goAdvocate Brief Privacy Notice

March 28, 2007

Personal information

goAdvocate asks for personal information when you register, including your real name, email address and a password.  This is used to confirm your account and protect it from unauthorized access.  Registrants using fake names or emails will be deleted.  Your email or password will never be shared with a third party.

Your profile page may contain personal information, such as your name, a photo, your location, etc.  Most information may be kept blank at the member’s discretion.

goAdvocate servers automatically record information, such as the frequency and size of data transfers.  None of this personally identifies you.  Information displayed or clicked in the goAdvocate interface (including User Interface elements, settings, and other information) is also recorded.

Uses

goAdvocate stores and maintains user account information and copies of user weblog posts and comments, including drafts, in order to provide service.

Your choices

Members can change their goAdvocate account settings in the Account Settings area.  Members can edit their profile information at Edit Profile, and specify what information is private and public, within some limits.  Some  identifying information (such as member name) remains public.  Members can edit, save drafts and remove posts at any time, as described in goAdvocate help.  Additionally, members can delete their entire profile.

If you delete your profile, all posts will be removed from public view.  However, residual copies of your profile information and other information associated with your account may remain on back-up media.  

More information

goAdvocate adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework, see the U.S. Safe Harbor web site.

Further information about goAdvocate is available in goAdvocate help.