My Linux Gang's Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the My Linux Gang site (together with all of its content and its services available through the www.mylinuxgang.com domain and subdomains, the "Site"). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this Site.

This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Use and Community Rules . If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy then please do not access or otherwise use the Site, the Site's services or any information contained herein.

Introduction

We are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us.

"Personal Information" means your email address, your password and any information that may be used to identify an individual. Other than your email and password being submited through the Sign In page, Sign Up page, Account Info Tab on the Update Profile page or the Password Reminder page, any information, video, image, data, text, documents, or other content posted at the direction of user onto the Site becomes publicly published content and will be available to all users of the Site even if such content contains Personal Information.

Please note that if you publish your contact information, you may receive unsolicited messages from users and visitors of the Site. We encourage you to publish only information you are sure you want to be accessible to anyone. 

Currently, we do not require you to provide Personal Information in order to have access to information available on our Site. However, in order to provide you with some of the services given under the Site, you must create an account ("Account") and provide us with your email address, username and password that you will use for your Account and other specified information. Your username will be visible to all other users and visitors while you are using our Site's services. You may, if you wish, choose an anonymous username. You can change your username but please note that some pages on the Site may still reference your old username.

The Way We Use Personal Information

We shall use your e-mail address that you provide us when you sign up for the Site and its services for sending new passwords should you forget your current one and for getting notifications about activities you have subscribed to. Please note that some actions you take, such as replying to a topic, posting comments, etc. may subscribe you automatically to getting notifications to your email. Please further note that some notifications, such as a notification for receiving a private message, may be enabled by default.

We may transfer your Personal Information within My Linux Gang or to our third-party service providers, but only to provide services on the Site or to you. This information may be transferred to other countries around the world.

Whenever you submit content to the Site, information that might identify the computer used to submit this content including the internet protocol address (IP address) is saved on our system in addition to the submitted content. We and the Moderators (as such term is defined in Site's Terms of Use") can view and use this information to enforce our Site Terms.

Without derogating from any provision of this Privacy Policy, we may view or disclose your Personal Information (including your IP address) or any other information you submitted via the Site and its services if we have a good faith belief that viewing or disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, ii) enforce our Terms of Use including investigations of potential violations thereof, iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of My Linux Gang, its users, yourself or the public.

Specific Functionality

Private Messages
If you are a registered user and have an Account you may send private messages to other registered users of the Site. Any information that you send within such message is visible only to the message recipients. Be aware that the recipients can publish your message's content or any part of it.

Your Profile
If you have an Account you may add more information about yourself, such as pictures, videos, your real name, your age, your location, your occupation or anything else you would like to write about yourself ("Your Profile"), but you are not required to. All the information in Your Profile will be published publicly and all users and visitors of the Site can view Your Profile.
Please note that if you add your contact information on Your Profile, you may receive unsolicited messages from users and visitors of the Site. We encourage you to publish only information you are sure you want to be accessible to anyone.

Cookies  and Other Tracking Technologies

The Site utilizes "cookies" and other tracking technologies to store your preferences and customizations, your login information, information helping in enforcing the Terms, spam protection information and session information.

A "cookie" is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about Site activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall Personal Information previously indicated by a Site user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.

The Site may customize web page content based on your browser type.

Log Files

Like many other websites, this Site makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, clicked pages and any other information your browser may send to us. We may use such information to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the Site, and gather demographic information. Such information is not linked to any information that is Personal Information, with the exception of the IP address which might be used to identify spamming attempts.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve 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 at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our Site. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on this Site and is sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

This Site has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. This Site's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Choice

You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to My Linux Gang. If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit most of the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services that involve our interaction with you.

Access/Accuracy

To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, My Linux Gang wishes to maintain accurate Personal Information. You may check your profile and add information, delete information or correct any incorrect information.

Links to Other Sites

Our Site may contain links to other sites. Other sites may also reference or link to our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.

Children's Privacy

The Site is not structured to attract children under the age of 13. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your Personal Information is treated, transferred, or used.

Commitment

If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us. While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.

Your Consent

By using this Site, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and to My Linux Gang's processing of Personal Information for the purposes given above. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change this Privacy Policy at any time, which change will be effective 10 days following the modification. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of My Linux Gang who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us.
Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year.