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We do not solicit, store, or utilize personal information in any form or manner. As defined by EU Safe Harbor and other directives and legislation regarding the safeguarding of information, we do not collect or process any sensitive information.
Social media and other third party sites
We do not solicit or manage social media sign-ons. We provide social media sharing facilities for convenience purposes only. Also provided for convenience are links to Wikipedia and Google Translate. We pay Microsoft Azure for news and weather data and aggregate RSS feeds from the RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik news services. We generate no income from any of these sites or services.
Our link to Amazon.com pays us a royalty if you use our links to directly access and purchase goods. (If you then choose a different edition of a book or something else after navigating to an Amazon web page, we do not receive anything.) Our links to Lulu.com pay us a royalty if you purchase an on-demand printed book.
We are not responsible for data solicited or otherwise collected by third parties. See also our cookie notification below.
Email newsletters
Our newsletter, "The Baltic Daily" is a generated via a service we pay for at paper.li, which manages subscriptions.
Protection of credit card information
We may periodically offer items for sale on Ebay.com, where we accept payment via PayPal only. Any such purchases are conducted securely via PayPal. We will never ask you for your credit card information directly.
Information we receive from your Internet Service Provider ("ISP")
Latvians.com receives information that is automatically generated by a user’s Internet service provider (ISP). This information may include the IP address (network address), the associated URLs, domain types, the browser type used to access our site, the country, state and telephone area code, the location of the ISP’s servers, the pages of our Site that the user views, any search terms entered on this Site, and the user’s website address and email address. This information may be collected for system administration purposes, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the site. Latvians.com does not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information. however, we reserve the right to link IP addresses and other information supplied by the ISP to personally identifiable information in order to protect the integrity of our web site against malicious conduct.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a web server places on your computer or mobile device via your browser and which contain information which can be read later by the web server which originally placed the cookie on your computer or mobile device.
We use cookies as follow:
- We use functionality cookies to remember choices you make and to assist in context-sensitive navigation. Our acknowledgement form confirms your understanding that we utillize such cookies.
- If you do not wish us to place cookies on your device, please disable them.
- We do not use user-specific advertising or tracking cookies.
Third Party Cookies Including Social Networks. If you click on a hyperlink from this site to any third party websites, for example, if you "share" content with others through social networks, those sites may send cookies to your computer or mobile device. Those sites have their own privacy policies of which you should be aware and which we do not control.
If cookies are not enabled in your browser, it will limit "thematic" browsing of our content and disable context-based menus which point to grouped content. These menus may not appear if cookies are disabled, but this should not prevent you from accessing any of our content. We do not test our site for behavior with cookies disabled. Please do not contact us to complain if it "breaks" with cookies disabled..
Transmission of information
Our servers are located in the United States.
When sending Email via a web browser session, we recommend you check your connection with your mail provider is secure via HTTPS. Do not assume this is the default for your mail provider.
Changes to this policy
This policy may change over time. Please check periodically for changes.
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