1.Privacy guarantee

Your anonymity is assured when visiting any of the above web sites, unless you choose to reveal your identity to me e.g. by making contact with me.

2.Internal cookies

None of my web sites in themselves directly add any "persistent" cookies to your browser (unless you log in, where applicable.) However such cookies may be added to your browser in certain circumstances when browsing my sites (see 4. below) by trusted third parties.

3.Internal statistics gathering

I do of course track visitors progress through each of my sites, logging every page request in a back-end database, as do practically all web sites. I achieve this without resorting to any persistent cookies for any of my web sites. Instead I use a "session state" cookie (which most web sites cannot function without, including my sites, and which expire 20 minutes after you leave the site) combined with an innovative technique which keeps a log of your IP address and browser "User Agent" to re-identify you on successive visits to my site without needing to place any persistent cookies in your browser. I also record your browser's "Referer" parameter when it's supplied, to determine how you ended up visiting my site, e.g. via a search engine or an advert that I'm running.

You should be aware that most browsers provide this information by default to all web sites they interact with. It does not in itself allow me to identify who you are, but it does usually permit me to find out your general location (nearest town), your operating system and your browser software. This information is useful to me for statistical purposes, and also enables me to tailor your experience while browsing my sites - for example by showing you advertisements that are relevant to the page you are viewing and the country you live in. It does not in any way threaten your personal privacy. (An analogy: when you go into a shop several times over a long period, the shopkeeper may recognise you and behave accordingly but he may never know your name, your address, where you've just come from, your date of birth or anything else about you - unless you choose to disclose that to him.)

If you fill in my contact details request form then the email address you enter will be logged in my database alongside your trace of page requests, but I do not share any email addresses or any other type of information with any 3rd party.

4.External cookies

If you click on an affiliated link or advertisement that takes you to an external web site, you will generally be given a cookie by that site in order to allow me to claim a commission should you make a purchase from them. Such cookies are purely for that purpose and I am only affiliated with highly respected companies who operate through one of a group of tracking agencies, all of whom uphold customer privacy as paramount. Should you wish to remove these cookies after visiting an affiliated web site that is of course your right, but please be aware that they are not in fact affecting your privacy and moreover that they represent an aspect of my livelihood. Such cookies may appear as 'threats' in your anti-spyware software but the term 'threat' is completely incorrect; anti-spyware software makers tend to use alarmist tactics to sell their software, and the classification of tracking cookies as a threat to your privacy is one such underhand tactic. These cookies may appear under the names 'cj.com', 'zanox.com' and 'tradedoubler.com' which are the tracking agencies I use to handle the relationship with my sponsors, and/or the names of actual sponsor's web sites where commission tracking is handled directly by them.

5.External statistics services

In addition to the statistics collected in my own database I use Google Analytics & GoStats, two highly respected 3rd party tracking services which record separately every page you visit on my site. I'm not certain whether or not they add any cookies to your browser but they shouldn't need to. I do not read any cookies lodged in your browser by other sites, nor communicate with other sites you may have visited, nor share any of my collected statistics with other sites.

6.Acceptance of this policy

Your continued use of any of my web sites indicates your acceptance of this privacy policy.

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