Website Visitors

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

Muntz Designs also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Muntz Designs 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 Muntz Designs website choose to interact with Muntz Designs in ways that require Muntz Designs to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Muntz Designs e gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example,  visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Muntz Designs updates via email, I collect their emails. In each case, Muntz Designs collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Muntz Designs. Muntz Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Muntz Designs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Muntz Designs may monitor the most popular pages on the muntzdesigns.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Muntz Designs may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Muntz Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Muntz Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Muntz Designs behalf or to provide services available at Muntz Designs website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Muntz Designs website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Muntz Designs will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Muntz Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Muntz Designs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Muntz Designs , third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Muntz Designs website and have supplied your email address, Muntz Designs may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Muntz Designs and our products. I primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so I 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), I reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Muntz Designs 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. Muntz Designs uses cookies to help Muntz Designs identify and track visitors, their usage of Muntz Designs website, and their website access preferences. Muntz Designs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Muntz Designs website, with the drawback that certain features of Muntz Designs website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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.

Privacy Policy Changes

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