Privacy Policy
InezTheMiniatureElephant.com (“InezTheMiniatureElephant.com”) operates InezTheMiniatureElephant.com and may operate other websites. It is InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
InezTheMiniatureElephant.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on InezTheMiniatureElephant.com blogs/sites. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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 commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s websites choose to interact with InezTheMiniatureElephant.com in ways that require InezTheMiniatureElephant.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that InezTheMiniatureElephant.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at InezTheMiniatureElephant.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with InezTheMiniatureElephant.com are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with InezTheMiniatureElephant.com. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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
InezTheMiniatureElephant.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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 InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s behalf or to provide services available at InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’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 InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when InezTheMiniatureElephant.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of InezTheMiniatureElephant.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an InezTheMiniatureElephant.com website and have supplied your email address, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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 InezTheMiniatureElephant.com and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com uses cookies to help InezTheMiniatureElephant.com identify and track visitors, their usage of InezTheMiniatureElephant.com website, and their website access preferences. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics software to analyse its website traffic, and explicitly refers its users to the following Google data privacy statement: “This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will generally be transmitted to, and stored by, Google on a server in the USA. If IP anonymisation (‘masking’) has been activated on this website, however, and you are located in a member state of the European Union or in another state that is party to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, your IP address will first be abbreviated by Google, the full IP address only being transmitted to a Google server in the USA in exceptional cases before being abbreviated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing the website operator with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted from your browser by Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Moreover, you can prevent the data which the cookie generates on your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being acquired and processed by Google, by downloading and installing the Opt-out Browser Add-on from the the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
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 InezTheMiniatureElephant.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Google Adsense
This website uses Google Adsense, a Web-advertising-service of Google Inc., United States ( “Google”). Google Adsense uses “cookies” (text files) that are stored on your computer and allows an analysis of the use of the Website by you. Google Adsense also uses so-called “web beacons” (small invisible images) to gather information. Through the use of Web beacons simple actions such as the visitor traffic to the website can be recorded and collected. The information generated by the cookie and / or Web Beacon information about your use of this site (), including your IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the site in order to show, compiling reports on website activity and ads for website operators and providing other use of this website and internet related services. Even Google is able to transmit this information to third parties unless required by law or if third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Storing cookies on your hard drive and the display of Web Beacons you can avoid by choosing to accept in your browser settings, “cookies” (in MS Internet Explorer under “Tools> Internet Options> Privacy> Settings”, in Firefox under Tools> Settings> Privacy> Cookies), we would point out however that in this case you can not use all the features of this website. By using this site you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described, and agree to the aforementioned purpose.
A Special Note About Google Advertising
Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies may be controlled using cookies. These cookies allow Google to display ads based on your visits to this site and other sites that use Google advertising services. Learn how to opt out of Google’s cookie usage. As mentioned above, any tracking done by Google through cookies and other mechanisms is subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please see: .
When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:
The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook.
For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website.
Functions from Twitter services are integrated into our webpages. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. By using Twitter and the function “Retweet”, the webpages that you visit will be linked with your Twitter account and made public to other users. Information is also transmitted to Twitter in this way.
We would like to point out that we, as providers of the website, do not receive information about the contents of the transmitted data or their use by Twitter. For more information, please see Twitter’s privacy statement.
You can change your privacy protection settings for Twitter in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Business Transfers
If InezTheMiniatureElephant.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that InezTheMiniatureElephant.com 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 InezTheMiniatureElephant.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, InezTheMiniatureElephant.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in InezTheMiniatureElephant.com’s sole discretion. InezTheMiniatureElephant.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a InezTheMiniatureElephant.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
