A major concern on people's minds these days is privacy
on the Internet. This site is targeted specifically at
people developing Web content for both personal and
commercial purposes, so we feel an obligation to inform
you of how BigNoseBird.Com handles information gathered
at our site, and to try and encourage you to provide
a similar statement on your site(s) outlining how you
handle people's information.
BigNoseBird.Com makes extensive use of CGI scripts
and Server Side Include pages. In fact, the site uses
the very same scripts we offer for download to our readers,
and the techniques that we teach to our readers. This method
of presenting information also provides a great deal of
flexibility and power in gathering information about our
readers.
To be honest, although we love every one of our readers
dearly, we don't have any interest in what you- an individual
are doing at the site! We are more interested in what you
as a herd are doing. We want to know how you got here,
what pages you tend to visit, and what pages you don't tend
to visit. So, here's the policy:
We do not under any circumstances, sell or disclose to any third
party information gathered by any script or device.
All e-mail form submissions are logged to a file. This protects
against lost e-mails. The file is purged frequently.
Virtual Cards obviously are saved to disk. The information that
makes up the cards are automatically purged after eleven (11)
days.
The Guest Book is a public, readable web page. There
is nothing we can do to prevent spammers from harvesting names
from it.
The Birdcast site referral script does log information,
but as with the other scripts the information is frequently
purged.
BigNoseBird.Com owns it's own server. Christine and Bruce
are the only ones with access (hopefully!) to the system.
As of this writing, HTTP Cookies are not being used at this
site other than a javascript cookie tutorial and
survey script demonstration. Any other uses
will be reflected in this policy statement as needed.
Some advertisers require us to use the DART redirect service
made available by
DoubleClick.Net. Please refer to their privacy statements
for information on their service. To opt out of DoubleClick's individual tracking
service- please go here.
Attention MSIE 5.X Users:
There has been some issues raised regarding the favicon.ico
file as being a way for webmasters to detect if you have bookmarked
a site that has this file located on it. You can tell if you
have received the file if when viewing your favorites, you
see an icon other than the default HTML page icon next to the page name.
Please be assured that we in no way exploit this feature of the browser.
The icon file itself is harmless.
However, we do thank you for thinking enough of us to bookmark us!
