Privacy policy

At Five Finger Coding, your privacy is important to us. The following is our Privacy Policy, which is effective on August 1st, 2009. It is intended to describe how we treat the personal information that we may collect and receive from our visitors. Please note that by visiting and using www.fivefingercoding.com you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information we collect and potential uses

Log files

Every computer connected to the Internet is provided with a domain name (e.g. aol.com) and an IP address (e.g. 192.389.17.255). When a visitor requests a page from the Five Finger Coding website, the web server automatically identifies and logs the request that is made to the server. This information reveals nothing personal about you. Some of the information that may be gathered and logged includes:

There is nothing special about this information, and the collection of this data is the standardized practice of nearly all web servers on the internet.

We use this information to ensure that your computer is properly equipped to experience the Five Finger Coding website. We also analyze this information for visitation patterns, referring URLs, and search terms to find ways we can improve the experience of our website and attract more visitors.

Cookies

The Five Finger Coding website uses cookies in order to provide visitors with a personalized experience. Cookies allow us to track user trends and provide certain functionality such as allowing visitors to share articles by email.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you choose not to accept cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

User communications

When you send email or other communication to Five Finger Coding, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services.

Information sharing

Generally, the information supplied to Five Finger Coding will only be used in the context for which it was provided. However, Five Finger Coding may share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Five Finger Coding in the following limited circumstances:

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to: (1) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (2) enforce applicable Terms of Use/Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (3) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (4) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Five Finger Coding, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Five Finger Coding uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure, however, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use the Five Finger Coding website and/or Five Finger Coding services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup disks), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Any requests should be sent by email using the “Get In Touch” link.

Changes to this policy

From time to time, we may use visitor/customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes. We will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information may be used, you should check back at our website periodically.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time using the “Get In Touch” link.