Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement for Tom Collins’ World Wide Web Log

Tom Collins’ World Wide Web Log has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.  The following statement discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site, Tom Collins’ World Wide Web Log.

Information Automatically Logged

This Web site uses your IP address to gather broad, unspecific demographic information of a non-personal nature.  This is information, for example, such as the country that your IP address domain is from.  This type of information is obtained automatically with the server statistics for this Web site, which are provided by its hosting company, and is analyzed in conjunction with other site statistics.  This Web site uses such information primarily to determine the number of visitors per month and to assess the average length and average extent of their visits.

Advertisers

This Web site uses outside advertising companies to display advertisements on the site.  These advertisements may contain Internet data objects commonly known as “cookies.”  Cookies collect information on Web site users.  No one associated with the creation of content, the administration or the maintenance of this Web site has access to information collected by its cookies, nor uses that information for any purpose.  The cookies received by your computer in association with advertisements appearing on this Web site may may be collected by our advertising partners, however.

Cookie Management

In accordance with accepted Internet standards and practices, this Web site’s Privacy Policy offers its users information about user options for cookie management.  In general, your Web browser should allow you to configure it to manage cookies; if not, you should upgrade your Web browser to the latest version.  The site http://www.aboutcookies.org which is created and maintained by the London based International law firm of Pinset Masons, offers useful information concerning cookies and cookie management.  For further information on cookie management, users should search for that term using the an Internet search engine, such as Google.  Your privacy is important to us, please ensure that your Web browser is properly configured to reflect your privacy needs with respect to cookies.

DoubleClick DART Cookies

The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on this Web site.  When you visit this Web site and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped (i.e., stored) on your browser.  The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help better serve and manage ads on this Web site.

In summary, with respect to DoubleClick DART cookies:

* Google, as a third party vendor, uses these cookies to serve ads on this Web site.

* Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this Web site and/or other sites on the Internet.

* You may, at any time, opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ and following the instructions provided there.

Third-Party Cookies

The cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on this Web site.  A list of links to Web sites maintained by these third parties is available at https://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94149 and you may visit those Web sites to opt out of their cookies, provided that the vendor or ad network which constitutes the third party offers that capability.  You can also opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies at one location at the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Personal Information

This Web site does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted.  Since this Web site does not collect any personal information, no one connected with the production of content, with the administration, or with maintenance of this Web site is capable of sharing or disclosing any personal information about you with any third parties; and, consequently, they do not share or disclose any personal information about anyone who visits this Web site with any third parties, nor can or do they use any personal information about users of this Web site for any purpose whatsoever.

This Web site uses third-party advertising companies to present and display advertisements to you when you visit it.  These companies may use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide you with other advertisements about goods and services they determine may be of interest to you.  Under no circumstances does that information contain any data such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, financial accounts or personal identifiers, but it may contain data which allows identification of the computers you use, to which those advertisements about goods and services may subsequently be sent.  If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about how to avoid having information about your visits to this and/or other Web sites being used in this manner, visit http://www.networkadvertising.org where you can find information on how to opt out, or http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ for further helpful personal privacy protection information provided by Google.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites.  Tom Collins’ World Wide Web Log is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those Web sites.

Security

This site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under the control of the information technology professionals who maintain it.  Tom Collins’ World Wide Web Log is hosted on professionally administered servers in a secure facility. The content creator, system administrators and Webmaster also have adequate physical security on the computers which they use to update and maintain this site to protect the data stored on those machines, and no computer upon which content for this site is created resides on any any public data network.

Changes to this Privacy Policy Statement

The content of this Privacy Policy Statement may be changed at the discretion of the Webmaster at any time in order to reflect updates to privacy policy issues.

EU GDPR

As of 25 May 2018, residents of the European Union (EU) are protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you are a resident of the EU, the GDPR provides you with extensive rights and protections regarding your privacy when you use the Internet.

We strongly recommend that you Visit the official GDPR site and become familiar with these.

Visitors to Tom Collins’ World Wide Web Log should be aware that when they click on a link presented here, or click on one of the advertisements, they are visiting another Web site. Those other Web sites which collect visitors’ personal data or track visitors’ browsing activity are liable for GDPR compliance, including protection of your data in accordance with GDPR standards and protocols.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this Web site, or your dealings with it, you are invited to contact the Webmaster at the following e-mail address:

Webmaster@tomcollinsblog.com.