Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy (as of Feb 13, 2020)

Your privacy is very important to us. At FlyingPlaneandSimple.com there are 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.

It is FlyingPlaneandSimple.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to FlyingPlaneandSimple.com’s website choose to interact with FlyingPlaneandSimple.com in ways that require FlyingPlaneandSimple.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that FlyingPlaneandSimple.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, FlyingPlaneandSimple.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with FlyingPlaneandSimple.com . FlyingPlaneandSimple.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

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

FlyingPlaneandSimple.com uses Google Analytics. For more information, see “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”  located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

FlyingPlaneandSimple.com discloses potentially 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 FlyingPlaneandSimple.com’s behalf or to provide services available at FlyingPlaneandSimple.com, 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 FlyingPlaneandSimple.com , you consent to the transfer of such information to them. FlyingPlaneandSimple.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, FlyingPlaneandSimple.com discloses potentially personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when FlyingPlaneandSimple.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of FlyingPlaneandSimple.com , third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a FlyingPlaneandSimple.com website and have supplied your email address, FlyingPlaneandSimple.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 FlyingPlaneandSimple.com and our products. We primarily use our blog 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. FlyingPlaneandSimple.com 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. FlyingPlaneandSimple.com uses cookies to help FlyingPlaneandSimple.com identify and track visitors, their usage of FlyingPlaneandSimple.com website, and their website access preferences. FlyingPlaneandSimple.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using FlyingPlaneandSimple.com, with the drawback that certain features of FlyingPlaneandSimple.com may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

  • Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website
  • Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the internet
  • You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ad Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info)
  • FlyingPlaneandSimple.com may have third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on this site such as Google AdSense.
  • You may visit those websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising if the vendor or ad network offers this capability.  Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

For more details, see our COOKIE POLICY on this website.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.

Business Transfers

If FlyingPlaneandSimple.com , or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that FlyingPlaneandSimple.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 FlyingPlaneandSimple.com 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 FlyingPlaneandSimple.com 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, FlyingPlaneandSimple.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in FlyingPlaneandSimple.com’s sole discretion. FlyingPlaneandSimple.com 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.

Disclaimer:  The content of FlyingPlaneandSimple.com should be taken “as is,” I am not providing professional advice and won’t be liable or responsible if someone takes my content as advice and then has a problem in the future.