Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

At The50UnitedStates.com 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 store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
• In our product, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.

It is The50UnitedStates.com's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The50UnitedStates.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. The50UnitedStates.com's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The50UnitedStates.com's visitors use its website. From time to time, The50UnitedStates.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. The50UnitedStates.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The50UnitedStates.com does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information Certain visitors to The50UnitedStates.com's websites choose to interact with The50UnitedStates.com in ways that require The50UnitedStates.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The50UnitedStates.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who sign up for an username and an optional email address. The50UnitedStates.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The50UnitedStates.com. The50UnitedStates.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

The50UnitedStates.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The50UnitedStates.com may monitor the most popular maps and may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The50UnitedStates.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information The50UnitedStates.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 The50UnitedStates.com's behalf or to provide services available at The50UnitedStates.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 The50UnitedStates.com's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The50UnitedStates.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, The50UnitedStates.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when The50UnitedStates.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The50UnitedStates.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a The50UnitedStates.com website and have supplied your email address, The50UnitedStates.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 The50UnitedStates.com and our products, and we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send The50UnitedStates.com 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 The50UnitedStates.com clarify or respond to your request or to help The50UnitedStates.com support other users. The50UnitedStates.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. The50UnitedStates.com uses cookies to help The50UnitedStates.com identify and track visitors, their usage of The50UnitedStates.com website, and their website access preferences. The50UnitedStates.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The50UnitedStates.com's websites, with the drawback that certain features of The50UnitedStates.com's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The50UnitedStates.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The50UnitedStates.com's sole discretion. The50UnitedStates.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.

This privacy policy was graciously appropriated from Automattic who were generous enough to have made it available under a Creative Commons Share Alike license. Visit them at Wordpress.com.