Privacy Policy

10BestThings takes the private nature of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat the information we collect when you visit and use the website available at 10BestThings.com (the "Website") and is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license (thanks to Automattic). Please read this notice very carefully.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, 10BestThings 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. 10BestThings's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how 10BestThings's visitors use its Website. From time to time, 10BestThings may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its Website.

10BestThings also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. 10BestThings 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 the Website choose to interact with 10BestThings in ways that require 10BestThings to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that 10BestThings gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at 10BestThings to provide a username and email address. 10BestThings 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.

10BestThings does not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child has provided 10BestThings with personally identifiable information without the consent of his or her parent or guardian, please contact us at support@10BestThings.com. If 10BestThings becomes aware that a child under age 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information, we will delete such information.

Aggregated Statistics

10BestThings may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to the Website. For instance, 10BestThings may monitor the most popular lists on the site to help identify spam. 10BestThings may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, 10BestThings does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

10BestThings discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on 10BestThings's behalf or to provide services available at the Website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using the Website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. In addition, in some cases we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if 10BestThings or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that 10BestThings 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 acquiror of 10BestThings may continue to use your personal and non-personal information only as set forth in this policy. Otherwise, 10BestThings will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations or as described above, 10BestThings discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when 10BestThings believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of 10BestThings, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the 10BestThings Website and have supplied your email address, 10BestThings 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 10BestThings 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. 10BestThings takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

You should also be aware that if you submit information to "chat rooms", "forums", or "message boards" such information becomes public information, meaning that you lose any privacy rights you might have with regards to that information. Such disclosures may also increase your chances of receiving unwanted communications.

For users outside the United States, please note that any personally-identifiable information you enter into the Website will be transferred out of your country and into the United States. You consent to such transfer through your use of the Website. You also warrant that you have the right to transfer such information outside your country and into the United States.

Links to Third Party Sites

This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by 10BestThings. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that 10BestThings does not own or control, or employees that 10BestThings does not manage. The Website contains links to third party websites. Any information you provide to, or that is collected by, third-party sites may be subject to the privacy policies of those sites, if any. We encourage you to read such privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit. It is the sole responsibility of such third parties to adhere to any applicable restrictions on the disclosure of your personally-identifying information, and 10BestThings and its affiliates shall not be liable for wrongful use or disclosure of your personally-identifying information by any third party.

Security

All non-personally-identifying information, potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying-information described above is stored on restricted database servers.

Choice/Opt-out

If we ever send you information by e-mail concerning new products, services or information that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an e-mail address by which you may request no further notices.

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. 10BestThings uses cookies to help 10BestThings identify and track visitors, their usage of the 10BestThings Website, and their Website access preferences. 10BestThings visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the 10BestThings Website, with the drawback that certain features of 10BestThings Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, 10BestThings may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in 10BestThings's sole discretion. If we do then we'll notify you by posting the amended policy on the Website or by emailing you of the nature of the modifications along with a link to the modified document so that you can review it. In all cases, use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

Review and Access

Upon your request, we will provide you with a summary of the information we collect about you. You will have the opportunity to correct, update, modify or delete this information by sending an e-mail to support@10BestThings.com. Please note that some information may remain in our records after deletion of your account.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy or our site in general, please contact us at support@10BestThings.com.