Privacy Statement
Character Ink (CI) is committed to protecting your privacy and utilizing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the CI web site and store and governs data collection and usage. By using my website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of Your Personal Information
Character Ink collects user information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Online businesses, including CI, collect anonymous demographic information that is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites.
Hardware and software information are also collected. This information can include IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by us (and all online businesses) for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our site.
Character Ink encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from my site so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share your information. Character Ink is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of ours.
Use of Your Personal Information
Character Ink collects and uses your information to deliver the services you have requested. We also use this information to inform you of other products or services available from our blog and its affiliates.
Character Ink does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Character Ink does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Character Ink keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the blog in order to determine what CI services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the blog to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Character Ink will disclose your personal information only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CI; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the site, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
Security of Your Personal Information
Character Ink secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Our site secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to This Statement
Character Ink will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. CI encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
Contact Information
Character Ink welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that this site has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us.
