I’ve never felt the need to post a Privacy Policy on Blog About Crafts. After all, I don’t sell anything here and I don’t have a newsletter. And besides, I know I’m not going to use and or abuse the email of anyone leaving a comment – I suspect many bloggers and commenters have not really given it much thought as it just seems so against what blogging is all about.
But, we live in a litigious society and well, if I want to keep participating in a certain contextual advertising program I have little choice. So, rather than try to get the static page feature to work and otherwise make a bunch of changes to this site I thought I would create a post on this topic and put it in its own category. (I have no clue how I did it before and quite frankly don’t have the time to fuss with this – wow, has it really been since 2006 that I’ve had this blog?) This way it can be easily found by anyone who may be looking and I keep my advertiser happy. Anyway, here it is…
Privacy Policy
At Blog About Crafts we value your personal and business information.
BlogAboutCrafts.com is governed by all the laws and regulations of the United States of America and the state of North Carolina. The site is owned and maintained by Your Message Consultant and any inquiries regarding privacy should be directed to us via the contact form appearing on www.yourmessageconsultant.com or by submitting a comment on this post.
Tracking of data
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Advertising
BlogAboutCrafts.com is partially supported through the Google Adsense contextual advertising program and other advertising programs.
These advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases conditions of your browser such as the inclusion of Flash. Many Advertisers use Geo-targeting technology (using your IP address to provide a location) to allow them to provide targeted offers as well as providing adverts tailored to the content this is referred to as contextual advertising.
Cookies
Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of their ads being served on several of our websites. This is being done in an attempt by the advertisers to present ads based on your browsing history to match your personal interests. For example, Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy or http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Email Addresses
Should you submit a comment to BlogAboutCrafts.com, your email address will only be used to correspond with you. We will never sell or share your email information with a third party.