Privacy Policy

The Printed Ink (“The Printed Ink“) operates theprintedink.com and may operate other websites. It is The Printed Ink’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Contents

Website Visitors

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

The Printed Ink also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on theprintedink.com blogs/sites. The Printed Ink 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 commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Printed Ink’s websites choose to interact with The Printed Ink in ways that require The Printed Ink to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Printed Ink gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at theprintedink.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The Printed Ink are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Printed Ink collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Printed Ink. The Printed Ink 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

The Printed Ink may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Printed Ink may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Printed Ink does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Printed Ink 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 The Printed Ink’s behalf or to provide services available at The Printed Ink’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 The Printed Ink’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Printed Ink 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 Printed Ink discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Printed Ink believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Printed Ink, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Printed Ink website and have supplied your email address, The Printed Ink 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 Printed Ink and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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 Printed Ink 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 Printed Ink uses cookies to help The Printed Ink identify and track visitors, their usage of The Printed Ink website, and their website access preferences. The Printed Ink visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Printed Ink’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Printed Ink’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If The Printed Ink, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Printed Ink goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Printed Ink may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

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 The Printed Ink and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Printed Ink may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Printed Ink’s sole discretion. The Printed Ink encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a theprintedink.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.