Your privacy is very important to us. At Ice Cream for Everyone there are a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We only ask for a name and email address when you sign up for our email newsletter, that we use to send you our email newsletter and very occasionally to share important updates.
- We use cookies to detect spam, aggregate analytics about the website usage, and other non-identifying information used from one visit to another.
- 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 our site.
Ice Cream for Everyone | Willem van der Horst operates www.icecreamforeveryone.net. It is Ice Cream for Everyone’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Ice Cream for Everyone 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. Ice Cream for Everyone ’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Ice Cream for Everyone ’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Ice Cream for Everyone may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Ice Cream for Everyone also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blog. Ice Cream for Everyone 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 Ice Cream for Everyone choose to interact with Ice Cream for Everyone in ways that require Ice Cream for Everyone to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Ice Cream for Everyone gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive our newsletter via email, we collect username or first names, and emails. In each case, Ice Cream for Everyone collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Ice Cream for Everyone. Ice Cream for Everyone 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
Ice Cream for Everyone may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website (using Google Analytics, for example). For instance, Ice Cream for Everyone may monitor the most popular pages on website or use spam screened by the Akismet or CleanTalk services to help identify spam. Ice Cream for Everyone may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Ice Cream for Everyone does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Ice Cream for Everyone 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 Ice Cream for Everyone’s behalf or to provide services available at Ice Cream for Everyone’s website, 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 Ice Cream for Everyone’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Ice Cream for Everyone 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, Ice Cream for Everyone discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Ice Cream for Everyone believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Ice Cream for Everyone, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Ice Cream for Everyone website and have supplied your email address, Ice Cream for Everyone may occasionally send you an email to tell you about news, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Ice Cream for Everyone. We primarily use our blog and social media presence 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 to willem@icecreamforeveryone.net or via our online contact form), 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. Ice Cream for Everyone 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. Ice Cream for Everyone uses cookies to help Ice Cream for Everyone identify and track visitors, their usage of Ice Cream for Everyone website, and their website access preferences. Ice Cream for Everyone visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Ice Cream for Everyone’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Ice Cream for Everyone’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Ice Cream for Everyone, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Ice Cream for Everyone 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 Ice Cream for Everyone may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet 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.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Ice Cream for Everyone may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Ice Cream for Everyone’s sole discretion. Ice Cream for Everyone 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.