Ology Newswire, Inc., will collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you as you use our sites. We may use this data to better understand our users. We can also publish this data, but the data will be about a large group of users, not individuals. We may also collect certain personal information about you and your use of the Service (as defined herein) which may be published and used in the aggregate as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
We will also ask you to provide personal information, but you'll always be able to opt out. If you give us personal information, we won't do anything evil with it.
We can also use cookies, but you can choose not to store these.
That's the basic idea, but you must read through the entire Privacy Policy below and agree with all the details before you use any of our sites.
This document is based upon the Automattic Privacy Policy and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License 2.5. Basically, this means you can use it verbatim or edited, but you must release new versions under the same license and you have to credit Automattic somewhere (like this!). Automattic is not connected with and does not sponsor or endorse Ology or its use of the work.
Ology makes available services including our Newsletter Manager ( https://news.ology.com (the "Site")), our blog, our API, our browser extensions, and any other software, sites, and services offered by Ology in connection to any of those (taken together, the "Service"). It is Ology's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Site.
If you have question about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@ology.com
Like most website operators, Ology 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. Ology's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Ology's visitors use its website. From time to time, Ology may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Ology also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Ology 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. We may also collect and use IP addresses to block users who violated our Terms of Service.
Certain visitors to Ology's websites choose to interact with Ology in ways that require Ology to gather personally-identifying information, such as names and email addresses. The amount and type of information that Ology gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Ology collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Ology. Ology 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 Service-related activities.
Additionally, some interactions, such as posting a comment, may ask for optional personal information. For instance, when posting a comment, may provide a website that will be displayed along with a user's name when the comment is displayed. Supplying such personal information is completely optional and is only displayed for the benefit and the convenience of the user.
Ology may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to and users of the Service. For instance, Ology may monitor the most popular parts of the Ology Site, or the most commonly blocked email properties. Ology may display this information in the aggregate publicly or provide it to others.
In addition, Ology may, from time to time, collect certain personal information from you, your use of the Services, and/or your blocking or canned response preferences (your "Data"). Ology may publish and display your Data in the aggregate to the public through our Site or on our blog, e.g. by publishing a report on average email rates on the Site. However, all Data is only used and published in the aggregate which means that any published Data will not identify you, your website, your company or your users, or link you to the published information in any way. If you wish to opt out of the publication of your Data, please contact us as support@ology.com.
Ology does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Ology discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees and contractors that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Ology's behalf or to provide services available at Ology's Site websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees and contractors may be located outside of your home country; by using the Service, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Ology 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, Ology discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Ology believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Ology, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of the Service and have supplied your email address, Ology 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 Ology and our products. We primarily use our website and blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to anonymize and publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Ology takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
In order to properly elevate the visibility of email newsletters specified by you, Ology will access the configuration of your Gmail account and make changes that you specify while you are using the Newsletter Manager service at
Upon being given access to an email account for newsletter management purposes, Ology will access the following information from your email account, according to the restrictions and guidelines set by the email provider:
Access to your email account and this data is used as described in previous sections of this Privacy Policy, as well as the following:
No email content or metadata (such as From, To, Subject, Body, or Header fields) are stored on our servers.
The Ology Newsletter Manager service does not extract your Google user data or Google user data of your contacts or those you communicate with using your Gmail account.
To verify that your Google user data is not stored or to request deletion of your account and all associated data (including any Google user data), please contact us at: support@ology.com
No Google user data is stored on our servers.
Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy, if you provide the Service access to the following types of your Google data, the Service's use of that data will be subject to these additional restrictions:
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 Service each time the visitor returns. Ology uses cookies to help Ology identify and track visitors, their usage of Ology Service, and their Service access preferences. Ology visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Ology's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Ology's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If Ology, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Ology goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Ology may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ology uses third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run the Service. You understand that although you retain full rights to your data, it may be stored on third party storage and transmitted through third party networks.
It is extremely difficult to guarantee the complete security of data transmitted through the Internet, via mobile devices, or through the physical transfer of information. While we will take precautions to limit security risks, we can not fully eliminate all security risks associated with personal information. We do not guarantee or warrant the security of any data or information transmitted to us by you, and you do so at your own risk.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Ology may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Ology's sole discretion. Ology encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.