Privacy Watchers

This is PrivacyWatchers.com, your authoritative source for changes to privacy policies on the web’s biggest sites. All privacy policy changes are made as a blog post and users are encouraged to post comments on the meaning of the changes. Important changes will be flagged and sent to media organizations and to Twitter.

PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 2/1/2011. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

… want we’d appreciate a link to WordPress.com Automattic.com … information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Automattic does only not discloses use logged such in information to identify its visitors, however, user and does commenter not IP disclose such information, other than addresses … discloses personally-identifying information, information as described below. below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left. … personally-identifying information only when in required response to do a so subpoena, by court law, order or other governmental request, … properly without the aid of cookies. Business Transfers If Automattic, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquiror of Automattic may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy. … acceptance of such change. Change log: July 1, 2010: Revised paragraph about IP addresses to explain when they are collected and that commenter IPs are visible to blog administrators … third parties may use cookies January 3, 2011: Added court order and subpoena clarification February 1, 2011: Clarified subpoena language and added Business Transfers paragraph

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 6/18/2010. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

… shouldn’t need to do the same.) If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact our support team. … visitors who sign up for a blog at wordpress.com WordPress.com … Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com WordPress.com … your acceptance of such change. Copyright Change log: October 29, 2009: Added Comments paragraph to explain Akismet comment storage policy March 10, 2009: Added Ads paragraph to alert users that ads from third parties may use cookies © 2005–2010 Automattic Automattic, Inc., Inc. purveyors of fine blogging services since 2005.

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 1/2/2010. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

Home About Us Jobs Blogs Projects … operation of one of our services. (For example: we don’t save comments that get submitted to our Akismet comment spam blocking service 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.) … goals: (Note, we’ve decided to make the this below privacy Privacy Policy policy … 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 Automattic and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Comments Comments and other content submitted to our 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. … such change. Copyright © 2005–2008 2005–2010 … Automattic, Inc. Privacy Policy. Thank you for your time.

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 12/11/2008. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

… websites including automattic.com, wordpress.com wordpress.com, gravatar.com, intensedebate.com,

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 2/22/2008. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

… such change. Copyright © 2005–2007 2005–2008

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 1/1/2007. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

… such change. Copyright © 2005–2006 2005–2007

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://automattic.com/privacy/ on 12/11/2006. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

Home About Us Services Blogs Projects Blogs Plugins Press Contact Services … your acceptance of such change. Automattic Copyright © 2005–2006, 2005–2006 Automattic, Inc.

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://www.nh.gov/disclaimer.html on 10/4/2006. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

Home Visitors Residents Business Government Laws and Rules State Employees Just For Kids ShopNH … New Hampshire collect? Public disclosure Disclosure … “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s university’s … be found and deleted from your computer’s computer’s … policy. While the State of New Hampshire’s Hampshire’s … contained on these sites is done at one’s one’s … directed to: webmaster@nh.gov. Privacy Policy nh.gov | Accessibility privacy Policy policy | Site accessibility Map policy | Contact site Us map | contact us Copyright (c) State of New Hampshire, 2006

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PrivacyWatchers detected changes to http://www.nh.gov/disclaimer.html on 3/25/2005. Below is a summary of the changes (link to full detailed change). Think this is important? Vote below the summary and leave a reply explaining why.

… Notice should be directed to: webmaster@webster.state.nh.us. webmaster@nh.gov.

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