Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At OOMNews, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We do not ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We cannot stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We do not store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, OOMNews 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. OOMNews’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how OOMNews’s visitors use its website. From time to time, OOMNews may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

OOMNews also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. OOMNews only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to OOMNews’s websites choose to interact with OOMNews in ways that require OOMNews to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that OOMNews gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive OOMNews updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, OOMNews collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with OOMNews. OOMNews 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.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

OOMNews will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, as described above, OOMNews discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when OOMNews believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of OOMNews, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an OOMNews website and have supplied your email address, OOMNews 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 OOMNews 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. OOMNews 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. OOMNews uses cookies to help OOMNews identify and track visitors, their usage of OOMNews’s website, and their website access preferences. OOMNews visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using OOMNews’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of OOMNews’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

External Links

You should be aware that other Internet sites that are linked from the OOMNews websites or from OOMNews email messages may contain privacy provisions that differ from the provisions of this Policy. To ensure your privacy is protected, we recommend that you review the privacy statements of these other linked sites, applications, or other digital platforms.

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 OOMNews and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Children

We recognize the particular importance of protecting privacy where children are involved. We do not intend to collect, knowingly collect, sell, or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of 16. We do not target children with our services. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Website or through any of its features. If you believe that a child under the age of 16 may have provided us Personal Data online, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us at mohsin.farooq@oomnews.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

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