Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Centropy 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:

(Note, the below is based on the Privacy Policy created by Automattic and made available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you're more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use.)

Centropy LLC ("Centropy") operates several websites including Centropy.com and dibs.net. It is Centropy’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

Centropy also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and IP geographic location. Centropy 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 Centropy’s websites choose to interact with Centropy in ways that require Centropy to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Centropy gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at dibs.net to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Centropy are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Centropy collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Centropy. Centropy 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

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

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Centropy 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 Centropy’s behalf or to provide services available at Centropy’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 Centropy’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Centropy 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, Centropy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Centropy believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Centropy, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Centropy website and have supplied your email address, Centropy 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 Centropy 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. Centropy 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. Centropy uses cookies to help Centropy identify and track visitors, their usage of Centropy website, and their website access preferences. Centropy visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Centropy’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Centropy’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Centropy may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Centropy’s sole discretion. Centropy encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a dibs.net account, you should also check your account’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.