This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information” by Creative Commons Corporation (“CC” or “Creative Commons”), a Massachusetts Corporation, with its principal place of business at 171 Second St, Suite 300, San Francisco, 94150, USA, through the websites that Creative Commons operates athttps://creativecommons.net(the “ccNet Website”),//www.familygiver.com, andhttp://sciencecommons.org, (collectively, together with all sub-domains thereof, the “Websites”). Any “personal information” that Creative Commons collects via our ccMixter site (http://ccmixter.org) is handled in accordance with our ccMixter Privacy Policy (http://ccmixter.org/privacy).
This Privacy Policy also explains our commitment to you with respect to our use and disclosure of non personal browsing and site usage data that Creative Commons collects as the provider of the Websites and an OpenID service provider. That commitment is contained in a “Data Usage Policy,” below.
As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address.
By accessing the Websites or using Creative Commons as your OpenID service provider, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Our Principles
卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析创作共用承诺负责任地处理我们通过我们的网站收集的有关您的信息和数据，无论是个人信息或非个人浏览和网站使用数据。We have designed our Privacy Policy and our Data Usage Policy consistent with the following principles (the “Principles”):
- Privacy policies and data collection and use policies should be human readable, comprehensive, and easy to locate;
- Only the minimum amount of information reasonably necessary to provide you with services should be collected and maintained, and only for so long as reasonably needed;
- 您通过我们的网站提供的信息，或我们因您使用我们的网站或OpenID服务而收集的信息，不应用于营销或广告目的，也不应自愿(未经您的许可)向任何人提供，除非有要求;and
- Unless restricted or prohibited by law, you should be notified when Creative Commons is required to provide a third party with your personal information.
Personal Information CC Collects
We collect personal information at several places on the Websites, including without limitation:
- in connection with your selection of one of our licenses, your selection of a Public Domain Dedication or your application for Founder’s Copyright;
- when you provide us with your personal information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or our events listing;
- when you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists or establish a Wiki account;
- when you donate money to us or purchase merchandise; and
- when you join the Creative Commons network through our ccNet Website, and when you thereafter create/edit your profile page, identify your content, share your story, and/or establish a Creative Commons OpenID.
What CC does with the Personal Information
License/Tool Selection.We use the personal information you provide to us as part of your selection of one of our licenses to provide you the RDF, html, and the Uniform Resource Locator that correspond to the license you selected. Your email address is expunged after this email has been successfully sent. If you choose a Public Domain Dedication, we use your personal information to provide you with the dedication information, and your email address and other information is expunged from our logs after this email has been successfully sent. If you apply for a Founder’s Copyright, we use and retain your personal information to provide you with the relevant agreement, to process your application and manage your Founder’s Copyright. We may use all of this information to maintain license usage data.
Emails and Newsletters．当您向我们发送电子邮件或注册接收我们的通讯或活动列表以响应您的请求时，我们使用您向我们提供的个人信息——例如，回复您的电子邮件或向您发送与创作共用协议相关的新闻和事件的通信。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析
When you subscribe to our newsletter, events list or one of our email discussion lists, your name and email address is sent to and stored byibiblio.org(http://www.ibiblio.org/), a collaboration between the Center for the Public Domain (http://www.
Donations．当您向我们捐款或通过我们的支持页面购买商品时，您的个人信息将以两种方式之一处理，具体取决于您选择哪一种方式。
- If you purchase a t-shirt or other merchandise from Creative Commons, we will use your personal information for the purpose of sending you the items you purchased.
- You may donate money to Creative Commons directly or through a variety of on-line payment sites, including PayPal, the Amazon Honor System, Just-Give.org, Good Search, Network for Good, and Mission Fish, among others. When you use any of those websites and services to donate to CC, your personal information is sent to, handled by and stored by those websites in accordance with their respective privacy policies and terms of use. You should read and understand the privacy policy and terms of use of any website you use to donate to Creative Commons. When you donate money to Creative Commons directly, we use your personal information to process your donation.
无论您以何种方式向知识共享网站捐款或购买t恤或其他商品，我们还将使用您提供的个人信息与您联系，以卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析了解与知识共享网站相关的最新消息和活动。当我们在您捐款后第一次与您联系时，我们将使用合理的方式让您选择不再以这种方式联系我们。当您作为CC的筹款活动的一部分捐款时，除非您另有要求，否则您的名字将被公布在我们的“支持者页面”上。
ccNet Website．当您加入我们的网络时，您需要提供个人信息来创建您的帐户、建立密码和个人资料，以及创建一个OpenID。我们使用这些个人信息建立和维护您的账户，为您提供我们为账户持有人提供的功能，作为您的OpenID服务提供商，并就创作共用协议相关的最新消息和活动与您联系。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析
通过加入知识共享网络，您还可以卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析获得一个公开的个人资料页面，在这里您可以发布个人信息供公众查看。您在您的公众资料页面上提交的信息，包括但不限于您在“您的CC Story”字段中提供的信息以及您上传的任何照片或图像，is posted by you at your discretion (although subject to CC’sTerms of Use). The information you publish on your public profile page, including your personal information, may be used by anyone who views that information for any lawful purpose, with the exception of the text you insert in the “Your CC Story” field and any photograph or image of yourself that you upload, which if you choose to provide in either case must be licensed under and becomes subject to the terms and conditions of theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, as stated on the Edit Profile page. CC may use the personal and non personal information you provide in your public profile, including the text in the “Your CC Story” field (subject to the terms of that license), to promote the mission of Creative Commons and the ccNet Website.
