This is the privacy policy for all the pages, services and softwares served under Filtrie.com domain. We understand that sharing your blog reading stream through our site is a strong sign of trustness from our users, and we are fully committed to respecting your privacy and to protecting any information you provide to us. We treat both privacy and security as a priority and make every effort to ensure that all the information provided by you is protected.

From time to time, we may update this privacy policy. We will do our best to notify you about changes in the way we treat personal information by placing notice on our site, but we encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it and to whom we disclose it. This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 2010.

How and What Information is Collected

(1) IP Address and Browser Information

The Filtrie web site logs IP addresses for system administration and costumization purposes. Your IP address can help us diagnose service problems, provide session statistics and show customized content to you according to your location. We use Maxmind's GeoIP database to determine where are you coming from, based on your IP address. We also collect information sent by your browser, such as the referring URL and the browser software identification (i.e. the brand and version of your browser software).

(2) Cookies

Filtrie uses a common feature of Web sites known as a cookie to store your member ID and state information about where you are in the site, as well as to track current and past activity. Filtrie does not store any of your personal information in cookies. A cookie is simply a small data file that the Web site writes to your browser. A cookie can't read any other data off your hard drive, pass on a virus, or read cookie files created by other sites. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, however, the Filtrie web site's functionality will be affected.

(3) Registration

In order to take full advantage of most features of the site, you must register and create a member account. Our online registration form require you to provide information such as your email address, a User Name, and a password.

You may also choose to create a more detailed profile of yourself on the Website by submitting additional personal information. Those information, along with your User Name will be avaiable to other users of the Website and to the general public.

(4) Browser Extensions and blog scrobbling

Filtrie.com asks you to install a browser extension to watch your browsing and send to our servers some information related to the pages you are visiting, only if those pages belongs to a blog. Your privacy is protected because the browser extensions works locally, meaning that everything it needs to recognize a site as beeing a blog is done on your own computer, without contacting our servers or 3rd party services.

Filtrie servers automatically connect with your computer only to receive the data about the blogs you are reading. Everything else, such as news sites, home-banking services or your webmail will be completely ignored by our extension, wich will not log anything about those sites neither on your own computer nor at 3rd party servers. The information sent by the extension includes the page Url, how many seconds you spent on that page and other public information avaiable in the blog feed, such as the blog name, the post title and tags associated with that page.

(5) Questions, Comments, and Entries to Open Forums, Blogs and Reviews

Comments and entries to our blogs, forums and reviews are posted in real time. Consequently, your entire submission may appear in an open page. Please be aware that any personal information you include within this entry field will be available to the public. Filtrie will make reasonable attempts to remove personal information included in submissions.

Why Information is Collected

The majority of the information we collect is analyzed so that we can assembly your personal profile page at Filtrie and improve your blog reading experience. You can choose to make your profile page data avaiable to general public or only to registered users or users that you authorize.

If necessary, we will use your information to contact you. Except as permitted by this policy, Blocol does not send unsolicited e-mails.

The purposes for collecting information and contacting you are:

(1) Registration
(2) Fulfilling requests and orders for Filtrie's product and services
(3) Customer service and support
(4) Delivering newsletters, in wich we can ask your opinion about the Website or keep you updated on the services currently available on the Website and any changes to those services and those that we intend to launch in the future
(5) Security reasons (so that we can check that you are who you say you are)
(6) To notify you about user activity, such as new messages or friendship requests.
(7) To recommend content and users that may interested you, according to your blog reading habits.

Your information will not be used for reasons beyond the scope of the stated purposes and Filtrie will never willfully disclose personally identifiable information to a third party outside of the stated purposes unless:

1. You have violated the Terms of Use or another applicable Agreement, or
2. We are required to do so by law, or
3. We provide notification to you

Third Parties
To try and bring you offers that may interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the privacy policies of: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Also, our website contains links to blogs and other websites that are not owned or controlled by Filtrie. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites.

Security
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Your password is a component of our security system. As such, it is your responsibility to protect it. Do not share your password with any third parties. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should change it immediately.

Consent
By disclosing any information to Filtrie through the website or browser extension, and by using our website as a registered user, you are consenting to the collection, storage and use of your personal information by Filtrie as set out in this Policy , and you understand and consent to the collection, maintenance, processing and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other countries and territories. If you do not consent to the collection, maintenance, processing and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other countries and territories, then you should not use the Website as a registered user.