Privacy Policy

 

Privacy Policy
 
(Last updated in 12/15/2011)
 
 
At Journal-Of-Life.com (“Journal-Of-Life”) we take your privacy very seriously. Because of this we want to provide you with explicit information on how we collect, gather, and identify information during your visit and registration to the Journal-Of-Life website (the “Website”). This information may be expanded or updated as we change or develop our Website. For this reason, we recommend that you review this policy from time-to-time to see if anything has changed. Your continued use of this Website signifies your acceptance of our privacy policy.
 
During registration, you should submit only true and accurate personal information. The Website Administration agrees not to abuse any information received during registration and not to disclose it. 
 
1. Password
 
The user agrees not to give his/her login and password to anyone else. The owner of a personal account bears all responsibility for damage caused as a result of disclosing the Journal-Of-Life login and password to any third-party. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change it on your My Account page.
 
2. IP Addresses
 
In accordance with common practices accepted by the industry, our Website also collects statistics on customers' IP addresses. This data is used to improve our Services and also helps us to identify and better solve technical problems. Information on IP addresses can also be used to control the legality of payments. The Website Administration agrees not to abuse nor disclose IP address data. During registration, you should submit only true and accurate personal information. The Website Administration agrees not to abuse any information received during registration and not to disclose it under the terms specified here below
 
3. Use of Cookies
 
Our Website uses the common internet industry practice of cookies. Cookies are only used for storing technical identification information after the user's authorization on the Website. Cookies are not used to store any other data (logins, passwords, financial and other information). You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time however this will mean that any settings such as your stored username and password will have to be reset. You can set your internet browser so that it will not allow cookies to be stored on your computer. This may reduce functionality of the site, prevent access to registration/subscription-only areas of the Website and mean that certain features or content will not be available to you, but you will still be able to use our Website. Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can be found on the help menu within your internet browser.
 
4. Personal Information
 
When a user interacts with the Website, certain information accumulates on the personal account of each registered user (e.g., list of downloads, e-mail/ICQ correspondence with the Administration, statistics, etc.). The Website Administration agrees not to abuse this data and not to disclose it (unless agreed with the user beforehand). We may also use the combined information without aggregating it to serve you specifically, for instance to promote a new service to you according to your preferences or restrictions.
 
5. Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information. 
 
We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts will not contain your Personal Information.
 
6. Legal Requests
 
We may decide or be required to disclose information to law enforcement, other government authorities, or third parties under certain circumstances. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you that we, in our sole discretion, believe is necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, infringement of intellectual property rights, third-party lawsuits, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.
 
7. Non-US users
 
If you are a non-U.S. citizen, by subscribing to the Journal-Of-Life service or by providing any personally identifying information as a non-subscriber, you explicitly grant us the right to transfer that information to the United States Government.
 
8. Third-Party Links
 
Some of our memorial websites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Journal-Of-Life is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website
 
9. Financial Information
 
In order to pay for Website Services, the user provides information on the method of payment to a payment transfer company that has a contract with us. The Administration agrees to observe the security and non-dissemination of any financial information on its users.
 
10. Security
 
Journal-Of-Life uses industry standard efforts to safeguard your personally identifying information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers (SSL). However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet and third parties may intercept or access transmissions and/or private communications. Therefore, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifying information or private communications would remain private in all cases. Nevertheless, we will make every effort to make sure that we keep your information safe.
 
11. Other Personal Information
 
It is in the interests of the Administration to keep all information on Website users safe and confidential. Therefore, any personal information not mentioned above shall be stored safely and shall not be disseminated (except in specially noted cases). You agree to use the Services provided by Journal-Of-Life at your own risk and with your personal consent. All Services are provided "as is" without any guarantee obligations on the part of the Administration (apart from those mentioned above). The Administration does not provide you with any guarantee that you will profit or benefit from the use of the Services. You agree NOT to appeal to the Administration due to the quality of the services provided, as well as due to any possible damage you experience as a result of using or accessing our Site.
 
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
 
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy, and recommend that you visit it often. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting them here.