Policies

Disclosure Policy

This policy is valid from 24 November 2008

This website is a personal website written and edited by me and hosted by a third party who also holds the domain name for me in order that I maintain some reasonable semblance of anonymity. This website may eventually accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this website. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

The owner(s) of this website is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this website are purely the website owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This website does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Policy Disclaimer and Change Notice

"Just my Ramblings" (JMR), it's author, Host or other parties involved cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that any files available for downloading thought this site and subsidiary sites or otherJMR holdings will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data and output. You assume total responsibility and risk for your use of the site.

The materials and information contained on this site and subsidiary sites may contain technical inaccuracies and /or typographical errors. JMR does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the materials or the reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information displayed or distributed through the site. You acknowledge that any reliance on any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum or information shall be at your sole risk. JMR Reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the site. JMR May make any other changes to the site, the materials and the products, programs, services or prices (if any) described in the site at any time without notice.

This site and all other sites owned and operated by JMR. and the information and materials on the site are provided “as-is” and JMR does not make any express or implied warranties, representations, or endorsements whatsoever including, without limitation warranties of title or non-infringement, or the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with regard to the site, any merchandise, information or service provided through the site and JMR shall not be liable for any cost or damage arising either directly or indirectly from any such transaction. Some jurisdictions do not allow for the exclusion of implied warrantees, so the above exclusions may not apply to you.

Privacy

Your Privacy Is Serious Business To Us!

JMR is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all our users. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of the JustMyRamblings.com site (the “Site”); it does not apply to other online or offline JMR sites, products or services. By accessing the Site, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.

The privacy of our visitors and members is very important to us. Since we do gather information about you, we provide this privacy statement to enable you to understand the terms and conditions associated with the collection of this data, as well as how we use it and how you can correct or change it. In addition, we make to you the following pledge:

The JustMyRamblings.com Privacy Pledge

The information we collect about your business will be used for purposes of site research and development in an effort to better serve your needs. We will never contact you without your permission, and we will immediately terminate any communications with you upon request.

Collection of your Personal Information

We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you to provide a service or carry out a transaction that you have requested such as receiving information about JMR products and services, entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, joining a limited-access premium site or service, signing up for an event or training, or when purchasing, downloading and/or registering JMR products. The personal information we collect may include your name, title, company or organization name, work e-mail, work phone, work or home address, information about your job function, information about your company, and credit card information.

The Site may collect certain information about your visit, such as the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the date and time you access the Site; the pages that you access while at the Site and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site. This information is used to help improve the site, analyze trends and administer the site. Some of our sites collect information about your hardware and software in order to provide a requested service. Windows Update, for example, needs to know information about your computer in order to recommend needed operating system updates.

JMR technical communities provide opportunities to interact with JMR employees, experts, and your peers in order to share knowledge and news about JMR products and related technologies. In order to avoid your e-mail address or other personal information from being gathered and used by others for inappropriate or harmful purposes, JMR advises that you should be cautious about posting a real e-mail address or other personal information to newsgroups, chats, or other public forums.

Use of your Personal Information

The personal information collected on this Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized.

In support of these uses, JMR may use personal information to provide you with more effective customer service, to improve the Site and any related JMR products or services, and to make the Site easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the Site to your particular preference or interests. In order to offer you a more consistent experience in your interactions with JMR , information collected by JustMyRamblings.com may be combined with information collected by other JMR services.

We may use your personal information to provide you with important information about the product or service that you are using, including critical updates and notifications. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about other JMR products and services, and/or share information with JMR partners so they may send you information about their products and services.

We merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of JustMyRamblings.com, with your approval, we will combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content. If you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and won't merge your personal information with site-visitation data.

If in the future we offer an newsletter; When you sign up for a newsletter or agree to receive promotional e-mail, JustMyRamblings.com may use customized links or similar technologies to track e-mail links that you click. We may associate that information with your personal information in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or purchase information. Each e-mail communication includes an unsubscribe link allowing you to stop delivery of that type of communication.

