InnovaLUG is dedicated to encouraging builders to get involved in the online LEGO community. In doing so, some minimal amount information may be gathered from users. We are adamant about keeping your information safe. Any information you give us (directly or indirectly) will never be sold or shared with anyone or with any company or with any non LUG member for any reason unless it is required of us by law.
We collect information only if you choose to provide us with your information. When you comment on the site, use the site for any purpose, or when you contact any of InnovaLUG’s members in any way, that information is presumed to be given to us with your consent. You are able to opt-out of providing information to us if you desire. If you email any innovalug.com email address, you
We want InnovaLUG to be a safe site for all to experience, however we do not intend for children under 13 years old to use the site without their parents’ permission and all of InnovaLUG’s services are not directed to children under 13 years old. We have no way of knowing if a user is under the age of 13. Parents, after reasonable proof has been given to us that they are the child’s parents, may ask us to do what is reasonably possible to remove all information regarding to their child from our site and other services. Aside from Disqus comments, the information we collect is given to us by the use of third-party cookies that you allow on your browser, and thus can only be removed if you opt out of those 3rd party services. Links to more information about and how to opt out of these 3rd party services are included in this policy.
InnovaLUG assumes that by using the site, you have given us your informed content to send cookies to your browser so that you can fully experience all of the site’s features.
If you would like to understand what cookies are and what they are used for on the internet, visit All About Cookies. The site also includes instructions for how to disable cookies in your browser.
If in the future we allow anyone to make an account on this site, cookies will be required for account functionality. Even so, no personally identifiable information will ever be stored on cookies sent to you by InnovaLUG because that is dangerous.
InnovaLUG uses Google Analytics cookies purely for analytical purposes to improve this website, its content, its relevancy, its timelines, and for improving InnovaLUG in general. Google Analytics provides anonymous information to us, so no personally identifiable information is being collected by InnovaLUG. Google Analytics does not store any personal information about users either. To learn more about how Google Analytics or to opt out of those cookies, please visit the following pages: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview/privacy
When you visit certain pages on the website, you are given the option to share the website’s content on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or Pinterest. These sites create cookies so that the social bookmarking/sharing is possible. Like Google Analytics, the information we may collect from these sites is anonymous and is not personally identifiable. Should you visit a page on our site where these cookies are sent out, if they are not blocked by your settings and browser, we assume that we have your informed consent to use the data given to us to better improve our services. When you click on any of these social share buttons, data about where you’re pinning from, the website url, and other non personally-identifiable information is sent to the site you are sharing so that it can be shared as intended. Please visit the following pages to learn more about how those sites use cookies and how to opt out of using them: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/?hl=en#infochoices https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
If you contact any LUG member via an innovalug.com email, we can see your email address, but your email will only be used to respond to your inqueries or suggestions or perhaps continue one with a conversation. On rare occasions we may use your email address to contact you when we have reason to believe that your online privacy or safety is at risk. We will never share or sell your email with anyone outside of InnovaLUG. Currently we do not have any kind of email subscription, so all emails sent from InnovaLUG are non-commercial.
InnovaLUG uses Disqus to power its commenting system. Using Disqus to comment on the site grants us the right to use the information provided to us by Disqus according to the terms of this policy. We may edit, modify, delete, and distribute your comments for the purpose of improving InnovaLUG’s services and keeping the site safe for everyone. Again, we will never share or sell the information we receive from you whether directly or indirectly.
When you comment on the site, Disqus shares your email address with us so that we can provide the Disqus commenting service on our site. We only use the information provided to us by Disqus for comment moderation purposes and for improving InnovaLUG’s website and other services.
Disqus may also create a cookie so that you can stay logged in to Disqus even if going from page to page on our site or other sites. To learn more about how Disqus uses its cookies and how you can opt out of them, please visit the following page: https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466259-privacy-policy
Any information we collect we use to improve our services and will never be shared or sold with anyone. All of the information we collect is subject to the privacy policies of their origins. For example, if you comment on this site using Disqus, you agree with Disqus’s privacy policy in that Disqus can then grant rights to access certain information you provided to Disqus to InnovaLUG. If InnovaLUG decides to allow users to make accounts on this site, then this policy will be updated to reflect our means of protecting data we store. InnovaLUG cannot ensure or warrant the security any information you send to InnovaLUG through any means, whether directly or indirectly (as with Disqus). It is your responsibility to protect your information and to withhold information you do not want to be publicly accessible.
We may modify or update this policy from time to time, and if that happens, we will post the changes on this page. The date at the bottom of this policy indicates when the policy was in effect. If you use InnovaLUG after the date at the bottom of this page, you agree to the revised policy.
Effective since February 2nd, 2016