Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. The Network Cottage is a division of The Office Network, owned by Flora Johnson. At The Network Cottage we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

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 and services, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Network Cottage 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 Network Cottage’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Network Cottage’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Network Cottage may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Network Cottage also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Network Cottage 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 The Network Cottage’s website choose to interact with The Network Cottage in ways that require The Network Cottage to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Network Cottage gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide their name and email address. For those who wish to receive The Network Cottage updates via email, we collect their email address. In each case, The Network Cottage collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Network Cottage. The Network Cottage 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.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Network Cottage discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (a) need to know that information in order to process it on The Network Cottage’s behalf or to provide services available at The Network Cottage’s websites, and (b) 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 The Network Cottage’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Network Cottage 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, The Network Cottage discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Network Cottage believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Network Cottage, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Network Cottage website and have supplied your email address, The Network Cottage 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 The Network Cottage and our products and services. 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. The Network Cottage takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized 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. The Network Cottage uses cookies to help The Network Cottage identify and track visitors, their usage of The Network Cottage website, and their website access preferences. The Network Cottage visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Network Cottage’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Network Cottage’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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 The Network Cottage and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

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.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Network Cottage may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Network Cottage’s sole discretion. The Network Cottage 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.