Visitors to YourSadStory have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy. We use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Any or all visits to YourSadStory are subject to the Conditions of Use.

We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website, except where otherwise stated, unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically:

1. The Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of the host from which you access the Internet (i.e. 123.456.789.012), whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP),

2. The browser type and version you are using to access the site,

3. The operating system and version you are running on your machine,

4. The date and time you access our site,the pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page),and, the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.

We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors (such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors) and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff for YourSadStory, except as required for site security purposes, to ensure that YourSadStory remain available to all users, and when required by law enforcement investigation.

We use the information only as a source of anonymous statistical information, and no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.