Privacy Policy

About Goelji Community

Goelji Community is an online community of writers, bloggers, reporters and online Journalists. The Goelji Network, launched as blog network, has evolved into a social network of people interested in reading, writing, reporting and discussing news. In addition to news discussion
and participation, Goelji members can view profiles, communicate, and make friends with other Goelji members. To enrich our members’ experience, we display personal information our users up to some extent to other members and visitors, which allow our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. In addition, we allow members to edit/update their personal information of their own and also set permissions/preferences how other members access their profiles.

We at Goelji, recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our products and services with your privacy in mind. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy [@] Goelji.com.

This privacy statement covers all of the Goelji sites. Please read this statement carefully before using/proceeding to access Goelji Sites. Your use of Goelji Sites indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect.

Information Collection

Goelji collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authorize users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Goelji Community service. Goelji also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

From time to time, Goelji or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, or contest on Goelji.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from us. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Mailing List

Goelji Network may launch a mailing list for some or all of the Goelji Sites. In order to sign up to receive regular emails from the site’s mailing list, users must submit information including a valid email address and demographic information such as location and interests. This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess general user interest in various internal and third party products and services, and your personal and contact information will not be passed to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list will receive regular emails from the site, including new articles added to the site as well as emails from third party site sponsors. If you do not wish to receive emails from third party advertisers, do not sign up for the mailing list.

Cookies

Goelji Community use cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.

By setting a cookie on an Goelji Site, users will not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on the site’s discussion board. We store a cookie on each user’s machine that contains a username and encrypted password. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Goelji Network products or services that require you to “sign in and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. However, not all Goelji Network services require that you accept cookies.

Third Party Cookies

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, Goelji Network has no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Goelji Network only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Please beware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Blogs, Chat Rooms, Message Boards, and Classifieds or any other Public Forums, that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used to send you unsolicited communications.

Third Party Advertising

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google, Yahoo and other contextual advertisers, among other services. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not username, date of birth, or any other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site. For more information about Google and cookies, please click here.

Log Files

Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files. This include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We may use a tracking utility that uses log files to analyze user movement.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, Goelji Network may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good faith that such action is necessary to comply with the current judicial proceeding, a court order or a legal process served on any of the Goelji Sites.

Business Transitions

In the event Goelji Network goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company or sale of a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, automatically be a part of the assets transferred.

Links

The Goelji sites contain links to other sites. Please note that Goelji Network is not accountable for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of such web sites that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Goelji Network.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information which Goelji Network Collects

Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Goelji will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary in following cases:

(1) To conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Goelji, whether or not a response is required by applicable law;

(2) To enforce the Goelji Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or

(3) To protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Goelji reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information because of the sale of Goelji or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.

Notification of Changes

Whenever Goelji Network changes its privacy policy, we shall post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we find appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or notices of violations to these terms and conditions, please contact us.