Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to me. At The Orocean Journal™, I have a few fundamental principles:

I do not ask you for personal information unless I truly need it.

I do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop my products, or protect my rights.

I do not store personal information on my site.

Below is my privacy policy, which incorporates these goals:

It is The Orocean Journal™, policy to respect your privacy regarding any form of information, which you may give voluntarily or involuntarily.

Website Visitors

The Orocean Journal™, Website operates through Yahoo! Web Hosting facility. It works under the strict rules and regulations and within the parameters and guidelines of the use of Yahoo! Geocities. At the same time, this website displays Google Ads, which may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by third party advertising companies, click here.

Note: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

The Orocean Journal™ may collect 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. The Orocean Journal™, may also occasionally ask for some information from its visitors, which may reveal some non-personally-identifying information. However, The Orocean Journal™ will use such information exclusively for tracking the website's activities, which is vital to understand how visitors of The Orocean Journal™ use its website. From time to time, The Orocean Journal™, may release non-personally-identifying information taken together, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. The Orocean Journal™ may collect potentially personally identifying information like email addresses. However, the website does not use such information to identify its visitors neither disclose such information to anyone.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Orocean Journal™, websites choose to interact with The Orocean Journal™, in ways that require The Orocean Journal™, to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Orocean Journal™, gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. In each case, The Orocean Journal™ collects such information only insofar as it is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Orocean Journal™. The Orocean Journal™ does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. 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

The Orocean Journal™ may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Orocean Journal™ may monitor the comments on the site or in The Orocean Journal ™ Blog Sites and “The Orocean Chronicle™” Blog Site. The Orocean Journal™ may display this information publicly or share it to others in the form of feedback reports. However, The Orocean Journal™ does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

The Orocean Journal™ may disclose potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information like email addresses only to those that need to know that information like partners or affiliated organizations in order to process it on The Orocean Journal™ behalf or to provide services available at The Orocean Journal™ website and blog sites. However, the website will not do so without the visitor’s permission. The Orocean Journal™ will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone although, The Orocean Journal™ reserves the right to share such information to its partners and affiliated organizations as described above. The Orocean Journal™ discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information when the law requires doing so, or when The Orocean Journal™ believes in good faith, that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Orocean Journal™, third parties or the public at large. If you have supplied this site your email address, The Orocean Journal™ may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what is going on with The Orocean Journal™ and its products or services. I primarily use email addresses to communicate this type of information but I expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email), 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. The Orocean Journal™ 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. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. It uses DART cookie to enable it to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet. Again, if you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by third party advertising companies, click here.

The Orocean Journal™ identifies and track visitors, their usage of The Orocean Journal™ website, and their website access preferences through information the visitors directly give. Still, however, Yahoo! Geocities may send cookies to keep track of the activities of the websites it hosts since it reserves the right to cancel the accounts of inactive websites operating through its facility. The Orocean Journal™ visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Orocean Journal™ websites. However, visitors should understand the drawback that certain features of Yahoo! Geocities may not function properly without the aid of cookies, which may affect The Orocean Journal™ website, which operates through Yahoo! Geocities web hosting facility, the primary generator of this website.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Orocean Journal™ may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Orocean Journal™ sole discretion except in instances that The Orocean Journal™ has to observe strict compliance to the rules or regulations of Yahoo! Geocities! applicable to the hosting of this website. The Orocean Journal™ encourages visitors to check this page frequently 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.

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