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The privacy of visitors to Religion News Blog (religionnewsblog.com) is important to us.
Therefore we want to let you know what types of personal information we and third parties receive and collect when you visit religionnewsblog.com, and how we safeguard your information.
Religion News Blog collects two kinds of information:
1) anonymous information, and
2) information you decide to provide.
In addition, several third party services also collect information. See below for details.
We never sell, trade, share or barter any personal information.
Affilite Links
Religion News Blog (RNB) is provided to you free of charge. To help defray the costs of operating this website, we use affiliate programs such as Amazon.com, Booking.com, and Google Adsense.
Religion News Blog is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and/or Amazon.es.
Our editorial decisions are not influenced by our advertisers, advertising programs, and/or affiliate programs.
About Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device. What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
What types of cookies does ReligionNewsBlog.com use?
There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” Religion News Blog routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.
Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and experiment with new features and changes on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service works.
Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, whether you made an edit to an article on the Service while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of Service tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Service to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve customized the Service in other ways, such as customizing the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.
Targeting Cookies. ReligionNewsBlog.com, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than Religion News Blog. This information may be shared with organizations outside ReligionNewsBlog.com, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.
How long will cookies stay on my device?
The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
First and third party cookies
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to ReligionNewsBlog.com, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for ReligionNewsBlog.com, for example to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.
How to control and delete cookies
If you want to delete cookies follow the instructions at WikiHow. If you wish to disable your browser from receiving cookies follow these instructions at the same site. Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our Service and other parts of our Service may not work properly. You can find out more information cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Anonymous Information
Anonymous information allows us to track the usage of this web site.
How many people visited? How many pages were read? Which pages are those? From which country did a visitor come? What type of browser did that visitor use? Does the browser have Flash and/or javascript enabled? Did the visitor come to the site via a search engine? If so, which one? And with which search query?
The information can also include your IP address and the name of your internet service provider.
Such information is used for statistical purposes, as well as to determine which parts of the website (or which topics) are more popular than others.
All these types of information are collected in two ways:
- In the log files of the web server that hosts this web site
- Via third party web site usage tracking services
- Via cookies and web beacons used by advertisers
Information you provide
In only two instances will we ask you to provide personal information in the form of an email address:
- When you use our contact form
- When you sign up for the Headlines via Email service
Use of the contact form or signing up for the newsletter are completely optional.
The email address you provide when using the contact form is only used to reply to your message, if needed. These addresses are not collected nor shared, sold or rented to/with any third party.
When signing up for the newsletter, the email address you provide to FeedBlitz, the service that sends out the newsletter, is stored to be able to email you your newsletter. Religion News Blog nor FeedBlitz share, sell or rent your email address to any third party.
Other applicable privacy policies
When you visit the Religion News Blog web site you indirectly use some third party services. For instance, we use third party advertisements to support the website. Other third party services provide added value, such as the ability to receive update via email or via an RSS newsreader.
Each of those third party services have their own privacy policy. We encourage you to read those privacy policies to fully answer all your privacy questions.
- Amazon.com: Amazon is used to deliver relevant book titles. Some pages have a special type of Amazon advertisement embedded. Those advertisements take into account other sites that carry Amazon ads, and which you — or someone using your browser — have visited. These type of ads also take into account your buying profile at Amazon.com in order to display ads for books and other products that may be of interest to you. No personal information is shared with us by Amazon.com.
Amazon privacy policy - Google AdSense: Google Adsense is used to deliver text advertisements which pertain either to a specific article, page, category or subject. Google uses cookies — including the DoubleClick DART cookie — when displaying ads on web pages such as ours. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads based on the internet sites you visit, enabling it to serve ads that may match your interests. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics shows us where our visitors come from, and how they interact with the site. No personally identifiable information is shared. In other words, we won’t know who you are, but we’ll know how many people found religionnewsblog.com via, say, a search engine, another website, or a bookmark. Google Analytics also shows us which search terms were used to find out website. All this information helps us to better understand what people like best about our site, and which site promotion efforts work best. See: Google Privacy Policy
- FeedBurner Most of our RSS feeds are routed via FeedBurner. Feedburner is operated by Google Inc., and thus employs Google’s privacy policy. FeedBurner privacy statement
- FeedBlitz: FeedBlitz is a service which takes the last 10 or so headlines from a web site and turns them into an email newsletter. Signup, confirmation and sending out those newsletters for Religion News Blog is handled by FeedBlitz. While you are subscribed to the email newsletter via FeedBlitz your email address is visible to us. However, we do not use those email addresses for any purpose. FeedBlitz privacy policy
- Blogads Some of our advertisements are delivered by Blogads. Blogads privacy policy
- SiteMeter: Web site usage is tracked on Religion News Blog using this service. SiteMeter does not share any personally identifiable information, but it does show us how people arrived at our site (e.g. via which link or search engine), how many pages are visited, and how much time is spent on the site overall. Site Meter privacy policy
External links & privacy
Religion News Blog links to external sites where appropriate. Those sites are not under the editorial control of Religion News Blog and this privacy policy does not extend to those sites. The privacy policies of external sites may be in line with or conflict with this one. It is even possible that some external sites have no privacy policy in place at all.
Questions
If you have any questions regarding the Religion News Blog privacy policy remain, or there is lingering doubt, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
This page was last updated on Apr. 7, 2009, at 11:40 CET