Some services on JustMyRamblings.com offer individuals the ability to publicly display certain personal information, such as for a JMR partner who wishes to publish contact information as part of offering a business service. Participation in such services is always optional.

JMR occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as Web site hosting, packaging, mailing and delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and services, and sending information about our products, special offers, and other services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

JMR may disclose personal information 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 JMR or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of JMR and our family of Web sites; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of JMR employees or agents, users of JMR products or services, or members of the public.

Personal information collected on the Site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which JMR or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. JMR abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Control of your Personal Information

Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of JMR and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission.

Please be aware that this privacy statement and any choices you make on the Site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to JMR in the context of other, separately operated, JMR products or services.

JustMyRamblings.com may send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service or security issues related to a product or service you requested, or confirming you requested a product or service. In some services offered by JustMyRamblings.com, contact with the customer is an intrinsic part of the service. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered an essential part of the service(s) you have chosen.

Security of your Personal Information

JMR is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Protection of Children's Personal Information

JustMyRamblings.com is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.

Use of Cookies

All sites owned and operated by JMR may use cookies. However at this time we do not employ the use of any cookies but reserve the right to do so in the future without notice other than expansion of this section of our policies.

Use of Web Beacons

JustMyRamblings.com Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow JustMyRamblings.com to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. JustMyRamblings.com may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.

Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views. JustMyRamblings.com prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.

Changes to this Statement

We may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.

Message Boards & Public Postings

JMR is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the course of discussions in our message boards or other forms of publicly accessible interaction.

Usage Reports

In order to better understand traffic patterns on any site owned and operated by JustMyRamblings.com, we analyze our site activity to obtain overall usage statistics. These usage statistics provide us with certain information obtained from data within the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). Information we collect from the browser string includes domain name, browser type, and operating system and MIME type.

Links to Other Sites

Please be aware that when you are on JustMyRamblings.com or any site owned by JustMyRamblings.com , or when you receive an email message from us on behalf of a marketer according to permission granted through our opt-in process for newsletters and special offers, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control, such as the marketer's site. There may be links to other sites from JustMyRamblings.com pages or from the email message we send to you that take you outside JustMyRamblings.com . These other sites may send their own cookies to visitors collect data or solicit personal information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your personal information collected there.

NOTICE: Click here for important information about safe surfing from the Federal Trade Commission.

Pops

JustMyRamblings.com does serve pop advertisements to visitors upon entry and exit. The frequency of these pops is controlled by cookies, mentioned heretofore in this Privacy Policy. Although we do serve pop advertisements, you can choose to block these pop-up windows by using pop-up blocker software. There are many good pop-up blockers on the market. In order to obtain a pop-up blocker, you can view the list here at Download.com.

Security

Protecting the security of your personal information is very important to us. When we store information you have provided to us, that information is protected by security measures that include "firewalls" (a combination of computer hardware and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing information within our computer network), "intrusion detection systems" (a combination of computer hardware and software that helps detect any unauthorized visitors), "secure socket layer" (data encryption used when transmitting certain information such as personal information from a form or a transactions and other security measures such as secure storage. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data repository can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while JustMyRamblings.com strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.

Reporting Unsolicited E-mail

Despite our concerted efforts to prevent unsolicited (spam) e-mail relayed through JustMyRamblings.com servers, unsolicited e-mail may sometimes get through. JustMyRamblings.com NEVER sends unsolicited or spam e-mail. We view spam as a serious violation of privacy and a misuse of the Internet in general. If you receive an unsolicited e-mail with a domain of JustMyRamblings.com, please send it immediately to abuse@justmyramblings.com. Upon receipt of the email, we will do our utmost to track down the offender and take any actions necessary to stop spam messages.

VISITORS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

Our Web site and the servers that make this site available worldwide are located in the United States. All matters relating to these sites are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland in the United States. Any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By visiting our sites and submitting information, you authorize this transfer.

 


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