Privacy Policy

• Through the operation of our services, we collect some personal information about you. However, we are careful when soliciting personal information from you and when collecting it.
• Personal information is kept for as long as there is a reason to store it.
• Public sharing, permanent deletion of your account etc. are all under your control with our streamlined system. We strive to make managing these aspects as effortless as possible for you.
• For your personal information, we offer protection from excessive demands by the government.
• Our aim is to maintain complete transparency regarding the usage, gathering, and sharing of your personal information.

Incorporated in these principles is our Privacy Policy, which clarifies them. This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use our websites

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

This is Flushblog.com, and we were the masterminds behind this creation. Our goal is to allow people to fully embrace and leverage the potential of the internet. Our aim is to elevate everyone and provide them the ability to create a dedicated following, potentially transforming it into a career.

Information We Collect

Our Services are enhanced when we collect information about you, which we only do if we deem it necessary. For instance, this may be for the purpose of communicating with you or to improve our Services.

Here's how we obtain the data we need: we take it in through three channels that are sometimes utilized by you, automatically via our Services, or through resources external to us. The details we gather can be approached by examining the following.

Information You Provide to Us:

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

• Basic account information:In order to establish your account, we kindly request some fundamental details from you. For instance, when registering for a Flushblog.com account, it is mandatory to provide an email address and password, as well as either a username or name - these are the only prerequisites. However, if you wish to disclose additional information such as your address or any other personal details, rest assured that they are not obligatory for the creation of a Flushblog.com account.
• Public profile information:We gather the data you give us for your public profile if you have an account with us. If you have an account on Flushblog.com, for instance, your username and any other information you add to your public profile-such as a photo-are included. Please remember that the information on your public profile is just that-public-when choosing what details to provide.
• Payment and contact information:There are various ways in which you may provide us payment information and associated contact information. For example, ifyou earn revenue through Flushblog.com, we’ll collect information to process those payments and contact you.
• Content information:You might provide us with information about you in draft and published content (a blog post or comment that includes biographic information about you).
• Communications with us (hi there!):You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our team about a support question, post a question in our public forums, or sign up for a newsletter like the one we send. When you communicate with us via form, email, phone, Flushblog.com comment, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications (including any call recordings as permitted by applicable law).

Information We Collect Automatically:

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log information:Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services — for example, when you make any activity to your Flushblog.com account.
• Usage information:We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that site administrators and users perform on a site using our Flushblog.com - in other words, who did what and when (e.g., [Flushblog.com username] downloaded/posted a blog at [time/date]). Ourwebsitealso tracks information like your email address, Flushblog.com settings. We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, support document searches, features enabled for your Flushblog.com account, interactions with ourAdmin Barand other parts of our Services) along with information about your device (e.g., screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.
• Location information:We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.

Information We Collect from Other Sources:

We may also get information about you from other sources. For example:

• Third Party Login:If you create or log in to your Flushblog.com account through another service (like Google) we’ll receive associated login information (e.g. a connection token, your username, your email address)
• Social Sharing Services:If you connect your website or account to a social media service, we’ll receive information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile information, friends list) via the authorization procedures for that service.

The information we receive depends on which services you use or authorize and what options are available. Third-party services may also give us information, like mailing addresses for individuals who are not yet our users (but we hope will be!). We use this information for marketing purposes like postcards and other mailers advertising our Services.

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

• To provide our Services.For example, to set up and maintain your account, backup and restore your account, provide customer service, process payments and orders, and verify user information.
• To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services.For example, by providing automatic upgrades and new versions of our Services. Or, for example, by monitoring and analysing how users interact with our Services so we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy and that will help them create and manage websites more efficiently or make our Services easier to use.
• To place and manage ads in our advertising program.For example, to place ads on our users’ sites and some of our own sites as part of our advertising program, and understand ad performance.
• To protect our Services, our users, and the public.For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of Flushblog.com and others, which may result in us, for example, declining a transaction or terminating Services.
• To fix problems with our Services.For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
• To customize the user experience.For example, to personalize your experience by serving you relevant notifications and advertisements for our Services, recommending content through our Reader post suggestions, and providing new essays and stories for your reading pleasure.
• To communicate with you.For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, or keep you up to date; texting you to verify your payment; or calling you to share offers and promotions that we think will be of interest to you.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

Our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfil our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account - for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information - for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given us your consent - for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyse them later on.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy. These are spelled out below, as well as in the section calledAds and Analytics Services Provided by Others:

• Subsidiaries and independent contractors:We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any personal information that we share with them.
• Third-party vendors:We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you.
• Legal and regulatory requirements:We may disclose information about you in response to summon, court order, or other governmental request.
• To protect rights, property, and others:We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Flushblog.com, third parties, or the public at large.
• Business transfers:In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that we goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• With your consent:We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties when you authorize us to do so.
• Published support requests:If you send us a request for assistance (for example, via a support email or one of our other feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other users.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it - described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information - and we’re not legally required to keep it.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.