Privacy Policy
Public Nature of Content Submitted to Sites
The nature of blogging  and web commenting is to reach a public audience. Please be aware that any information that you submit to us whether through forms or email, including personally identifiable information, may be publicly displayed on sites hosted at http://aboutfreedom.org , or on websites not within our control. If you don’t want others to see such information, don’t submit it.
Forms and Content
To create a new blog, contribute content, or register for an existing one, you may be required to submit an email address and other personal information. We may publicly display the personal information. Your address may also be used to send you email bulletins from individual About Freedom blogs or newsletters to which you subscribe, or to attribute comments or posts to you. If there are problems with your individual site, we may contact you via email as well.
If you contribute content, such as discussion comments, to any of our blogs or pages, your contribution may be publicly displayed including personally identifiable information. Display of visitor content is determined by the discretion of the individual blog or page editors.
In the event that you may be the editor of a blog or page, you may establish a range of access restrictions to your material. The initial default setting for individual blogs and pages allows outside search engines, indexes and third party sites to scan each blog and content page, create hyperlinks to individual blogs and pages or distribute it further via feeds. If you change these settings, there is no guarantee that outside search engines will omit your content from its searches. Please check your default settings to discern the level of access the public has to your individual blog.
Each time you update your individual blog, it may also send pings or feeds to sites that index or track newly updated blogs. These sites may publicly display a hyperlink to your site and the time that you updated it. If your site publishes XML feeds, content from or links to your site may be publicly displayed on third party sites.
Depending on the settings on your site, email bulletins that contain content from your site may be sent out to subscribers.
IP Addresses and Referrers
We may publicly display the IP addresses of visitors and contributors to individual blogs hosted at http://aboutfreedom.org.
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor site content and to format the site and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. We may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on individual blogs and pages, site popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access individual blogs and pages.
Cookies
If you visit our web site, we may use session cookies while your browser is open, or while you are logged into our site. To facilitate our registration and login functions, we may use cookies to recognize you when you return to our website or to individual blogs or page hosted our site. If you do not logout of your account, these cookies allow us to keep track of your username and password, so that you do not have to resubmit the information to log into your account. Always remember to log out of your site or account so that the computer’s other users cannot access your account.
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Available log records, and all data stored on our servers may be accessed by our system administrators. The system administrators may produce these records and data to the organization management, upon request or suspected violation of our terms of use. It is About Freedom’s policy to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the detection, investigation, and prosecution of unlawful activity. If we receive a warrant or subpoena for user information, we may disclose requested records to law enforcement authorities or outside parties seeking information through the legal process.
Links to Independent Websites
Blogs hosted and pages created in the About Freedom web site may link to independently run web sites outside of the http://aboutfreedom.org domain. About Freedom management is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such web sites.
Children’s Privacy
The pages and blogs at About Freedom site is intended for adults and we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years old. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who has become a member of a site hosted by http://aboutfreedom.org, please contact our administrator at  dan@aboutfreedom.org to notify us of a suspected violation.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the general terms of use of the site, you may contact us by email at  webmaster at aboutfreedom.org.
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