Privacy Policy

Your privacy, as a visitor of raevenfea.com, is important to me. This privacy policy outlines the types of personal information received and collected by raevenfea.com and how it is used. If you want to learn more or have any questions about this policy, get in touch at rae@raevenfea.com.

Your E-mail Address

Your e-mail address is required to post comments, however I promise not to share or sell this information. It’s so that I can verify that you’re human or get in touch to answer a question. I’m the only one that sees it. To reiterate: I will absolutely not give away, share, or sell your e-mail address. I’d rather have your trust than their money. More on comments ⇓

Analytics and Tracking

Like many other websites, raevenfea.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Additionally, raevenfea.com makes use of the Google Analytics Javascript-enabled tracking to provide additional information about visitors, content viewed and trends.

Code from Tynt.com is used to track copy events on this website. Information about what is copied is saved, and a citation is appended to any copied content. You can opt out of Tynt tracking on this and all other sites at Tynt.com

Cookies

raevenfea.com is built on the WordPress blog system. This system uses cookies to remember very simple information about commenters. Learn more at wordpress.org.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on raevenfea.com.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to www.rachaelarnold.com and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Advertising

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include:

Google Adsense
Amazon.com
Barnes and Noble
CommissionJunction.com

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to track the advertisements and links that appear on raevenfea.com. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

raevenfea.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. raevenfea.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and I cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or Web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific Web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective Web sites.

Persons and companies that wish to partner with raevenfea.com can learn more on the advertising page.

How do we use private info?

As covered in the Analytics and Tracking section, I use log files and Google Analytics tracking to see trends, keywords, and traffic patterns for the site. Mostly, I use this to see how to improve my posts to suit what people are searching for.

As for advertising, well, it is helpful to cover some of the costs of hosting this site.

I absolutely do not sell any information I gather, either from tracking or comment posting.

More on Comments

A great blog includes great discussion in the comments by visitors. I aspire to have a great blog some day. Unfortunately, spam is pervasive, so I do a few things to keep as much of it off the site as possible. One part of that is moderating all comments (although I do whitelist). I like discussion. I love constructive criticism. I despise people who go about disparaging anyone with an alternate view, revile people who talk and act like they have the mentality of a 14 year old boy that talks of nothing but his little boy bits, and am bored by persons who have absolutely nothing to add to the conversation. If your comment could be construed as one of those three types, I reserve the right to remove it at whim. Frankly, I reserve the right to remove any comment on a whim, but that would just be so despotic, and I prefer to delete only with good reason.

As mentioned above, your e-mail address will not be shared with anyone. At present, URLs submitted in the provided field will be displayed as live links, however I do reserve the right to add a nofollow to said link if I find myself unwilling to donate link juice to the page. I doubt that will ever happen, but a warning is in order because I am sure someone would complain if it happened. So, you are forewarned, don’t come whining to me later, please. It’s not a good way to get your way. Any link inside of an approved comment will be nofollowed by default, a default that will only be overridden if I am feeling especially enamored of the linked content.

This privacy policy was last updated 4 Feb. 2011.