Privacy Policy

Agile Development is founded on the principles of helping people to discover new information by enabling them to share what they find interesting with one another. Agile Development knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the Agile Development website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. 

This Privacy Policy covers Agile Development treatment of personal information that Agile Development gathers when you are on the Agile Development website and when you use Agile Development services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Agile Development does not own or control, or to individuals that Agile Development does not employ or manage.

Information Collected by Agile Development

We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website, which is to enable users to discover and share information with one another. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our Agile Development users: 

1.Information You Provide to Us: 

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.

Registration: In order for you to use Agile Development services, such as submitting new articles to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require select personal information (including your full name and e-mail address). 

User Profile: To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as a bio and your picture. As indicated below, in the section titled "Sharing Your Information", you can control how your information is displayed and used.

2.Automatic Information: 

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Agile Development and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, Agile Development cookie information, and the page you requested. Agile Development uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.

Agile Development may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User Profile pages.

Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Agile Development will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.

E-mail Communications

Agile Development is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. Agile Development may send out e-mails with Agile Development related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions. You may also receive notification e-mails from Agile Development, which inform you of new article published by Contributor that you are following. 

Cookies

• Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Agile Development cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.

• The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies.

• Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

Sharing Your Information

Because Agile Development enables people to discover and share information with one another, information about the people who use Agile Development is an integral part of the Agile Development experience. Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.  

• User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other Agile Development users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on Agile Development where we allow you to tell other Agile Development users about yourself and your interests. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile by visiting the User Profile section.

• Social sharing of data: Agile Development allows other users to browse stories that you have submitted or commented on. In addition, Agile Development may choose to post this data on other site features.

• Syndication: Agile Development allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the Agile Development website.

Keeping Information Secure

• Your Agile Development account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.

• Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices. 

Ways to Control Display and Use of Your Information

• As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting new links.

• By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add or delete personal information on our website. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.

• You may request deletion of your Agile Development account by e-mailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Children Under 18 Years of Age

You must be 18 years and older to register to use the Agile Development website. As a result, Agile Development does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that Agile Development has collected information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Agile Development may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Agile Development website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed. 

Effective Date of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of February 1, 2012 and last updated September August 1, 2012