ChianMing.com is firmly committed to the privacy of its registered users. All registered users of the ChianMing website agree to the ChianMing Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. ChianMing does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
This Privacy Policy details important information regarding the use and disclosure of user information collected on the ChianMing.com site.
Information Collection and Use
We collect certain personally identifiable information (such as first name, last name, and email address) from petition authors. These information are viewable by other users of the site. During the petition signing process, similar information (such as first name, last name, and (optional) email address) are also collected from signers. However, signers’ email addresses are never accessible by site visitors except the corresponding petition author. We do not sell, share, or rent any collected information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
ChianMing uses a registered user’s email address for administrative purposes relating to our service (such as notification of new account creation, notification of password change, or other customer services).
Cookies
When you visit ChianMing.com, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the ChianMing site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log Files
When you visit ChianMing.com, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. The logged information is used to diagnose server problems, monitor traffic patterns, analyze trends, administer the website, track member user patterns, and identify the most popular areas of the website to deliver content most relevant to registered users.
Security
ChianMing.com uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of our registered users’ information. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If ChianMing.com learns of a security systems breach, we will attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may also post a notice on the ChianMing.com site if such security breach occurs.
International Users
ChianMing.com is hosted in the United States. If you are a user accessing the ChianMing.com site from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of ChianMing.com, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when we receive the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the ChianMing.com site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.
For revisions to this Privacy Policy that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.
Date Last Modified: This Privacy Policy was last modified on March 1, 2009.
