Privacy Notice
The Terms and Conditions of Use and CopyRight Notice published elsewhere on this site are hereby incorporated and made a part of this Privacy Notice. Definitions of words and terms contained in those documents are applicable to this page.
You may access this WEB site and use the publicly available “ITEMs” as defined in the CopyRight Notice) on it without revealing any personal information about yourself. The only data that will be collected and stored during normal website usage is typical web server log data that is automatically collected by the server.
Examples of this type of data are:
The name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
The site that referred you to us
Any pages you visit, and the time and date of those visits, etc.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information:
You may be asked to provide Personally Identifiable Information when you access some parts of the site. The information is requested to provide you with a service. This information, such as name, mailing address, email address, type of request, etc. is collected and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the request to fulfill your needs. Information you provide when you become a registered member or post items to this site may (or may not) be available to other users of this site. The information you provide to improve the services offered by this and/or other websites owned by Us. Information you provide may also be given to outside parties for use on behalf of this web site in accordance with this privacy policy.
Electronic Mail Containing Personal Information:
Personally identifying information you provide by email will only be used for the purpose identified in the email message and to provide services to you. (If you use the Write to me link in the menu you can specify if you want the message to be kept private.)
The owner of this web site is a fanatic when it comes to issues of privacy and believes that ALL information about YOU does and should belong to YOU and SHOULD fall under the copyright laws and be treated as CopyRighted information. (Unfortunately the law doesn’t see it that way.)
Cookies
This site uses cookies. A cookie is a small line of text that is stored on your computer when you visit some websites. As you browse the Web, sites will send cookies to your browser along with the pages you access. Your browser probably has options that will let you control whether the browser accepts cookies, rejects cookies, or notifies you each time a cookie is received. If your browser is set to reject cookies, websites will not recognize you when you return. This provides you with anonymity, but difficult to offer services that are specifically for you. It is also less secure because your data must be sent to the website each time you view a page. Data is most at risk during transmission between your computer and the Web Site. Accepting cookies means your private data can stay at the Site, and the only information transmitted over the Internet is the cookie. If your browser is set to accept cookies, any cookies that are sent to your browser are stored on your computer.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me” your login will persist for two weeks. The login cookies will be removed when you logout.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Types of cookies.
A session cookie is stored only in your computer’s working memory (RAM.) When you close all of your browser’s windows, or when you shut down your computer, the session cookie disappears forever. A permanent cookie is stored on your computer’s “hard drive” until a specified date: tomorrow, next week, or 10 years from now. Permanent cookies stay on your computer until either:
a) they expire
b) they are overwritten with newer cookies, or
c) you manually remove them. (You can check your browser’s documentation for how to do this.)
How the Information Collected is Used:
This information is used to generate statistics and measure site activity. This information may be shared with third parties in order to provide these services or to analyze, store, or aggregate the information. It may also be shared with other third parties to help improve services at this and/or other websites owned by Us, or made available to the public for informational purposes. Such information will NOT contain any Personally Identifiable Information that you have not knowingly made available to the public.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the this or any other website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data inserted by your camera (EXIF GPS.) Web visitors can download and extract any location data from downloadable images on the web.
Visiting Other Sites:
This site provides links to other sites on the World Wide Web. During the course of your visit, you may follow these links to those sites. Providing such links does NOT mean that such sites are a part of this site, nor does it mean that the sites or their contents are controlled, endorsed, or recommended by Us. Third party sites which you may visit are NOT controlled by Us and We take no responsibility for the contents of such sites, any use these sites may make of information you may provide to such sites, or the use you may make of the information you receive from such sites. We recommend that you check the specific privacy statements of any site you visit before providing any Personally Identifiable Information to ANY site on the WWW. These links are provided solely for your convenience.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you are registered on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of any personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you have any questions or comments or recommendations on the subject of protecting privacy, feel free to write to me.