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We respect your privacy. We don’t actively collect anything about you personaly whatsoever. You have to e-mail us before we know anything about you.
This site does not use ActiveX, Java, JavaScript, JScript, or any form of client-side program or script. We don’t set or collect cookies. We do nothing that can identify you, or identify your machine.
We do not try to download any form of software to your machine.
While we do not own or control the machines that host this site. This should not concern you. A host can only log the name of your browser, browser version, screen size, your IP address, which pages you have visited and when. These logs are available to me but not to any visitor to the site. This stuff shouldn’t worry you.
The browser version will probably also indicate the operating system you are using.
The host company recycles the logs evey year. Any logs we download from the host are kept for ever and a day.
From your IP address, it is usually possible to determine which part of the country you live in. Even then areas are vary large and the boundaries ill defined. Typically we are talking about a large city or half a State. This stuff shouldn’t worry you.
In the days when I used a free site, paid for by advertising, the host used to drop cookies on visitors like it was snowing. This wasn’t dangerous, but it used to irritate me. Now that I use a different host and I pay them a monthly pittance, this aggravation has disappeared.
Links
This Website may contain links to other Websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other Websites, as this privacy policy applies solely to the Website. We encourage our users to remain vigilant when they leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information.
So, as long as you are on this Website, you are free to browse in total privacy.
We comply with The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification. The introduction reads:
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Web sites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices when appropriate. Thus users need not read the privacy policies at every site they visit.
Although P3P provides a technical mechanism for ensuring that users can be informed about privacy policies before they release personal information, it does not provide a technical mechanism for making sure sites act according to their policies. Products implementing this specification MAY provide some assistance in that regard, but that is up to specific implementations and outside the scope of this specification. However, P3P is complementary to laws and self-regulatory programs that can provide enforcement mechanisms. In addition, P3P does not include mechanisms for transferring data or for securing personal data in transit or storage. P3P may be built into tools designed to facilitate data transfer. These tools should include appropriate security safeguards.
Internet Explorer 6.0 and later uses the Compact Policy Summary on this site to decide whether to allow cookies. This is a redundant exercise as we don’t use cookies.
The compact policy which corresponds to our privay policy is:
CP="NOI DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR BUS COM NAV"
The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.
| Field | Meaning |
| CP= | This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy. |
| NOI | No identifiable information is collected, so no access is possible. |
| DSP | The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism. |
| COR | Violations of this policy will be corrected. |
| CURa | The data is used for completion of the current activity. |
| ADMa | The data is used for site administration. |
| DEVa | The data is used for research and development. |
| OUR | The data is given to ourselves and our agents. |
| BUS | Our business practices specify how long the data will be kept. |
| COM | Computer information is collected. |
| NAV | Navigation and clickstream data is collected. |
Internet Explorer 6.0 and later uses the Compact Policy Summary on this site to decide whether to allow cookies. This is a redundant exercise as we don’t use cookies.