Thursday, March 11, 2010

Terms of Use


PRIVACY

Thank you for vis­it­ing AnnLi­uBlog Inter­net web site (“Site”) located at the URL www.annliublog.com.

AnnLiuBlog.com has cre­ated this pri­vacy state­ment in order to demon­strate our firm com­mit­ment to privacy.

This Pri­vacy Pol­icy details cer­tain poli­cies imple­mented through­out AnnLi­uBlog gov­ern­ing AnnLiuBlog’s use of per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion pro­vided to AnnLi­uBlog via this Site. The fol­low­ing dis­closes our infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing and dis­sem­i­na­tion prac­tices for this web­site: AnnLiuBlog.com.

We use your IP address to help diag­nose prob­lems with our server, and to admin­is­ter our Web site.

This site con­tains links to other sites. AnnLiuBlog.com is not respon­si­ble for the pri­vacy prac­tices or the con­tent of such Web sites.

Pri­vacy Pol­icy Updates

Due to the Internet’s rapidly evolv­ing nature, AnnLi­uBlog may need to update this Pri­vacy Pol­icy from time to time. If so, AnnLi­uBlog will post its updated Pri­vacy Pol­icy on our Site located at www.annliublog.com so you are always aware of what per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion we may col­lect and how we may use this infor­ma­tion. AnnLi­uBlog encour­ages you to review this Pri­vacy Pol­icy reg­u­larly for any changes. Your con­tin­ued use of this Site will be sub­ject to the then cur­rent Pri­vacy Policy.

Pub­lic Forums

This site may make chat rooms, forums, mes­sage boards, and/or news groups avail­able to its users. Please remem­ber that any infor­ma­tion that is dis­closed in these areas becomes pub­lic infor­ma­tion and you should exer­cise cau­tion when decid­ing to dis­close your per­sonal information.

Infor­ma­tion Col­lec­tion and Use

We respect your right to per­sonal pri­vacy. You can gen­er­ally visit our Site with­out reveal­ing any per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion about your­self. How­ever, in cer­tain sec­tions of this Site, to use cer­tain ser­vices, we may require you to reg­is­ter for an account, or we may invite you to sub­mit ques­tions or com­ments or request infor­ma­tion, par­tic­i­pate in sur­veys, ques­tion­naires or con­tests, sub­scribe to newslet­ters or par­tic­i­pate in com­mu­nity forums. Due to the nature of some of these activ­i­ties, we may ask that you com­plete and sub­mit an online form with per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion such as your name, user­name, email address, con­tact infor­ma­tion and credit card infor­ma­tion. This state­ment applies solely to infor­ma­tion col­lected on this website.

We may use your per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to deliver cer­tain ser­vices, prod­ucts or infor­ma­tion you have requested, ver­ify your author­ity to enter cer­tain pass­word pro­tected areas of the Site, send you notices for prod­ucts and/or ser­vices that you have used or that may be of inter­est to you, and improve the con­tent and gen­eral admin­is­tra­tion of the Site.

If you are a reg­is­tered user and post to any of the Site’s com­mu­nity forums, other reg­is­tered users of this Site may view your user­name and may send you emails, but they will not be able to see your actual email address. We may use your per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to send you adver­tise­ments and other pro­mo­tional infor­ma­tion regard­ing our prod­ucts and ser­vices or the prod­ucts and ser­vices of our third party mar­ket­ing part­ners and other com­mu­ni­ca­tions related to the Site.

We are com­mit­ted to keep­ing all your per­sonal details safe and secure. Our pri­vacy pol­icy strictly pro­tects the secu­rity of your per­sonal infor­ma­tion and hon­ors your choices for its intended use. We care­fully pro­tect your data from loss, mis­use, unau­tho­rized access or dis­clo­sure, alter­ation, or destruction.

How We Con­trol Your Per­sonal Information

We will not use your per­sonal infor­ma­tion for any other rea­son other than to con­tact you. We do not sell, give away or rent your email address to any third party. If in the future I did for any rea­son wish to rent, sell or use your email address for any other pur­pose we will ask you for your per­mis­sion first.

Children’s Pri­vacy

AnnLi­uBlog rec­og­nizes the pri­vacy inter­ests of chil­dren and we encour­age par­ents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activ­i­ties and inter­ests. No per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion is col­lected by AnnLi­uBlog and Site are not intended for chil­dren under the age of 13. AnnLi­uBlog does not tar­get its ser­vices or this Site to chil­dren under 13. AnnLi­uBlog does not know­ingly col­lect per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion from chil­dren under the age of 13.

Dis­clo­sure

The con­tents of this web site and blog is writ­ten and edited by me, Ann Liu.

For some post, the com­pen­sa­tion I receive as a refer­rer to pro­vide opin­ion on prod­ucts, ser­vices, web­sites and var­i­ous other top­ics does NOT affect the top­ics or posts I make in this blog.

I abide word of mouth mar­ket­ing stan­dards, I believe in hon­esty of rela­tion­ship, opin­ion and identity.

The views and opin­ions expressed on this blog are purely on my own. I am NOT a prod­uct launch mon­ger who pro­motes every prod­uct that hits the mar­ket regard­less good or bad.

Myself, I always pro­vide my hon­est opin­ions, find­ings, beliefs, or expe­ri­ences on those top­ics or products.

Any prod­uct claim, sta­tis­tic, quote or other rep­re­sen­ta­tion about a prod­uct or ser­vice should be ver­i­fied with the man­u­fac­turer, mer­chant, provider or party in question.

Con­tact­ing the Web Site

If you have any ques­tions about this pri­vacy state­ment, the prac­tices of this site, or your deal­ings with this Web site, feel free to con­tact con­tact us.

Dis­claimer

AnnLiuBlog.com does not rep­re­sent or endorse the accu­racy or reli­a­bil­ity of any of the infor­ma­tion, con­tent or adver­tise­ments con­tained on, dis­trib­uted through, or linked, down­loaded or accessed from any of the ser­vices con­tained on this web­site, nor the qual­ity of any prod­ucts, infor­ma­tion or other mate­ri­als dis­played, pur­chased, or obtained by you as a result of an adver­tise­ment or any other infor­ma­tion or offer in or in con­nec­tion with the ser­vices herein. You hereby acknowl­edge that any reliance upon any Mate­ri­als shall be at your sole risk. AnnLiuBlog.com reserves the right, in its sole dis­cre­tion and with­out any oblig­a­tion, to make improve­ments to, or cor­rect any error or omis­sions in any por­tion of the Ser­vice or the Materials.

THE SERVICE AND THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED BY AnnLiuBlog.com ON ANAS ISBASIS, AND AnnLiuBlog.com EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL AnnLiuBlog.com BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AND THE PRODUCTS.

AnnLiuBlog.com respects the rights (includ­ing the intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights) of oth­ers, and we ask our users to do the same. AnnLiuBlog.com may, in appro­pri­ate cir­cum­stances and in its sole dis­cre­tion, ter­mi­nate the accounts of users that infringe or oth­er­wise vio­late such rights of others.