Your privacy is critically important to us. At Flipping Binary we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- 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 one of our services.
- On our website, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Flipping Binary (“Flipping Binary”) operates several websites including FlippingBinary.com. It is Flipping Binary’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Flipping Binary 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. Flipping Binary’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Flipping Binary’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Flipping Binary may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Flipping Binary also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Flipping Binary 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 Flipping Binary’s websites choose to interact with Flipping Binary in ways that require Flipping Binary to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Flipping Binary gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on an article to provide a username and email address. In each case, Flipping Binary collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Flipping Binary. Flipping Binary 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
Flipping Binary may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Flipping Binary may monitor the most popular articles or use spam screened by the third party services to help identify spam. Flipping Binary may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Flipping Binary does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Flipping Binary 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 Flipping Binary’s behalf or to provide services available at Flipping Binary’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 Flipping Binary’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Flipping Binary 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, Flipping Binary discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Flipping Binary believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Flipping Binary, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Flipping Binary website and have supplied your email address, Flipping Binary 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 Flipping Binary and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, 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. Flipping Binary 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. Flipping Binary uses cookies to help Flipping Binary identify and track visitors, their usage of Flipping Binary website, and their website access preferences. Flipping Binary visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Flipping Binary’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Flipping Binary’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
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 Flipping Binary and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Flipping Binary may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Flipping Binary’s sole discretion. Flipping Binary 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.
Creative Commons License
This Privacy Policy is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic. It has been repurposed from Info Refuge’s Privacy Policy. Featured image “Privacy” by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images.