Your privacy is critically important to us. At www.swim.ph we have a few fundamental principles:
- 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 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.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, www.swim.ph 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. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our website
This website also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We do not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to www.swim.ph choose to interact with this website in ways that require this site to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that www.swim.ph gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who register as members and/or sign-up for newsletter to provide a username and/or full name and email address. Those who engage in transactions with www.swim.ph – by purchasing digital downloads, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, www.swim.ph collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with www.swim.ph. We do 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
We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to this website. For instance, we may monitor the most popular posts on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
We disclose 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 our behalf or to provide services available at our 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 www.swim.ph, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. We 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, we disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our property or rights, that of third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of this website and/or have supplied your email address using our newsletter subscription, we 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 www.swim.ph, our products/services. Occasionally, we may send you posts about third-party or affilaite products we promote, although we promise to keep this at mimimum. 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. We take 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. www.swim.ph uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of www.swim.ph website, and their website access preferences. www.swim.ph visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using www.swim.ph’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of www.swim.ph’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
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 www.swim.ph and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on the visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page. (You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.)
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, www.swim.ph may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in www.swim.ph’ sole discretion. We encourage 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.
Last updated: September 15, 2012
If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact us.