Your privacy is critically important to us. At Serving in Unsilence we have a few fundamental principles:

• We will never disclose personally identifying information about you to third parties unless required to do so by court-order.
• We will make every reasonable effort to prevent your personally identifying information from being transmitted to your commanders.
• We will make every reasonable effort to limit the access of harassing visitors to your blog.
• You should be able to choose how public your blog is.
• Your career is important and vital to National Security.

Below is our Privacy Policy which incorporates these goals:

Website Visitors

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

Serving in Unsilence also collects potentially personally-identifying information. Serving in Unsilence 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 Serving in Unsilence’s websites choose to interact with Serving in Unsilence in ways that require Serving in Unsilence to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Serving in Unsilence gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at unsilence.com to provide a username and email address. In each case, Serving in Unsilence collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Serving in Unsilence. Serving in Unsilence 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.

What is Collected

The only information that is actively collected by Serving in Unsilence consists of the following:

• Email addresses
• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
• Usernames

Any other information found on a member’s blog is not requested nor required by Serving in Unsilence and was disclosed by the member on his or her own. This information is not retained by Serving in Unsilence if the member chooses to remove it.

Use of Personally-Identifying Information

Email addresses are used to activate blogs, send passwords, and announcements regarding the website to the user. Usernames are used by the members of Serving in Unsilence to log into the site, post comments, and maintain a blog. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are collected in order to forbid abusive users from accessing the services provided by Serving in Unsilence.

Aggregated Statistics

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

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Serving in Unsilence recognizes the sensitivity of being a LGBT Member of the United States Armed Forces and posting to a blog hosted on Unsilence.com while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States. Serving in Unsilence will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Serving in Unsilence discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law. If you are a registered user of an Unsilence website and have supplied your email address, Serving in Unsilence 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 Serving in Unsilence and our products. 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. Serving in Unsilence takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Personal .mil Email Addresses

Due to the sensitivity of your career as it relates to 10 U.S.C. 654 (”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”), we do not allow any .mil email addresses to be used for the purpose of registering a blog on unsilence.com, as some features of the Website may automatically disclose said email addresses and place your career at risk.

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. Serving in Unsilence uses cookies to help Serving in Unsilence identify and track visitors, their usage of the Unsilence website, and their website access preferences. Serving in Unsilence visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Serving in Unsilence’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Serving in Unsilence websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Serving in Unsilence may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Serving in Unsilence’s sole discretion. Serving in Unsilence encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have an unsilence.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.