Privacy

The author of this website, takes online privacy very seriously; the author actively protects the privacy of users of this web site and people who subscribe to mailing lists.

Subscription Lists & Email Addresses—This website’s author holds names and email addresses in the strictest confidence, and will not disclose specific subscriber information under any circumstances unless required by law. Subscription lists can be accessed by only select individuals and are well protected against theft, tampering, and misuse (electronic or otherwise).

To receive a message or mailing list via email, you must give your address – without it, nothing will be sent to you. Although names aren’t required, your email program or provider may include your name with your subscription request. If so, your name with your email address may be recorded; the information helps ensure you with anyone else when sorting out subscription problems.

If you want to be notified of updates to publications on a regular basis without subscribing via email, consider using an RSS news reader and pointing it at this website’s syndicated RSS or ATOM feed. feed://www.studio832.com/rss

Patronage—If you make a donation to the author of this website, the author records information related to your contribution, including your name, email address, postal address, and contribution amount, but not your credit card number. As with the subscription lists, this information is held in the strictest confidence. The information can be accessed by only select individuals and is well protected against theft, tampering, and misuse (electronic or otherwise).

Contribution processing is handled by PayPal. To process your payment, PayPal collects information including your name, postal address, email address, and credit card number. Use of that information is governed by their privacy policy. PayPal offers both secure and insecure Web payment forms, and PayPal offers non-electronic processing if you’re uncomfortable giving your credit card number via the Web.

Web Server Usage—The author of this website keeps recorded information about how people access the web site. This information includes your IP address (or the DNS name associated with it) and what Web software you’re using. Unless your IP address or its DNS name identifies you specifically, there’s no way to use this connection information to identify a particular user. The author of this website does not use HTTP cookies in any fashion.

The author of this website may record information about queries submitted to search facilities to better understand how people use search features to gain access to this website. This information generally cannot be associated with any particular user.

Editorial Mail—Email messages sent to this website’s author are considered public statements and become the property of this website’s author. Unless noted otherwise in the message itself, this website’s author may publish such messages (including the author’s name and email address) in whole or in part on this web site and/or in publications and/or as required by law. This website’s author will generally try to contact correspondents before any such publication, but makes no guarantee to do so. This website’s author will honor any request not to publish a message, or not to publish the correspondent’s name or email address.

Discussion Lists & Archives—This website’s author may maintain email discussion lists. Although subscriber information is maintained in the strictest confidence (see above), publishing comments to discussion lists will reveal information about yourself such as your email address and (possibly) your name. This information could be collected by a third party. Additionally, users should consider any discussion list a public forum, and exercise caution in disclosing any personal information.

Web-based archives of comments and discussion lists maintained by this author will also include information disclosed by discussion participants; however, this website’s author goes to some effort to ensure information such as email addresses can’t easily be harvested by automated programs.

Translations and Mirror Sites—this website may be translated into a variety of languages, and those translations may be hosted by several mirror sites.

This website’s author can’t control the privacy policies of mirror sites, and it’s possible they differ significantly. If you are concerned, consider accessing material directly from our servers, rather than from a mirror.

Language translations are available via both email and the Web. In the cases where email or Web distribution takes place via servers, the privacy policies outlined above apply in full. However, this website’s author cannot vouch for the privacy policies of other organizations hosting translation mailing lists or translation web sites. This website’s author encourages such sites to post their own privacy policies, or indicate they fully comply with the policies outlined here.

External Links—this web site contains links to other network sites. This website’s author cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other organizations or the content of external web site administrators.