We understand you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the ekjut.com website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personal information that ekjut.com gathers when you are on the ekjut.com website and when you use ekjut.com services.

This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that ekjut.com does not own or control, or to individuals that ekjut.com does not employ or manage.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a friendly, customized, and efficient experience. We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you. We collect the following types of information from our users:

1. Information You Provide to Us:
   We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. The personal information you provide is used for such purposes as:
   • Registration: In order for you to use ekjut.com services, such as submitting new links to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require your email address.
2. Automatic Information:
   • We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. ekjut.com automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, ekjut.com cookie information, and the page you requested. ekjut.com uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
   • ekjut.com may also add on any page display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes member profile pages.
   • Social sharing of data: ekjut.com allows other users to browse stories that you have dugg, submitted, blogged, or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile (ekjut.com.com/users/username), on the ekjut.com spy page (ekjut.com.com/spy) or within the permalink URL of the story in which you performed the action on. ekjut.com may choose to post this data on other site features in the future.
   • Profile information: ekjut.com allows other users to browse your full name, location, and instant messaging URL, within your member profile should you provide this optional information.
   • Syndication: ekjut.com allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website.
   • Friends Data: Much like other social services ekjut.com allows non-friends to browse through your friends activities.
   • API: ekjut.com will allow 3rd parties access to all ekjut.com data this is already publicly available through ekjut.com. Ekjut.com will forever keep private passwords and blog settings.
   • Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While ekjut.com will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Ekjut.com cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
• The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of ekjut.com's most attractive features.
• Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Information about our users is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone. We share your personal information only as described below.

• ekjut.com Personnel:
  ekjut.com personnel (including, for the avoidance of doubt, consultants and/or contractors) may have access to user information while carrying out their duties in the normal course of ekjut.com business.
• Protection of ekjut.com and Others:
  We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of ekjut.com, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• With Your Consent:
  Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your personal information may be shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to prevent the sharing of this information by opting out.

• Your ekjut.com account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
• Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.

You can access your personal information on our website and correct, amend, or delete information that is inaccurate. Upon logging in visit your user profile setting page.

• As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting new links.
• You are able to add or update certain information on pages, such as those listed in the "What Personal Information About Users Does Ekjut.com Collect?" section above. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
• You may request deletion of your ekjut.com account by emailing us at support@ekjut.com.
• As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.

You must be 13 years and older to register to use the ekjut.com website. As a result, ekjut.com does not specifically collect information about children.

ekjut.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the ekjut.com website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.

If you decide to visit ekjut.com website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 1, 2007