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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:41 PM
Tue - April 1, 3
What's your privacy policy?
Privacy
is important! So here's the deal:
I will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you without your consent, and I will not otherwise use such information except to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise my legal rights, or to ban users who abuse the site.
That's a long-winded lawyerly way of saying: Your privacy matters to me. I'll respect it.
I believe that internet users should be told who's getting information about them and how it will be treated. Several options featured on this website are provided using third party services that I do not own, control, or manage. These services may collect and use information that you provide to them consistent with their respective privacy policies, which I've linked to below.
WEB HOSTING
My web hosting service "Mac.com" is provided by Apple Computer, whose privacy policy can be found here.
COMMENT SYSTEM AND HIT COUNTER
My commenting system (Enetation) and traffic monitoring system (SiteMeter) automatically record your IP address when you visit the site or leave a comment. If you leave your email address in a comment, it is possible that an automated robot operated by an unscrupulous spammer will crawl the site and try to harvest your address. That's a major drag—so if you prefer not to leave your real email address, you don't have to. The SiteMeter privacy policy is here.
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
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If you add Bear Left to My Yahoo!, I'll receive no information from Yahoo! about your click through habits, but Yahoo! will know that you've subscribed to Bear Left, and they'll know when you click on a My Yahoo! link to visit my site. Yahoo's privacy policy is here.
If you subscribe to Bloglines, I'll know that a new reader has registered to view Bear Left, but I won't know anything else—unless you choose to make that information public through the service. The Bloglines privacy policy is here.
My recent posts feature is provided by Feedroll. Feedroll tells me in an anonymous fashion what links in the blog get clicked on. The Feedroll privacy policy is here.
GUEST MAP AND GUEST BOOK
The Guestmap feature, operated by Bravenet, may ask you to provide your email address. I don't get these email addresses, but Bravenet does, and they may use them consistent with their privacy policy.
Tag-Board.com provides the Guestbook service. In addition to requesting URLs and your email address, the Tag-Board system uses cookies. You can read their privacy policy here.
I will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you without your consent, and I will not otherwise use such information except to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise my legal rights, or to ban users who abuse the site.
That's a long-winded lawyerly way of saying: Your privacy matters to me. I'll respect it.
I believe that internet users should be told who's getting information about them and how it will be treated. Several options featured on this website are provided using third party services that I do not own, control, or manage. These services may collect and use information that you provide to them consistent with their respective privacy policies, which I've linked to below.
WEB HOSTING
My web hosting service "Mac.com" is provided by Apple Computer, whose privacy policy can be found here.
COMMENT SYSTEM AND HIT COUNTER
My commenting system (Enetation) and traffic monitoring system (SiteMeter) automatically record your IP address when you visit the site or leave a comment. If you leave your email address in a comment, it is possible that an automated robot operated by an unscrupulous spammer will crawl the site and try to harvest your address. That's a major drag—so if you prefer not to leave your real email address, you don't have to. The SiteMeter privacy policy is here.
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
Bear Left's primary XML feed (the orange button) is provided through FeedBurner, which reports to me in an anonymous, aggregated fashion how many readers have subscribed to the feed and what stories they clicked on. The FeedBurner privacy policy is here.
If you add Bear Left to My Yahoo!, I'll receive no information from Yahoo! about your click through habits, but Yahoo! will know that you've subscribed to Bear Left, and they'll know when you click on a My Yahoo! link to visit my site. Yahoo's privacy policy is here.
If you subscribe to Bloglines, I'll know that a new reader has registered to view Bear Left, but I won't know anything else—unless you choose to make that information public through the service. The Bloglines privacy policy is here.
My recent posts feature is provided by Feedroll. Feedroll tells me in an anonymous fashion what links in the blog get clicked on. The Feedroll privacy policy is here.
GUEST MAP AND GUEST BOOK
The Guestmap feature, operated by Bravenet, may ask you to provide your email address. I don't get these email addresses, but Bravenet does, and they may use them consistent with their privacy policy.
Tag-Board.com provides the Guestbook service. In addition to requesting URLs and your email address, the Tag-Board system uses cookies. You can read their privacy policy here.