Privacy Policy

Your privacy is essential to me, and I know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared. I strongly believe in upholding the highest standards of internet privacy, as well as protecting your personal information. When you visit this website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

Here are a few fundamental principles that I follow:

• I don’t ask you for personal information unless I truly need it.
• I don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, protect our rights, or improve your visiting experience.
• The information I collect is used to improve the quality of our service and your experience while visiting, and is not shared or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes.
• I don’t store personal information on our servers except for when it is required for the on-going operation and security of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most websites, I collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. My purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how you, the visitor, uses this website, and then hopefully I can make necessary adjustments to improve your experience.

I also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on a blog if it exists, exclusively for security purposes. Commenter IP addresses are disclosed only to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors choose to interact in ways that require this website to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that is gathered depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, visitors who comment on a blog are required to provide a username and email address. This website collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with me. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the understanding that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

This website may collect statistics about visitor behavior and preferences. For instance, the most frequently visited pages may be monitored, visitor data and behaviors may be analyzed, or this website may use spam screening by the Akismet service or some other spam screener. The intention is to more fully understand our visitors’ behaviors and to provide safe and enjoyable experiences every time you visit our website.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. This website uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, and their usage and access preferences.

Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using this website, with the drawback that certain features of this website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. Cookies are used solely to improve your user experience and never to acquire personal information to sell to others for commercial gain.