Privacy Policy:

Coffee or Bust ("Coffee or Bust") operates coffeeorbust.com and may operate other websites. It is Coffee or Bust's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

Coffee or Bust also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on coffeeorbust.com blogs/sites. Coffee or Bust 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 commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

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

Coffee or Bust may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Coffee or Bust may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Coffee or Bust does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Coffee or Bust 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 Coffee or Bust's behalf or to provide services available at Coffee or Bust'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 Coffee or Bust's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Coffee or Bust 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, Coffee or Bust discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Coffee or Bust believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Coffee or Bust, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Coffee or Bust website and have supplied your email address, Coffee or Bust 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 Coffee or Bust and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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. Coffee or Bust 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. Coffee or Bust uses cookies to help Coffee or Bust identify and track visitors, their usage of Coffee or Bust website, and their website access preferences. Coffee or Bust visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Coffee or Bust's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Coffee or Bust's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Coffee or Bust, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Coffee or Bust 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 Coffee or Bust may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

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 Coffee or Bust and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Coffee or Bust may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Coffee or Bust's sole discretion. Coffee or Bust encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a coffeeorbust.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.