It is Friends of Patty Kim’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

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

Friends of Patty Kim also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Friends of Patty Kim does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Friends of Patty Kim’s websites choose to interact with Friends of Patty Kim in ways that require Friends of Patty Kim to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Friends of Patty Kim gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who join our mailing list at pattykim.com to provide their name and email address. In each case, Friends of Patty Kim collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Friends of Patty Kim. Friends of Patty Kim 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

Friends of Patty Kim may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Friends of Patty Kim may monitor the most popular parts of the pattykim.com site. Friends of Patty Kim may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Friends of Patty Kim does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Friends of Patty Kim 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 Friends of Patty Kim’s behalf or to provide services available at Friends of Patty Kim’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 Friends of Patty Kim’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Friends of Patty Kim 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, Friends of Patty Kim discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Friends of Patty Kim believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Friends of Patty Kim, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Friends of Patty Kim website and have supplied your email address, Friends of Patty Kim 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 Friends of Patty Kim. Friends of Patty Kim 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. Friends of Patty Kim uses cookies to help Friends of Patty Kim identify and track visitors, their usage of Friends of Patty Kim website, and their website access preferences. Friends of Patty Kim visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Friends of Patty Kim’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Friends of Patty Kim’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Friends of Patty Kim may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Friends of Patty Kim’s sole discretion. Friends of Patty Kim encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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