Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At futureLiving.info 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.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:Creative Commons License (Note, we’ve decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you)

If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact us using the link on the footer of any page.

 

Website Visitors

Like most websites, futureLiving.info 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. futureLiving.info’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how futureLiving.info’s visitors use its website. From time to time, futureLiving.info may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

futureLiving.info also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on futureLiving.info's forums and blogs. futureLiving.info 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 futureLiving.info’s websites choose to interact with futureLiving.info in ways that require futureLiving.info to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that futureLiving.info gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at futureLiving.info to provide a username and email address. futureLiving.info 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

futureLiving.info may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, futureLiving.info may monitor the most popular forums/blogs on the futureLiving.info site . futureLiving.info may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, futureLiving.info does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

futureLiving.info 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 futureLiving.info’s behalf or to provide services available at futureLiving.info’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 futureLiving.info’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. futureLiving.info will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, futureLiving.info discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena or court order, or when futureLiving.info believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of futureLiving.info, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an futureLiving.info website and have supplied your email address, futureLiving.info 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 futureLiving.info. We primarily use our various product forums/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. futureLiving.info takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially 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. futureLiving.info uses cookies to help futureLiving.info identify and track visitors, their usage of futureLiving.info website, and their website access preferences. futureLiving.info visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using futureLiving.info’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of futureLiving.info’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website 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 futureLiving.info and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, futureLiving.info may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in futureLiving.info’s sole discretion. futureLiving.info 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.