Sunday, February 28, 2010

Our Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors to arcticsid.blogspot.com is important to us.

At arcticsid.blogspot.com, we recognize that the privacy of your personal information is important. here is information on the types of personal information we recieve and collect when you use and visit arcticsid.blogspot.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your information to third parties.

Log Files:  As with most websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files contain your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, the time you visited, and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons: We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a pop up once in your visit, or the ability to log into some of your features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on arcticsid.blogspot.com. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies or web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers(such as Google, through the Google AdSense program), information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in NY for example), or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who visits cooking sites).

Double Click DART Cookies: We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's Double Click, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using Double Click advertising(including some Google AdSense advertising). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history. (For example, if you have been visiting sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when visiting a non related site such as a site concerning hockey). DART uses "non personally indentifiable information".  It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, your e mail address, your home address, your, phone numbers, bank account numbers, social security numbers, creidt card numbers, or bank account numbers. You can opt out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting:  http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx 

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies, or third party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Seurity. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log into services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permantly opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

AdSense privacy policy provided by: http://www.jensense.com/

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