ColorMandala.com, PrintMandala.com and WorldOfMandalas.com Privacy Policy

We take your privacy seriously. Please take a moment to read this privacy policy, which discloses the privacy practices of our ("we") websites. Specifically, the policy outlines the types of information that may be gathered when you register for or use the Services, and the ways in which that information may be used.

Information we collect

To enable you to enjoy certain features of our Services, we collect certain types of information, including personally identifiable information. For example, we collect information when you:

• Sign up to receive the printmandala.com newsletter. Your email address will be added to our MailChimp account. To unsubscribe, click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of that email newsletter.
• Register at colormandala.com or worldofmandalas.com. When you register to use specific ('closed') parts of our Services, we ask you to provide your email address and a password. On colormandala.com you may also choose to login with your Facebook account instead. In that case we store your Facebook ID and the name you set for your Facebook account (if available) in our database.
• Update your profile at worldofmandalas.com. When you update your profile we will store the information your provide to us in our database. Some of this information, such as your screenname, is treated as public information (see the section 'Public information' below).
• Create designs and colorings. All designs and colorings you make and save under your account are stored in our database. Other activities, even when not logged in, may result in cached versions of your work ending up at our server. Both these cached versions and and the versions stored under your account are not available to others, unless you explicitly shared your work. We may evaluate all stored ourselves with the purpose of improving the Service.
• Engage in public activities on worldofmandalas.com. We offer you opportunities to engage in public activities on the Services that are designed to be visible to other users and the public at large, including comments, forums, recommendations, reader reviews, translations, ratings or any other items such as mandala designs or colorings that you explicitly share or submit as public.
• Use our Services in any way:
  • Your IP address (from which a coarse Geolocation may be derived), site activity (page visited including timestamps) and selected language are stored in our server logs, which we can inspect or analyze to improve our service or solve an issue.
  • We also share this data, as well as the characteristics of your device (browser, OS, device type, screen size, etc), with Google Analytics and (part of it) with Google Adsense. See also: How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
  • Through social login and / or the like button, the fact that you used our Services (and which parts of it, and when) is shared with Facebook. Please see Facebook's Data Use Policy for more details.
  Please note that these partners may combine this information with other data you may have supplied them, or they have collected (or will collect) based on your (indirect) usage of their services.

Public information

Parts of the data you provide to us is regarded as 'public' information. This means this information (be it text, images of photos), along with your screen name / avatar, becomes public and may be used by us for online and offline promotional or commercial uses in any and all media. Information you submit is not private or confidential, nor is it protected by attorney-client, doctor-patient, or any other privilege and (regardless of restrictions we impose in our User Agreement or other policies) it might be read, collected and used by others, including through third party search engines which may index the information you post. You therefore should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there might be read, collected, or used by other users of these areas, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages, mine your data, communicate with or market to you in other ways. We are not responsible for safeguarding the personally identifiable information you choose to submit while engaging in public activities of the Services and we have no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your public activities or any of your submissions that are a result of your public activities.

Cookies

Like many websites, we use cookies, which are best understood as small files that websites and other online services use to store information on the users' own computers. And like many websites, our websites contain third party components that use cookies as well. Because of this, these third parties are technically able to relate your visit to our website(s) to visits your made to other websites (it is good to point out that we can not).

• cc_ineu - Stores whether we identified you as 'EU' citizen (based on IP address) and thus need to give explicit consent before enabling third parties to store cookies.
• cc_necessary - Stores whether you have given explicit consent for cookie storage (EU only)
• ci_session - This is a so called 'session' cookie that we use to make a 'coherent' experience of your current (and future) visit(s) to our website. The cookie itself contains a unique (random) session ID, your IP address, the 120 characters of the browser data string and the time of your last acitivity.
  
  On our server we may store extra data in relation to this session, such as whether you are logged in (and as who) and the language you selected. Without cookies you would have had to provide your username and password every time you click a link.

• Facebook like button. We use this button to give you the opportunity to tell us and your friends how much you like our website. See here for more information about third party cookies and the like button.
• Facebook login (colormandala.com only). We allow you to log in using Facebook's authentication system. If you are already logged in to Facebook, and you previously authorized our website, Facebook tells us who you are and we can log you in automatically. This is facilitated by cookies. See here for more information.
• Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to get more insight into how our websites are used. We only see aggregated or anonymized data. Google Analytics tries link all activity of each vistor together (within a session and between sessions), so we get (again, aggregated or anoynimzed) insight into how many pages the average user vists and how often people re-visit our site. This is facilitated by cookies. See here for more information.
• Google AdSense. We use Google AdSense to serve you advertisements, this enables us, for instance, to pay for our servers, maintenance, and ongoing development. These ads can be personalized to you. This is facilitated by cookies. See here for more information. Note that we do not have acces to these cookies, nor do we know what actual ad Google serves you.

Ownership changes

We may transfer your information to a third party if we or any of our affiliates are involved in a transfer or all or part of our business or assets (e.g., a sale, merger, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization) or are taking steps in anticipation of such a transaction (e.g., participating in due diligence).

Updates to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time, particularly as technology changes. You can always check this page for the latest version.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please visit us at: worldofmandalas.com