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title=>LiveJournal.com Privacy Policy
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<?p Information you share with us is used for LiveJournal's business purposes.
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LiveJournal.com is not in the business of selling information about you.
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This notice tells you what information we collect, steps we take to protect
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and secure it, how we use and share the information, and finally, how you
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can contact us with questions or concerns. p?>
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<?h1 Information We Gather h1?>
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<ul>
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<li> LiveJournal.com collects personal information when you register
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with us, use LiveJournal.com products or services or post content on a
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LiveJournal.com Blog site as a guest with authoring rights. </li>
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<li> LiveJournal.com may also collect personal information when you enter
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into promotions or sweepstakes. </li>
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<li> LiveJournal.com may combine information about you that we have with
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information we obtain from business partners or others. </li>
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<li> LiveJournal.com may also collect information about your transactions
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with us and with some of our business partners. This information might
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include information necessary to process payments due to us from you such
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as your credit card number. </li>
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<li> LiveJournal.com automatically receives and records information on our
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server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the
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pages you request. </li>
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<li> LiveJournal.com uses information for the following general
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purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and
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authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous
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reporting. </li>
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</ul>
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<?h2 IP Address h2?>
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<ul>
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<li>LiveJournal.com may occasionally obtain IP addresses from users
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depending upon how you access our web site. IP addresses, browser and
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session information may be used for various purposes, including to:</li>
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<ul>
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<li> Diagnose and prevent service or technology problems reported by our
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users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by
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a specific web company or ISP. </li>
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<li> Estimate the total number of users visiting LiveJournal.com from
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specific geographical regions. </li>
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<li> Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content,
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services or resources that we offer. </li>
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<li> Monitor and prevent fraud and abuse. </li>
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</ul>
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<li> LiveJournal.com may display your IP address to the owners or
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maintainers of certain LiveJournal journals when you post to those journals
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and the owner or maintainer has enabled functionality on the site for this
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purpose. </li>
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</ul>
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<?h2 Cookies h2?>
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<ul>
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<li>A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous
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unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers
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and stored on your computer's hard drive.</li>
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<li>If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use LiveJournal.com
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products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able
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to take full advantage of all offerings.</li>
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<li>You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all
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cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.</li>
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<li>LiveJournal.com uses its own cookies for a number of purposes,
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including to:</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Require you to re-enter your LiveJournal.com password after a certain
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period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally
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accessing your account contents.</li>
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<li>Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using
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LiveJournal.com's services.</li>
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<li>Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.</li>
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<li>Conduct research to improve LiveJournal.com's content and
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services.</li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<?h2 Information Relating to Children h2?>
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<ul>
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<li>The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") requires that we
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inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose
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personal information from children under 13 years of age. LiveJournal.com
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is not directed at children under 13 years of age but, we recognize that
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with proper adult supervision some parents might permit their children to
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visit LiveJournal.com and use our Service. COPPA requires that we obtain
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the consent of parents and guardians in order for children under 13 years
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of age to use certain features of LiveJournal.com.</li>
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<li>When your child attempts to register and/or provide personal
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information to LiveJournal.com, we require a parent or legal guardian
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to:</li>
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<ol>
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<li>complete the registration;</li>
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<li>review our privacy policy and to submit a valid credit card number to
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verify that the child's parent or guardian knows about and authorizes our
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information practices related to children protected by COPPA; and</li>
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<li>verify through the use of an email confirmation and second
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authorization that the parent or guardian consents to the Terms of Service
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and this privacy policy.</li>
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</ol>
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<li>Once parental notice and consent has been verified, the information we
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collect will be treated the same as information collected from any other
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user of LiveJournal.com. Without verified parental notice and consent,
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we will not knowingly collect personal information of children under 13
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years of age, and if we learn that we have inadvertently collected such
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information, we will promptly delete it.</li>
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</ul>
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<?h2 How Parents can Access their Children's Personal Information h2?>
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<?p In compliance with COPPA, parents and legal guardians may request from
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us to review, delete or stop the collection of the personally identifiable
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information of their child. You may do so in one of two ways. p?>
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<?p If you know the user name and password, follow the instructions below
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regarding <em>Changing your Preferences and Personal Information</em>, or
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you may contact us by letter, phone or email using the address information
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provided at the bottom of this page. p?>
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<?p If you request that no further information about your child be
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collected or used, we will be required to terminate your child's ability to
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use LiveJournal.com's products and services that require a user to "sign
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in." p?>
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<?h1 Information Use, Sharing and Disclosure h1?>
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<ul>
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<li>LiveJournal.com does not share personal information we learn about
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you from your use of the Service or this web site with others except as
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described in this policy. We do not share your information with unrelated
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third parties for their direct marketing purposes.</li>
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<li>When you provide personal information through using the Service you
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are however sharing your personal information with LiveJournal.com,
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organizations that may hold a majority interest in LiveJournal.com, their
