DigitalJournal.com, DigitalJournal.mobi and DigitalJournal.tv are owned and operated by Digital Journal, Inc. The following privacy policy explains more about how we protect your personal information. We do not rent, sell or share your information. By using or visiting DigitalJournal.com, you accept the terms outlined below.

In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, Digital Journal, Inc. and DigitalJournal.com do not accept membership registrations from users who are under 13 years of age. By registering with Digital Journal, Inc., you represent that you are at least 13 years old.

All information collected is intended for creating and maintaining an account on www.digitaljournal.com, therefore we only collect information relevant to enhancing the user experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with the purpose for which it has been collected or subsequently authorized by you.

Information you provide us in any way, such as information you enter during registration, gives you access to use DigitalJournal.com. This includes your name, email address, city, country and date of birth. We also receive and save certain types of information on our server logs such as your browser, IP address, cookie information, the page you requested and in the event you are rating articles, comments or images, we record each vote placed. We use this to track trends, diagnose any technical issues associated with using the Website, and manage and administer the servers and website.

DigitalJournal.com also allows other users to see: Articles, blogs and images you have submitted; articles and images on which you placed a positive vote ("upvoted"); articles, images and blogs on which you have commented; the number of times your articles have been viewed by users; and information you provide for your user profile page such as an "About " section as well as your city, country, last log-in and the date on which you joined. We also show how many times you have submitted an article, how many images you have uploaded, how many times you have commented and in some cases how much you have earned to date. DigitalJournal.com may use this information for its promotional reasons in the future, but no personal information shall be included in its use.

DigitalJournal.com allows third parties and non-registered users to access all data publicly available on DigitalJournal.com. Email addresses, password and settings will remain private.

For your privacy and security, your account information is protected by a password. Your password is encrypted using one-way encryption, meaning it cannot be decoded using a passkey or any other means. We recommend you log-off after each session to ensure your account is not accessed by an unauthorized party in places like libraries, Internet cafes or any other place where computers are shared.

DigitalJournal.com will only access your email address in the event we need to contact you personally. Your email address is not shared with anyone outside of Digital Journal, Inc., and our staff are regularly briefed on proper privacy and security practices.

Although we implement security measures on the Site and limit access to the Site by third party search engine "crawlers," please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that personal information and content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of content remain viewable.

We never rent, sell or distribute your personal information to anyone unless we believe, in good faith, that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of DigitalJournal.com, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

In the event DigitalJournal.com is buying or selling assets, user information is typically one of the business assets transferred. This is particularly important in the event DigitalJournal.com is acquired, at which point user information would be transferred. If there are any other cases in which your personal information may be shared, you will be contacted by a member of our staff at which point you can opt out of having your information shared.

As an alphanumeric identifier, we transfer cookies to your computer's hard disk through your Internet browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. DigitalJournal.com cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.

Some of our business partners, advertisers and other websites that are linked on DigitalJournal.com may use cookies on our website. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. Click on the "help" portion of your browser's toolbar to find information on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. However, we strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated otherwise you may not be able to use all of DigitalJournal.com's features and services.

In order to see what information of yours is available to other users, ensure you are logged in at DigitalJournal.com. Click on your name at the top of the page and your profile page will be displayed. This information is visible to anyone that visits the site. In order to change this information, click on My Account at the top of your page, and click the Profile tab. Here you can change your name, sex, city, country, photo, personal website and password. In the event you need to close your account, you can also perform this action here.

If you decide to visit and/or use DigitalJournal.com, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of Ontario law.