Privacy Policy
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). The authors of this blog ("we/us/our") use Google Analytics to track usage patterns on our blog. Google's Terms of Service require us to have a privacy policy and to display a specific statement about Google Analytics. So here goes…
Information we collect and how we collect it
- Information we collect—we use Google Analytics to track visitor information such as broswer, screen resolution, IP address and pages viewed. We do this so that we can understand what our readers are most interested in and target our writing accordingly.
- Information you provide—this is a blog. We do not require you to provide any personal information during your use of the site. If you wish, you may choose to bookmark our site on third-party sites such as del.icio.us, leave comments on our blog, or subscribe to any feeds or email update services as may be available. If you choose to do this you may need to provide certain personal information such as your email address.
- Google Analytics—Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
- Other cookies—our blog is hosted by Blogger. We take dynamic content relating to our blog from our own accounts at the following third party sites: the blog indexing service Technorati, social networking site del.icio.us, the photo sharing site Flickr, and the mapping service Trippermap. We also host advertisements and sponsored links from Google AdSense. These third parties may use cookies—please refer to the respective privacy policies of these services. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website, but you will still be able to read our posts.
Information sharing
We will not sell, share or give away the information we collect other than as required to do so by law, or as consented by you.
However as stated in this privacy policy, we make use of third party services who have their own policies on information sharing. If you are unhappy with any of these policies you should discontinue your use of this site.
Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor.
Last updated 15 October 2006.
