Kooi Designs Inc. (“Kooi Designs”) operates several websites including kooidesigns.com, feedthedragon.net, and jameskooi.com. It is Kooi Designs’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Kooi Designs 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. Kooi Designs’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kooi Designs’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Kooi Designs may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Kooi Designs also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Kooi Designs 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 Kooi Designs’s websites choose to interact with Kooi Designs in ways that require Kooi Designs to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Kooi Designs gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at feedthedragon.net to provide a username and email address. In each case, Kooi Designs collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Kooi Designs. Kooi Designs 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
Kooi Designs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Kooi Designs may monitor the most popular blogs on the feedthedragon.net site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Kooi Designs may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Kooi Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Kooi Designs 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 Kooi Designs’s behalf or to provide services available at Kooi Designs’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 Kooi Designs’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Kooi Designs 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, Kooi Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Kooi Designs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kooi Designs, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Kooi Designs website and have supplied your email address, Kooi Designs 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 Kooi Designs and our products. We primarily use our various product 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. Kooi Designs 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. Kooi Designs uses cookies to help Kooi Designs identify and track visitors, their usage of Kooi Designs website, and their website access preferences. Kooi Designs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Kooi Designs’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Kooi Designs’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
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 Kooi Designs and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kooi Designs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Kooi Designs’s sole discretion. Kooi Designs encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a feedthedragon.net account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
