Your privacy is very important to us. At Nine Dots Creative we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Nine Dots Creative 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. Nine Dots Creative’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use the website.

Nine Dots Creative also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on our blogs. Nine Dots Creative 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 Nine Dots Creative’s websites choose to interact with Nine Dots Creative in ways that requireNine Dots Creative to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information thatNine Dots Creative 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 receiveNine Dots Creative updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case,Nine Dots Creative collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Nine Dots Creative.Nine Dots Creative 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

Nine Dots Creative may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance,Nine Dots Creative may monitor the most popular pages on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam.Nine Dots Creative may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However,Nine Dots Creative does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Nine Dots Creative 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 Nine Dots Creative’s behalf or to provide services available atNine Dots Creative’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 usingNine Dots Creative’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.Nine Dots Creative 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,Nine Dots Creative discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or whenNine Dots Creative believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Nine Dots Creative, third parties or the public at large. If you have supplied your email address,Nine Dots Creative may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new services, events, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Nine Dots Creative.Nine Dots Creative 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. Nine Dots Creative uses cookies to helpNine Dots Creative identify and track visitors, their usage of the Nine Dots Creative website, and their website access preferences.Nine Dots Creative visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before usingNine Dots Creative’s website, with the drawback that certain features ofNine Dots Creative’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Nine Dots Creative, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Nine Dots Creative 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 Nine Dots Creative 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 Nine Dots Creative and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

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, Nine Dots Creative may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Nine Dots Creative’s sole discretion. Nine Dots Creative 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.