Privacy Policy

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of one of our services.
  • 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.

 

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Detroit Bus Company 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. The Detroit Bus Company’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Detroit Bus Company’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Detroit Bus Company may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

The Detroit Bus Company also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on The Detroit Bus Company blogs. The Detroit Bus Company only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Detroit Bus Company’s websites choose to interact with The Detroit Bus Company in ways that require The Detroit Bus Company to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Detroit Bus Company gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The Detroit Bus Company are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case,The Detroit Bus Company collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Detroit Bus Company. The Detroit Bus Company does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

The Detroit Bus Company may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance,The Detroit Bus Company may monitor the most popular blogs on the thedetroitbus.com site. The Detroit Bus Company may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However,The Detroit Bus Company does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Detroit Bus Company discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Detroit Bus Company’s behalf or to provide services available at The Detroit Bus Company’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Detroit Bus Company’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Detroit Bus Company will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above,The Detroit Bus Company discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Detroit Bus Company believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Detroit Bus Company, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Detroit Bus Company’s website and have supplied your email address,The Detroit Bus Company may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Detroit Bus Company and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.The Detroit Bus Company takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.The Detroit Bus Company uses cookies to help The Detroit Bus Company identify and track visitors, their usage of The Detroit Bus Company website, and their website access preferences.  The Detroit Bus Company visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Detroit Bus Company’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Detroit Bus Company’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If The Detroit Bus Company, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Detroit Bus Company goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Detroit Bus Company may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Detroit Bus Company and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives or missed spam, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives and missed spam.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Detroit Bus Company may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Detroit Bus Company’s sole discretion. The Detroit Bus Company encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a thedetroitbus.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.