Privacy Policy
 

This website is an independent, non-profit website, whose mission is to provide: Joy, Inspiration, Peace, and Comfort to ALL - by providing Inspirational Messages, Poems, Stories, Quotes, Humor and Cartoons. The intent of this privacy policy statement is to publicly disclose how information on this website is processed and what procedures are in place to protect information supplied to, and/or logged by, lovers-poems.com.

Information Collection and Use
No personal information is collected on any individual, by this website, unless it is voluntarily submitted to lovers-poems.com. Like many other websites, lovers-poems.com does log "general" information pertaining to visitors, to help improve the content provided, as well as to monitor the overall operation of the site, and to help assure the integrity of the website.
 

• Links -- This Website contains links to other sites. Be advised that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This website tries to be selective about linking to other websites. However, we encourage our visitors to use their own good judgement when they choose to follow a link to another site that is NOT controlled by lovers-poems.com, and to be aware of the fact that other websites "may" collect personally identifiable information. Therefore, visitors are advised to use caution when using links NOT directly part of this website.
  
   

• Log Files -- Like most standard website servers we use log files. These 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 user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are NOT linked to any personally identifiable information.
  
   

• Submissions -- Authors are encouraged to submit their work to this website, for promotion of their work, and the enjoyment of visitors to this website. Submissions are collected through a "form" on this website, or via a special Email submission address. Comments and special instructions from the submitter will be kept private (NOT posted). Credit will always be given to submitters and authors (when known), if the submission is posted, for all submissions. Unless explicit written instructions are received to the contrary, the "credit line" for all posted submissions will include the submitters and/or authors name, email address and/or a link to the authors website. No other personal information is collected.
  
   

• Tell-A-Friend -- If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask only for the referee name and email address, and only the email address of the friend. By pressing the submit button, the referee automatically causes a one-time email to be sent from this website to the friend, recommending the friend visit the website. this website does log the date, time, and the IP address of the referee, on a separate computer, to assure no one uses the Tell-A-Friend feature to harass or spam someone. The information logged will only be given out to "law enforcement" authorities if there is evidence the Tell-A-Friend feature is being misused.

Third Party Advertising
Some of our supporters use cookies (for example, advertisers). However, this website has no access to or control over advertisers, who may use cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. The ads appearing on this Website are delivered to users by: Google AdSense and Commission Junction -- our Web advertising partners. Information about users' visit to this site, such as the number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site. For more information about Google AdSense and Commission Junction policies -- click on the appropriate link to the Third Party Ad Server Privacy Statements that follow: Google Privacy Policy, Commission Junction Privacy Policy.

Security
This Website takes every reasonable precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information to the Website, their information is protected both online and off-line.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information this website collects, if any, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email.