Any other personal information that we may collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.
Disclosures of Personal Information
In general, it is not Creative Commons’ practice to disclose personal information to third parties. We may share personal information in two instances:
- First, Creative Commons may share personal information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the Websites or the OpenID service.
- 第二，我们可能会向第三方披露您的个人信息，并善意相信该等披露对于(a)针对涉嫌非法活动采取行动是合理必要的;(b)执行或适用我们的使用条款和隐私政策;(c)遵守法律程序，如搜查令、传票、法规或法院命令;或(d)保护我们或我们的用户、关联公司或公众的权利、声誉和财产。
If Creative Commons is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then CC will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or CC is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.
Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites; OpenID
Creative Commons has implemented reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that Creative Commons stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites if any such security breach occurs.
OpenID, including Creative Commons OpenID services, has security risks in addition to those described above. Among other things, OpenID is vulnerable to DNS attacks, and using OpenID may increase the risk of phishing. SeeAbout OpenIDfor more information about the types and levels of risks associated with OpenID.
Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information
Our Data Usage Policy covers how we maintain and use information about you that is collected by our Websites and server logs, including when you log into a website using your Creative Commons OpenID.
Non Personal Information We Collect．当您使用网站时，我们的服务器(可能由第三方服务提供商托管)可能会在访问网站时间接和自动地(例如通过使用您的“IP地址”)收集有关您活动的信息，以及有关您使用的浏览器的信息。此外，每当您使用创作共用开放id登录网站时，我们的服务器(同样，可能由卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析第三方服务提供商托管)会记录您访问的网站以及您访问这些网站的时间。
No Linking．我们不会有意将浏览信息或来自OpenID服务器日志的信息与您提交给我们的个人信息联系起来。我们仅将此信息用于内部目的，例如帮助了解网站的使用情况、改进我们的网站和我们提供的功能，以及用于系统管理目的。出于同样的目的，CC可能会通过运营我们的网站，使用第三方分析提供商来帮助我们收集和分析非个人信息;但是，我们绝不会使用第三方分析供应商通过我们作为OpenID服务提供商的运营来收集或分析任何信息。
No Selling or Sharing．除本隐私政策确定的特殊情况外，创作共用不会向第三方出售或以其他方式自愿提供我们收集的有关您或您的网站使用情况的非个人信息。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析
No Access．作为一个OpenID服务提供商，CC可以从技术上访问与我们的OpenID服务绑定的基于web的帐户，并可以代表其任何OpenID用户登录到他们使用创作共用OpenID访问的任何帐户。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析除非法律另有要求，知识共享将永远不会将此技术登录功能用于任何目的。
No Retention．一旦我们将OpenID服务器日志中的非个人信息用于上述所述的有限目的，在“无链接”下，CC将丢弃这些信息。
Notice．如果创卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析作共用被要求向第三方提供您的非个人信息或代表OpenID用户登录(无论是通过传票还是其他方式)，则CC将使用合理的方式及时通知您该事件，除非法律禁止CC这样做，或根据法律顾问的建议，CC不建议通知您。
Any other non-personal information that we collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.
Reorganization or Spin-Offs
Creative Commons may transfer some or all of your personal and/or non personal information to a third party as a result of a reorganization, spin-off or similar transaction. Upon such transfer, the acquirer’s privacy policy will apply. In such event, Creative Commons will use reasonable efforts to notify you and to ensure that at the time of the transaction the acquirer’s privacy policy complies with the Principles.
Children
Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Any person who provides their personal information to CC through the Websites represents that they are 13 years of age or older.
Third-Party Sites
The Websites may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.
Special Note to International Users
网站的主机设在美国。如果您从欧盟、亚洲或任何其他地区访问本网站，这些地区的个人数据收集、使用和披露的法律或法规与美国法律不同，请注意，您正在将您的个人数据转移到美国，因为美国与欧盟和其他地区没有相同的数据保护法律。By providing your personal data you consent to:
- the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and
- 如上所述，将您的个人数据转移到美国。
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
Questions?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email atinfo@www.familygiver.com．
Effective Date: October 15, 2008 (Prior Privacy Policy)