Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us.

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • 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 our site.

Who we are

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Albertonmontanathebook (“AlbertonMontana”) 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 purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how site visitors use this website. From time to time, AlbertonMontana may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

AlbertonMontana also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. AlbertonMontana 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 are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to AlbertonMontana choose to interact in ways that require this site to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information AlbertonMontana gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to subscribe, we collect their emails. In each case, AlbertonMontana collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the site. AlbertonMontana 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.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet 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.

Contact form

This form captures name, email and comments/messages, used for replying to the sender. This information is kept indefinitely. This information is not used for marketing purposes.

Subscription form

This form captures name and email, used for subscriptions to the website. The information is kept for as long as you subscribe, which you may opt out of at any time.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Aggregated Statistics/Analytics

AlbertonMontana may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to the site. AlbertonMontana site does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

AlbertonMontana uses Google Analytics. Privacy policy link: https://policies.google.com/privacy

and Monster Insights. Privacy policy link: https://www.monsterinsights.com/privacy-policy/

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

AlbertonMontana discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its administrators, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on this site’s behalf or to provide services available at this site, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those administrators, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using this site, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. AlbertonMontana will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its administrators, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, AlbertonMontana discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when this site believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of this site, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of AlbertonMontana and have supplied your email address, AlbertonMontana 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 AlbertonMontana. We primarily use our blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. AlbertonMontana takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

For donators, here is the PayPal privacy policy:

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

For subscribers, here is the Mail Chimp privacy policy:

https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/?_ga=2.49355430.1219954959.1534708201-792328091.1530379417

 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. AlbertonMontana uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of this site, and their website access preferences. AlbertonMontana visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using this site.

 Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, AlbertonMontana may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in this site’s sole discretion. AlbertonMontana 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.