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Privacy Policy

The Chapeau Blog Awards ("Site", "We", "Us") operates a Web site located at http://www.chapeaublogawards.com (the "Site") from which users can gather information concerning news, entries and communications provided by Chapeau Blog Awards. This Chapeau Blog Awards Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you access the Site.

Information Collection and Use
When you submit a comment, BlogOh!Pedia addition, vote for a blog award, or enter for a blog award, we may require submission of some or all of the following: you name, email address, phone number, mailing address, URL, company, title and credit card information (if pertinent).

This allows us to send you a private message, credit your authorship, provide you with necessary information, or alert you to the status of your award entry.  We also maintain information for the provided reasons:

Chapeau Blog Awards requires that you provide your email address on the contact us section of the Site so that we are able to respond to your question(s) by email. You have the option of also providing information regarding your name, demographics (such as your state and country of residency), operating system, browser, Internet service provider (ISP), connection type and email program that you are using.

Chapeau Blog Awards also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP Address and the page you requested. Your IP address is not linked to your email address or Chapeau Blog Awards.

IP Addresses
When your Web browser or email application requests a Web page from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where the requested information should be sent. This is called your computer's IP address. (IP stands for Internet protocol.) For most users accessing the Internet from a dial-up ISP, the IP address may be different every time you log on.

Chapeau Blog Awards receives your IP address each time you view a Web page from the Site. Your IP address is not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information. Your IP address may be used for various purposes, including:

To diagnose service or technology problems reported by you that are associated with your IP address.

To estimate the total number of users visiting the Site from specific locales, countries or regions of the world.

Log Files
When a Web page on the Site is requested, that request (including the date and time) is logged on our servers with information including the IP address of the computer that requested the page.

We use log files for debugging and troubleshooting purposes. IP addresses and access times are not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information.

Cookies
If you request certain content from us, Chapeau Blog Awards may then attempt to set cookies on your computer and later access those cookies. You can normally refuse cookies by setting preferences in your browser. You do not need to accept cookies in order to use Chapeau Blog Awards Services.

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Web site's computer and then stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot obtain information from your hard drive, destroy files, or transmit viruses.

Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser, if your browser's preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser normally only permits a Web site to access cookies that it has previously sent to you, but not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Choices About Cookies
You can normally configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)

If you reject all cookies, you will still be able to access Chapeau Blog Award content.

Cookies are used only as an option selected by you that allows us to recall your email address from the cookie that we sent to your computer.

Information Collection and Use Practices
In certain areas of this Site, we require that you provide us with personally-identifiable information, in order to be able to use that portion or those portions of this Site. For instance, the names and contact information of persons who visit our Web sites are added to our database so that, for example, they may be contacted in the future regarding Chapeau Blog Awards information or future opportunities. Such contact may occur by email, telephone or mail, as Chapeau Blog Awards deems appropriate.

Chapeau Blog Awards uses your email address for the following purposes:

To send you a private message, credit your authorship, provide you with necessary information, or alert you to the status of your award entry, in addition to communicating with you concerning problems or malfunctions you report.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Chapeau Blog Awards will not share your email address, first or last name, mailing address, or other received information to anyone, except as stated below:

We may disclose personally identifiable information about you as legally required in order for us to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
Chapeau Blog Awards may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Site.

Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, send an .

Data Storage/User Information
All Chapeau Blog Awards entry information (including name and mailing addresses) and content of email messages are stored on multiple redundant disk storage systems. No removable offline copies or backups are made.

If you request deletion of your email address or any other identifiable information, your information will be deactivated and removed from our user registration database within 30 days.

In reviewing the information above, please keep in mind that Chapeau Blog Awards cannot and does not assume any responsibility for any actions or omissions of third parties, including other Site users, including the manner in which they might use information received either from Chapeau Blog Awards or independently.

Contact
You can contact Chapeau Blog Awards at: http://www.ChapeauBlogAwards.com

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