Privacy Policy

This policy document explains what information we collect and retain about visitors to the site, and how we treat that information.

Cookies

This site uses cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer or other access device) to track visitor actions on the site and to manage login data for sections of the site which require user registration prior to participation.

You can choose not to allow this website to set or update cookies on your computer by altering the settings of your browser. You should be aware, however, that doing so may reduce the functionality of the site.

You can find out more about cookies, and how to control them on your browser, at www.AboutCookies.org.

You can opt out of advertising cookies at Your Online Choices

What information is collected

We collect the following information:

  • Information automatically supplied by your ISP and your computer, including your Internet address (IP address), your browser software and version, your operating system and version, the pages and files you have viewed, the dates and times of your visits and the referring source from which you reached this website.
  • Information that you provide to us when you register for any restricted area of the site or submit user comments to any interactive part of the site. This includes your name, email address and website address as well as any other information voluntarily provided by you.

What the information is used for

Information supplied automatically is aggregated and used for statistical purposes (such as generating lists of the most popular pages). It is not used to identify any individual or their activity on the site.

Information supplied by you is used solely for the purposes for which it was supplied, such as identifying you as the author of user-contributed content or enabling access to restricted areas of the site.

We protect the privacy of your supplied data and do not make it available to third parties except as part of user-contributed content which you have chosen to publish. In particular, email addresses supplied as part of user-contributed content are never published on the site.

We do not add your email address to any mailing list without your explicit content. However, we reserve the right to use your supplied contact details (including your email address) if necessary to communicate with you regarding your user-contributed content or your registration for restricted areas of the site.

Third-Party Services

This site carries adverts provided by third parties. These adverts may also use cookies to track your interaction with the adverts and advertisers and to manage which adverts are shown to you.

This site uses third-party services to provide certain statistical functions. These services may use cookies to track your interaction with the site. Information collected by such services may be retained by the service provider.

In particular, this site uses Google Analytics and Google Adsense.