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Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Google Circuits 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. Google Circuits’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Google Circuits’s visitors use the website. From time to time, Google Circuits may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Google Circuits also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Google Circuits 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 Google Circuits choose to interact with the site in ways that require Google Circuits to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that BlogF1 gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Visitors who choose to leave comments on the blog are required to enter an email address in order for the comment to show on the site. In each case, Google Circuits collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Google Circuits. Google Circuits 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
Google Circuits may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Google Circuits may monitor the level of traffic to a certain part of the website in order to assess its success or to refine the underlying code. Google Circuits may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Google Circuits does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Google Circuits discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees (currently none other the owner), contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Google Circuits’s behalf or to provide services available at Google Circuits’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Google Circuits, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Google Circuits will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Google Circuits discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Google Circuits believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Google Circuits, third parties or the public at large. Google Circuits takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised 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. Google Circuits uses cookies to help Google Circuits identify and track visitors, their usage of Google Circuits, and their website access preferences. Google Circuits visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Google Circuits, with the drawback that certain features of Google Circuits may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Google Circuits may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Google Circuits’s sole discretion. Google Circuits 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.
Attribution
Attribution for the above Privacy Policy goes to Automattic’s Privacy Policy, protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic License.
