Crate Media LLC (“Crate Media”) operates websites at cratemedia.com and gutensite.com. It is Crate Media’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

Crate Media also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Crate Media does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Crate Media’s websites choose to interact with Crate Media in ways that require Crate Media to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Crate Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a site at gutensite.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Crate Media are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Crate Media collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Crate Media. Crate Media 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

Crate Media may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Crate Media may monitor the most popular sites on the Gutensite.com site. Crate Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Crate Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Crate Media 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 Crate Media’s behalf or to provide services available at Crate Media’s websites, 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 Crate Media’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Crate Media 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, Crate Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Crate Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Crate Media, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Crate Media website and have supplied your email address, Crate Media 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 Crate Media and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we 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), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Crate Media 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. Crate Media uses cookies to help Crate Media identify and track visitors, their usage of Crate Media websites, and their website access preferences. Crate Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Crate Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Crate Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Crate Media may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Crate Media’s sole discretion. Crate Media encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Gutensite.com account, you should also check your site’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.