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divisions or subsidiaries and, LiveJournal.com and any of its divisions or
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subsidiaries. The use of your personal information by these organizations
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is subject to this policy.</li>
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<li>LiveJournal.com may use or share your personal information where it
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is necessary for us to complete a transaction, to operate or improve
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LiveJournal.com and related products and services, to do something that you
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have asked us to do, or tell you of products and services that we think may
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be of interest.</li>
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<li>Where you are contacted with an offer or service based on information
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you have shared with LiveJournal.com, we will do our best to provide you
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with an opportunity to opt-out of receiving such further communications at
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the time you are contacted. </li>
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<li>When you post a message, your LiveJournal.com ID or alias that you are
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posting under may be visible to other users. </li>
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<li>When you post a message on LiveJournal.com Blog Sites, you have the
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ability to post a message which may include personally identifiable
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information about yourself. </li>
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<li>If you post personal information online that is accessible to the
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public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
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</li>
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<li>LiveJournal.com does or may share personally identifiable information
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about you under the following circumstances:</li>
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<ul>
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<li>In the course of operating our business it may be necessary or
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appropriate for us to provide access to your personal information to
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others such as our service providers, contractors and select vendors so
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that we can operate the Service and our business. Where practical, we
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seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this
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policy and that limit others' use or disclosure of the information you have
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shared.</li>
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<li>We may share your personal information to respond to subpoenas, court
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orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights or,
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defend against legal claims and if in our judgment in such circumstances
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disclosure is required or appropriate.</li>
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<li>We may share your personal information if we believe it is necessary in
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order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
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suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
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safety of any person, violations of LiveJournal.com's terms of use, or as
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otherwise required by law.</li>
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<li>As we continue to develop our business, we might also buy or sell all
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or part of our business. In such transactions, personally identifiable
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information you have shared with us is generally one of the business
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assets that will be transferred. The transferred personally identifiable
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information will remain subject to the promises made in this privacy policy
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or subsequent policies to which you have consented.</li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<?p If there is ever a change to how LiveJournal.com uses or intends to use
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personal information, we will post that change to this policy and, if the
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new policy is materially less restrictive than this policy, we will seek
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your consent. p?>
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<?h1 Confidentiality and Security h1?>
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<?p No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
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secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
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information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we
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receive your transmission, we make efforts to ensure security on our
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systems. p?>
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<ul>
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<li>We use physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect
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personal information about you.</li>
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<li>Your LiveJournal.com Account Information is password-protected.</li>
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<li>In certain areas, LiveJournal.com uses industry-standard SSL-encryption
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to protect data transmissions. However, please note that this is not a
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guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or
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destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software.</li>
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</ul>
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<?p If LiveJournal.com learns of a security systems breach we may attempt
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to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective
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steps. By using this web site or providing personal information to us
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you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding
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security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of
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this site. LiveJournal.com may post a notice on our web site if a
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security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a web browser
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enabling you to view the LiveJournal.com.com web site. LiveJournal.com
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may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to
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us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have
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a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To
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receive free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your
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consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us at <a
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href="mailto:privacy@livejournal.com">privacy@livejournal.com</a>. p?>
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<?h1 Changing your Preferences and Personal Information h1?>
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<ul>
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<li>You can edit your LiveJournal.com Account Information at any time.
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Most personal information you may provide is entirely optional. For
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example, to the extent that parents are considering whether to permit their
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children to use the Service, we do not condition a child's participation
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based upon their provision of any more personal information than is
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necessary to operate the Service.</li>
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<li>You can delete your LiveJournal.com account by visiting our Account
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Deletion page; however, please note that some personal information,
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primarily your contact information, may remain in LiveJournal.com's records
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to the extent necessary to protect LiveJournal's legal interests or
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document compliance with regulatory requirements.</li>
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</ul>
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<?h1 <a name='contact'></a>Contacting LiveJournal h1?>
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<?p If you have a privacy concern regarding LiveJournal.com, or this
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policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the
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use of this web site, you should then write to us by email to <a
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href="mailto:privacy@livejournal.com">privacy@livejournal.com</a>.
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Alternatively, we can be reached by telephone at 415-344-0056 or our postal
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mail address: p?>
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<?_code return LJ::Pay::postal_address_html('Attention: Privacy Officer'); _code?>
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</blockquote>
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<?p In the event that we are still unable to resolve your concerns
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LiveJournal.com is committed to cooperating to achieve a proper resolution
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of your privacy concerns. p?>
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<?p If you object to any sharing of your personal information that may
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be permitted under this policy, you may do so by writing us at the above
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address. We will take reasonable steps to accommodate your requests as
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they relate to our advertising practices. In some instances, honoring your
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requests may interfere with or preclude your ability to use the Service or
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may require us to terminate our relationship with you. p?>
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<?p <em>Effective Date: January 5th, 2005</em> p?>
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