Privacy Policy

Summary

If you only read the CashCommons.com website ("the website"), there is no more information collected about you than is normally collected by web sites in general in their server logs and by analytical programs like Google Analytics.

If you contribute to the CashCommons.com site, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be kept forever. This includes questions, answers, and comments. Some limited exceptions are described below.

Publishing on CashCommons.com and public data

Using the website does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below) unless you explicitly identify yourself by name or other identifying information, like an email address. Additionally, users may deduce your identity should you make your user name the same as on another site; this we cannot control.

Identification of an author

When you publish a question, answer, or comment in the site, you may be logged in or not.

If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account. By default this is "unknown (Provider)" where "Provider" would be your OpenID provider, such as Google. Additionally, your Gravatar associated with the email address in your profile area will be shown.

If you have not logged in, you will not be identified unless you ask or answer a question. In that case, you will only be identified publicly by the pseudonym you choose to use, and a Gravatar image that is tied to your supplied email address if you have chosen to set that up. However, you may also be traceable by your IP address. Depending on your connection, this number may be traceable only to a large internet service provider, or specifically to your school, place of business, or home. It may be possible that the origin of this IP address could be used in conjunction with any interests you express implicitly or explicitly by contributing to identify you even by private individuals. The site logs your IP address and it is visible to administrators, moderators, developers, and anyone with private access to the CashCommons.com database. It is not visible to other users not in one of the aforementioned groups.

Cookies, web beacons, and the DoubleClick DART cookie

The site will set a temporary session cookie whenever you visit the site. You may deny this cookie, but your pseudonym from one question to another cannot be tracked without it.

More cookies may be set when you log in, to associate your OpenID with your CashCommons.com account. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your user name to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache as well.)

Google, Inc., as either a potential or actual third party vendor, will use cookies as it serves ads on this site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Collection of non-personally-identifiable information by third parties

Third parties (including advertising services) may be placing and reading cookies on your browser in the normal course of providing services to this website. Some services on this site also may use web beacons (tiny small transparent images) to collect information in the course of providing services to this website. Your web browser should have options to manage cookies should this be desirable. Consult your browser’s help section for information on viewing, setting, and changing these options. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies 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.

Passwords

Thanks to the OpenID technology, CashCommons.com site does not store your password.

Private logging

Every time you visit a web page, you send a lot of information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. It is not the intention of CashCommons.com to use this information to keep track of legitimate users. However, CashCommons.com is hosted by a company called Fog Creek Software. Ultimately they run the servers and you should contact them with questions about their privacy policy should you have them.

CashCommons.com uses a service called Google Analytics to track aggregate usage of the site. This is performed by placing a small javascript program in the bottom of each page which instructs your browser to send a small amount of information to the Google Analytics service each time a page is loaded. You can turn it off by disabling javascript or blocking google-analytics.com. This information is used to produce site statistics which help us to know how much traffic we are getting, what other sites it is coming from, including what search terms are being used to find the site, and even how long the average user stays on the site. We use this information to improve the site and not to identify anyone personally.

Sharing information with third parties

Except where otherwise specified, all text contributed to the moms4mom.com site is available for reuse under the terms of the CC-BY-SA License.

Doppler Shift LLC will not sell, share, or lease private information, such as email addresses, with third parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law to release the information.

Security of information

Doppler Shift LLC makes no guarantee against unauthorized access to any information you provide on CashCommons.com. This information will be available to all developers with access to the servers, and those developers do not work directly for us. Interested parties are encouraged to contact Fog Creek Software with question and concerns regarding their information security practices.

User usage data

Data on user activity, such as the times at which they edited and the number of edits they have made are publicly available through the site along with the contributions themselves, and occasionally in aggregated forms.

The IP address of a user is available to administrators, moderators, developers, and anyone with private access to the CashCommons.com database. We use this information to detect unusual activity that interferes with the smooth operation of CashCommons.com, such as one logging in under multiple accounts from the same computer.

Removal of accounts

User accounts can be suspended (for misuse) by a moderator or deleted completely.

Deleted content is recoverable

Deleting text from CashCommons.com does not necessarily delete it. Previous versions of the content may be available to certain users, administrators, and developers of CashCommons.com, and anyone with private access to the CashCommons.com database. If a question is "deleted", any administrator or moderator, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Even in the case of an accidental deletion, there are backups.

This privacy policy was based on the Moms4Mom.com Privacy Policy which is available under the CC-BY-SA license, and therefore so is the text of this privacy policy.