Your privacy is critically important to us. At Trident Media Groups we have a few fundamental principles:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
In our blogging products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us at info@tridentmediagroups.com
Trident Media Groups, LLC. (“Trident Media Groups”) operates www.tridentmediagroups.com. It is Trident Media Groups’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Like most website operators, Trident Media Groups 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. Trident Media Groups’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Trident Media Groups’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Trident Media Groups may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Trident Media Groups also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Trident Media Groups only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Certain visitors to Trident Media Groups’s websites choose to interact with Trident Media Groups in ways that require Trident Media Groups to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Trident Media Groups gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at WordPress.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Trident Media Groups – by purchasing access to the Akismet comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Trident Media Groups collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Trident Media Groups. Trident Media Groups 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.
Trident Media Groups may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Trident Media Groups may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Trident Media Groups may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Trident Media Groups does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Trident Media Groups 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 Trident Media Groups’s behalf or to provide services available at Trident Media Groups’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 Trident Media Groups’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Trident Media Groups 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, Trident Media Groups discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Trident Media Groups believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Trident Media Groups, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Trident Media Groups website and have supplied your email address, Trident Media Groups 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 Trident Media Groups and our products/services. We primarily use our various product/service 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. Trident Media Groups takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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. Trident Media Groups uses cookies to help Trident Media Groups identify and track visitors, their usage of Trident Media Groups website, and their website access preferences. Trident Media Groups visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Trident Media Groups’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Trident Media Groups’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If Trident Media Groups, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Trident Media Groups goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Trident Media Groups may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Trident Media Groups and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Trident Media Groups may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Trident Media Groups’s sole discretion. Trident Media Groups encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’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.