It’s always important to know what personal details are stored for use on any site and this site is no different. The following policies apply to pages under the curnow.org domain.
The curnow.org website does not need to collect nor store your personal data in any way (any exceptions, such as when you comment, are noted below). You can use this site without sharing any personal information.
In common with most sites, the web server may collect information from your browser, including your IP addresses and the page you request which will be logged and used to identify the most popular pages. In addition to information stored by the web-servers of my hosting provider, Dreamhost, that delivers this site to you, I use Google Analytics to help me understand visitors to the site. It is anonymous and we do not know who you are. You will notice I use MaxMind to identify which country you are coming from. This looks at your IP address to determine where you may be located. They do not know who you are: it’s just a bit of fun.
If you contact us with your email address it will not be sold or released to anybody else unless the law requires it.
You are able to comment on selected entries within the main site. When you comment then the information you enter (names, email address and website URL) will be stored in a cookie on your computer to allow you to easily to comment on other pages. It is a short-term cookie, called a session cookie, and is deleted at the end of your session. If you wish to stop our server recognising you when you comment simply delete your cookie.
Your email address is required if you wish to comment. This is to help authenticate real users. It will never be shared with anybody else (I hate spam too) and you’re not going to get any emails from me except for any automated ones I set up to confirm your comment.
For security and to prevent spamming, we collect your IP address from which you made the comment and this is recorded alongside the comment. That data is stored in on my servers which are located in the US. In addition, if you comment, I may receive an email which will include some of the details about your comment to allow me to moderate comments on the site. My email provider is also located in the US. Therefore, these basic details will be sent outside of the European Union.
Please remember that any details you leave in a comment will be displayed. Do not enter anything you do not want to be published on the site. Please think before posting any personal details. I will remove all posts containing obvious real-world/mailing addresses and I reserve the right to remove any posts.
Depending on the amount of comments I am getting, I sometimes – but not always – don’t publish them until they have been reviewed.
A ‘cookie’ is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows curnow.org to recognise when you have commented. We only stored a short-term cookie, called a session cookie, in case you want to comment on multiple articles. Additionally, there is a link to share pages with Facebook or Twitter at the end of some pages. Facebook may recognise you on the site. Facebook have a privacy policy which you should also read.
We do not use cookies for anything else. For more information on cookies please see aboutcookies.org and remember that you may delete the curnow.org cookie at any time. It will not effect your interaction with any other site. If you do not accept cookies, you can still use the site.
We do not need this information ever, so you do not need to enter it anywhere on this site.
curnow.org is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.
There is no reason to send us any personal details other than as specified above. In addition other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through curnow.org have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions.
Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if something on the site requires correction or removal. This policy was last revised in May 2011.
