Bottom Line Up Front

Your privacy is very important to me.  I respect your personal information and will not sell your information to anyone else.  Should you choose to subscribe to any of my services and later change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe at any time.

And, now the details…

At PixelsandSawdust.com, I recognize that privacy of your personal information is important.  Here is information on what types of personal information I receive and collect when you use and visit PixelsandSawdust.com, and how I safeguard your information.  I never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, I collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL), the browser you used to visit my site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout my site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

I do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit my site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of my features, such as forums.

I also use third party advertisements on PixelsandSawdust.com to support my site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on my site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit my site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off my cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with my site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program.  Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

RSS & Email Subscriptions

PixelsandSawdust.com records information about how our RSS feeds are accessed, but personal or identifying information is NOT collected from or about my RSS subscribers.  Information about the subscribers websites feed is held in confidence and will not be released or disclosed unless required by law.  Aggregated information stripped of personally identifiable information may be disclosed.

Comments

PixelsandSawdust.com reserves the right to edit or remove comments on this site at my sole discretion.  When provided, URLs and other information will be published with the comments.  The commenter’s email address is required for submission but is NOT disclosed unless the commenter leaves their email in the main comment area in addition to the designated email text box.  PixelsandSawdust.com reserves the right to delete any comments that it deems not beneficial to the readership (please see my Comment Policy).  This includes but is not limited to comments containing profanity, self promotion, harassment, threats, or spam of any sort.

External Links

PixelsandSawdust.com contains links to other external websites not owned by the owner of this site.  I cannot control how your personal information is used on these other websites.  Be sure to consult their privacy policies.

Contact

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

This privacy policy was updated March, 2010.

I reserve the right to make changes to this policy. You are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.