Global Privacy Policy
Sean Hayford O’Leary (“Hayford O’Leary”) operates several websites including hayfordoleary.com, archivemedia.org, and sdho.org. It is Hayford O’Leary’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Hayford O’Leary 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. Hayford O’Leary’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Hayford O’Leary’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Hayford O’Leary may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Hayford O’Leary also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Hayford O’Leary 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 Hayford O’Leary’s websites choose to interact with Hayford O’Leary in ways that require Hayford O’Leary to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Hayford O’Leary gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who register for Archive Media ID to provide an email address and name. In each case, Hayford O’Leary collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Hayford O’Leary. Hayford O’Leary 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.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Hayford O’Leary discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its volunteers, employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Hayford O’Leary’s behalf or to provide services available at Hayford O’Leary’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 Hayford O’Leary’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Hayford O’Leary 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, Hayford O’Leary discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Hayford O’Leary believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Hayford O’Leary, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Hayford O’Leary website and have supplied your email address, Hayford O’Leary 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 Hayford O’Leary 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. Hayford O’Leary 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. Hayford O’Leary uses cookies to help Hayford O’Leary identify and track visitors, their usage of Hayford O’Leary website, and their website access preferences. Hayford O’Leary visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Hayford O’Leary’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Hayford O’Leary’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hayford O’Leary may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Hayford O’Leary’s sole discretion. Hayford O’Leary encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Though reasonable efforts will be made to alert users of signficant changes, your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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