Your privacy is important to me. This information is provided to outline this site’s online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, it is available on every page of this site under the About > Privacy Policy menu item in the top navigation bar.

Collection of Personal Information

Non-Personally Identifiable Information
When visiting this site, certain non-personally identifiable pieces of information will be collected for the purposes of site analytics, e.g., how well the site is working, most frequently encountered errors, traffic statistics, etc.  Information collected includes (but not limited to), IP address, dates and times of visits, browser type, and pages visited.  None of this information is personally identifiable or can be linked directly to you.  This information (primarily collected by Google Analytics – Privacy Policy) is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site and gather broad demographic information for internal use only.

Personally Identifiable Information
If you choose, you may register on this site in order to provide comments on one or more articles.  Although this signin process does not store any of the login credentials from your provider (Yahoo, Facebook, etc.), each provider will provide the following information in order for your comments to appear properly on this site:

• Display Name
• Email Address
• Profile Picture (Facebook & Twitter Only)

In addition to the default information listed above, registered users may update additional profile information – such as Bioagrahpy, IM ids, link to your personal website and more.

1. Under no circumstances will I sell, distribute, or allow access to any registered user data.
2. In addition, this information will be used for the sole purpose of commenting on this site – never for Marketing purposes.

Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART (formally DoubleClick Inc.) cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet.

To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google advertising and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.  Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

This site does not use any other advertising mechanisms other than the Google AdSense mentioned above.

Links to third party Websites
We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at my discretion.   Shoud you have and questions regarding the this privacy policy, please Contact Me.