Your privacy is very important to us. At The Southern Carolinian we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
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 on-going operation of our site.
Like most website operators, The Southern Carolinian 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 Southern Carolinian’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Southern Carolinian’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Southern Carolinian may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Southern Carolinian also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Southern Carolinian 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.
Certain visitors to The Southern Carolinian’s website choose to interact with The Southern Carolinian in ways that require The Southern Carolinian to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Southern Carolinian 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 The Southern Carolinian updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, The Southern Carolinian collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Southern Carolinian. The Southern Carolinian 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.
The Southern Carolinian may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, The Southern Carolinian may monitor the most popular pages on the thesoutherncarolinian.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Southern Carolinian may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Southern Carolinian does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
The Southern Carolinian 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 Southern Carolinian’s behalf or to provide services available at The Southern Carolinian’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 Southern Carolinian’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Southern Carolinian 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 Southern Carolinian discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Southern Carolinian believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Southern Carolinian, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the The Southern Carolinian website and have supplied your email address, The Southern Carolinian 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 Southern Carolinian. 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. The Southern Carolinian takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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 Southern Carolinian uses cookies to help The Southern Carolinian identify and track visitors, their usage of The Southern Carolinian website, and their website access preferences. The Southern Carolinian visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Southern Carolinian’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Southern Carolinian’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If The Southern Carolinian, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Southern Carolinian 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 Southern Carolinian may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
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 Southern Carolinian and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
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.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Southern Carolinian may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Southern Carolinian’s sole discretion. The Southern Carolinian 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.
The recommendations and opinions expressed in this blog are 100% our own. The Southern Carolinian will, at times, accept forms of compensation or participate in affiliate relationships for approved partners. This means that when The Southern Carolinian provides a link to a product you can purchase from these websites, The Southern Carolinian recieves a small percentage at no extra cost to you.
