non-exclusive license to all content and comments posted on this site. Basically this means:
- I can delete or edit content or comments.
- I do not have to delete or edit content or comments.
These rights will primarily be used to correct spelling and grammar errors and provide more detailed summaries of submitted content. They will allow us to delete user submitted content we do not plan on publishing or is no longer relevant. They are also necessary in case there are any issues from inappropriate content, privacy, intellectual property, spam, etc. If you are curious about legal issues while blogging a great article is 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know. Thank you to eMoms at Home for the link.
When posting content to the site please follow these guidelines:
- No illegal or pornographic content
- No content or opinions someone else paid you to post.
- No spam or advertisements. You may include a link to your own website in your signature if you are also posting relevant and useful content to the topic at hand.
- Disagree with ideas and not people. In other words if someone says something you don't like argue the point they made instead of calling them an idiot.
- Be respectful of people and their differences.
Sometimes the site may allow you to rate the value of content and/or comments. Please rate content on how interesting/useful you think it would be for other parents. Please rate comments on whether or not they are logical and contributing to the general discussion. For example if some one posts a well thought out argument that you disagree with do NOT rate them down. Comment rating should NOT be used for censorship. However if they are violating site policies or spamming please do rate them down.
(Note, this Privacy Policy is a modification of the Wordpress privacy policy. Thank you to www.wordpress.com for releasing their policy under a Creative Commons Sharealike license. This means anyone can steal it and repurpose it for their own use but you have to provide a link back to www.wordpress.com.)
It is "from the Park Bench"’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, "from the Park Bench" 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. "from the Park Bench"’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how its visitors use its website. From time to time, "from the Park Bench" may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
"from the Park Bench" also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. "from the Park Bench" 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 "from the Park Bench"’s websites choose to interact with "from the Park Bench" in ways that require "from the Park Bench" to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that "from the Park Bench" gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who submit content to provide a username and email address. In each case, "from the Park Bench" collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with "from the Park Bench". "from the Park Bench" 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
"from the Park Bench" may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, "from the Park Bench" may monitor the most popular submitted content. "from the Park Bench" may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, "from the Park Bench" does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
"from the Park Bench" 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 "from the Park Bench"’s behalf or to provide services available at "from the Park Bench"’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 "from the Park Bench"’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. "from the Park Bench" 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, "from the Park Bench" discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when "from the Park Bench" believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of "from the Park Bench", third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of "from the Park Bench" and have supplied your email address, "from the Park Bench" may occasionally send you an email with administrative updates. We primarily post this type of information on the site, 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. "from the Park Bench" takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
"from the Park Bench" includes user published content. Your user id and profile will be publicly viewable on any submitted and/or published content. Your email address is not considered part of your profile and will be kept private. User ids and additional profile information you choose to provide in the public profile section should not be considered private. All information in the "Reviews and Focus Group" profile category will be kept private. They will be used only to select appropriate members for reviews and/or focus groups. Members selected will be asked for permission before any information is shared with a third party requesting a specific review or study. Data may be shared in aggregate with all data that could be used to identify a specific person removed. For example we might say something like, we have 200 moms with one year olds on 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. "from the Park Bench" uses cookies to help "from the Park Bench" identify and track visitors, their usage of "from the Park Bench", and their website access preferences. "from the Park Bench" visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using "from the Park Bench"’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of "from the Park Bench"’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, "from the Park Bench" may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in "from the Park Bench"’s sole discretion. "from the Park Bench" 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.
This site is a collaborative site containing content submitted by many individuals. For questions about this site, please contact info at fromtheparkbench.com.
This site accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
This site abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made on this site. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of this site is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this site are purely the site owners or content submitters. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
This site does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
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(This policy has been modified from the one originally created by the site.)
