LS Blogs - Blog Directory and Search Engine for the blogging community

IP Addresses.
We log Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. IP addresses enable us to block spammers, attacks on the server, malicious submitters etc.

Email Addresses
We store the email address of registered users of the site.
This data is only used to enable users to use the site (submit blogs, request changes etc) and for communication with users.

Log Files.
We may also automatically log certain usage information about the use of the Services.
This information includes blogs submitted and changes requested and search data.
This is used for system administration, historical analysis, troubleshooting, feature analysis etc.
Search data is private, and will not be released by us to any third parties, unless required to by law enforcement agencies.

Analytics.
We may use third parties, such as Google Analytics to provide us information, reports and analysis about the usage and browsing patterns of users of the Services.
These reports contain aggregated data only, and do not identify individual users.
Please read here for more information about these third parties and the information they may be collecting.

Advertising/Cookies etc
LS Blogs may use cookies as needed to facilitate the running of the site (to remember logins, user details etc)
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website.
Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users that are based on
their visit to your sites and/or other sites across the Internet.
Users may opt out of using the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

The cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on this site,
see this page on google for more information of third party vendors google may use.

You may visit the vendors in the pages above to opt out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability).

Optional Toolbar Users of the lsblogs toolbar, which is provided by a third party service (conduit) can read the privacy policy here.

Usage
Information for users outside of the United States
If you are visiting this site from outside the United States, your data will be transferred to and stored in our server(s) in the USA.
By using our Services, you consent to our collection and use of your data as described in this privacy policy, and acknowledge that data protection laws in the U.S. may be different or less restrictive than in some other countries.

Content
Sites listed on this site will have their own privacy rules/policies which may differ from ours,
we are not responsible for the content on third party sites, and recommend you investigate the policy
of any site you are concerned about.
We also recommend keeping up to date anti-virus protection running when visiting third party sites.
Site content may also not be as indicated by this site, as the content of said sites is beyond our control and can change at any time.
Content may be unsuitable for minors, offensive, pornographic, not safe for work etc - exercise suitable caution.

This policy may be subject to change in the future, please check back from time to time.

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please email support at lsblogs dot com