Privacy Policy
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| 4 | 4 | - We don't share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. |
| 5 | 5 | - We don't store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services. (For example: we don't save comments that get submitted to our Akismet comment spam blocking service unless they were marked as false positives; in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.) |
| 6 | 6 | - 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. |
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| 8 | 8 | Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: |
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| 10 | (Note, we've decided to make the below Privacy Policy available under a **Creative Commons Sharealike** license, which means you're more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we'd appreciate a link to WordPress.com somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn't need to do the same.) | |
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| 10 | 12 | Automattic Inc. ("**Automattic**") operates several websites including [automattic.com](http://www.automattic.com/), [wordpress.com](http://www.wordpress.com/) and [akismet.com](http://www.akismet.com/). It is Automattic's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. |
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| 12 | 14 | ### Website Visitors |
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| 14 | 16 | Like most website operators, Automattic 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. Automattic's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Automattic's visitors use its website. From time to time, Automattic may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. |
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