Monday, January 3, 2011

Privacy Policy


I respect your privacy and I am committed to safeguarding your privacy while you are visiting this website. The following discloses how I gather and disseminate information for this blog.

This website uses 3rd party advertising companies to serve ads when visiting this site. These third parties may collect and use information (which DOES NOT include your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that are relevant to your browsing interests. If you would like more information about this practice or wish to opt out of the cookie, you can visit Google's Advertising and Privacy page. If you wish to opt out of other advertising companies tracking and tailoring advertisements to your surfing patterns you may do so at Network Advertising Initiative.

RSS Feeds/Email Updates

If a user wishes to subscribe to my RSS Feeds or Email Updates (powered by Feedburner), I ask for contact information such as name and email address. Users may opt-out of these communications at any time. Your personal information will never be sold or given to a third party - ever.

Stats/Log Files

Like most blogging platforms I use log files, in this case Stat Counter. This stores information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring, exit and visited pages, platform used, time stamp, and demographic data. IP addresses etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information - it is simply your 'web address'.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. This blog doesn't use cookies. However, some advertisers do use cookies to collect information for marketing purposes. I can't access or control these cookies once the advertisers have set them. Google uses the Doubleclick DART cookie to serve ads across it's Adsense network and you can get further information regarding the DART cookie at Doubleclick.

Links

This blog contains links to other sites. Please be aware that I am not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. I suggest my users to be aware of this when they leave this blog and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Advertisers

I use outside advertising companies to display ads on this blog. These ads may contain cookies and are collected by the advertising companies and I do not have access to this information. I work with the following advertising companies: Google AdSense. Please check the advertisers websites for respective privacy policies.