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Copyright Policy

February 24th, 2008
by Krishna Mohan

All aspects of this web site – design, text, graphics, applications, software, underlying source code and all other aspects – are copyrighted.

In accessing these web pages, you agree that any downloading of content is for personal, non-commercial reference only. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Krishna Mohan.

For rights clearance please contact us here.

Trade Marks are covered in the Terms and Conditions section. Please see also our Privacy Policy.

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Privacy Policy

February 24th, 2008
by Krishna Mohan

Our Commitment To Privacy

Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide
this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make
this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every
point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on this website.
On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive
materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example,
if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you
will need to submit the recipient’s address. In this circumstance, the types
of personal information collected are:
Name
Address
Phone Number
The Information We DO NOT Collect:
Credit/Debit Card Information
The Way We Use Information:
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order
only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside
parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order
only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information
with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We offer gift-cards by which you can personalize a product you order for
another person. Information you provide to us to create a gift-card is only
used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving
the gift.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses
are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

You can register with our website if you would like to receive our catalog
as well as updates on our new products and services. Information you submit
on our website will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the
registration form.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website
and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that
X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y
number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but
we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information
provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without
also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such
unrelated uses.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the
correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic,
and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect
online.
Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that
reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those
we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured
to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect
online and maintain by calling us or sending
us an email
. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information
by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps
to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies,
please contact us.

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Zenfolio – Great Image Hosting Site

March 13th, 2007
by Krishna Mohan

I have just signed up for the “unlimited” Zenfolio account ($35 after referral code) after using the (no credit card) trial version for a 14 days. I started getting interested in it after really using it to browse other peoples galleries. As my harddisk was getting filled with photographs I desperately needed a site to host my pictures. I was scouting for perfect picture host which i found in Zenfolio. This was done after checking several services link Flickr, Yahoo photos, Smumug etc. Features I like in Zenfolio to choose it as my host for photos are as follows.

Zenfolio allows users to make their breadcrumb as deep as they want, which I find to be very useful at times. almost all the other services restricts the breadcrumb from going any deeper than 3-4 times. Everything looks nice & neat on the page in Zenfolio, I like the way you hover your mouse over things to get info such as exif/download links/photo & gallery links/etc instead of having all that info strewn all over the page, the slideshow rocks pretty hard, and my god is this site fast! Most of the time it goes just as fast as I can click, which has a lot to do with the way they prefetch the images. But, I cant tell you how good that feels when you are browsing a bunch of photos in a gallery & it goes that fast & doesnt make you scroll each time you view a new photo or page in a gallery. Its almost like viewing photos with a piece of software on your computer’s hard drive! Yes, its that fast!!

Zenfolio has pre-made templates (not just themes), which again can be a good thing or a bad thing. Depends on what you want to do with your page & how savvy you are with coding, but I think its safe to say most people aren’t good with html/css nor do they want to be. I personally like Zenfolio’s better, as they look a bit more elegant to me without being overly cheesy.

In Zenfolio, literally all options, edits, captions, titles, keywords, gallery/group creation, access controls, deleting, descriptions, uploading, re-arranging, etc is done in ONE centralized location for your entire content. And I do mean everything! This sounds like a bad idea at first because you would think thats too much info on one page, but its not like that at all & is actually very simple. You have a list of all your galleries/groups on the left & you just click on which ever one you want to make edits to, upload to (or whatever), then all the content of that folder appears inside the main area in the center with all the options on the right. You can go deeper in your breadcrumb from there & make changes to any part of it, including the homepage. Then, you can view it as a guest would to see if its to your liking. They also allow descriptions to any part of your breadcrumb, not just galleries. I really like that a lot because sometimes I want to write little descriptions to a group that may contain a bunch of galleries within it that have their own separate descriptions & so on.

There are several other features I like in Zenfolio which finally made me to get an account there. I love the Image prefetching of Zenfolio. Their dynamic image resizing is fantastic. I love how Zenfolio does this. I often don’t have my browser window maximized, and Zenfolio just “fits,” any time, all the time. Keyboard shortcuts. I’ve already become addicted to “arrowing through” a gallery in Zenfolio. Combined with image prefetching, this makes for a very nice user experience. Zenfolio uses AJAX to switch images for the user, but whatever they do, it’s awesome. From the user’s perspective, not having the browser jump around and force scrolling each time the image changes is wonderful.

Still there are several areas in Zenfolio I have not explored. I have not tested their printing service or their Shopping Cart. I am trying to figure out how to point photos.drkrishi.com to drkrishi.zenfolio.com. I have not yet done bulk downloading of photos from Zenfolio as my current internet speed does not permit such a large download.

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