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Beta Privacy Policy (last revised February 16th, 2016)
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Forum knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Policy explains the type of information Forum collects through its website and browser extension and what we do with it. This policy may change from time to time.
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Forum enables social internet activity in order to help people communicate, understand trends, discover new content, and make better online decisions.
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What Personal Information About Users Does Forum Gather?
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The information we receive from users enables online dialogue and helps us continually improve and provide information about Internet trends, website popularity, new and exciting topics, and related content. Here are the types of information we gather:
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Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website. This includes your email address, password, handles, and blurb. We primarily use the information that you provide for customizing our service and communicating with you. When you write a comment on any site, we store the comment and the associated web address - making it available for a period of 30 days. This duration will be reset when you or another user comments within that thread.
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Automatic Information We Collect From the extension: When you use the extension, we collect the web addresses of the websites you visit. We do not store this information if you leave the site.
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What About Cookies?
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Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer through your browser and through our extension to enable our systems to recognize your browser.
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The browsers' Help function will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
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Does Forum Share the Information it Receives?
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Handles, blurbs, comments and associated web addresses are all visible to our users. This information is not available to outside parties.
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How Secure Is Information About Me?
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Forum uses commercially reasonable computer security safeguards to protect its databases and servers against risks of loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification, or inadvertent or improper disclosure of data. Drew Stephens would be happy to elaborate.
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We actively work with tools developed by Mixpanel, Heroku, Logmatic.io, New Relic, Pingdom, and SendGrid to bring this service to you.
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