- 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 ongoing operation of one of our services.
- In our blogging products, 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
Hub City Bicycle also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Automattic 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 and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying InformationCertain visitors to Hub City Bicycle websites choose to interact with Hub City Bicycle in ways that require Hub City Bicycle to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Hub City Bicycle gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at Hub City Bicycle to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Hub City Bicycle –
Aggregated StatisticsAutomattic may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Automattic may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Automattic may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Automattic does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Information We Collect from Other Sources With your authorization, we may also obtain information about you from other sources. For example, if you create or log into your WordPress.com account through a social media service (like Google) or if you connect your website or account to a social media service through our Publicize feature, we will receive information from that service (such as your username, basic profile information, and friends list) via the authorization procedures used by that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information Hub City Bicycle 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 Automattic’s behalf or to provide services available at Hub City Bicycle 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 Hub City Bicycle websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Hub City Bicycle 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, Hub City Bicycle discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Hub City Bicycle believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Hub City Bicycle, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Hub City Bicycle website and have supplied your email address, Hub City Bicycle 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 Hub City Bicycle 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. Hub City Bicycle 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. Hub City Bicycle uses cookies to help Hub City Bicycle identify and track visitors, their usage of Hub City Bicycle website, and their website access preferences. Hub City Bicycle visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Hub City Bicycle’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Hub City Bicycle’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers If Hub City Bicycle, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Hub City Bicycle 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 Hub City Bicycle may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
AdsAds 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 Automattic and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
CommentsComments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives or missed spam, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives and missed spam.
Privacy Policy Changes Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hub City Bicycle may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Hub City Bicycle’s sole discretion. Hub City Bicycle encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
