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Salesstar.com and its owners respect your privacy. As such, this privacy
statement spells out the kind of information we collect on this site,
what we do with it, and how it may impact you.
- We collect and
analyze web server information in our logs.
Those logs include date accessed, files accessed, time accessed, a referral
URL if any, your browser and machine type, and the IP number the file
was accessed from. That IP number may resolve back to your individual
machine, or may be behind a "proxy" server. Either way, we
are not able to match an IP number to an individual person's name. We
can use it to indicate the corporation, educational institution, or
Internet Service Provider that provides your network connectivity.
We utilize that information to track search requests, user frequency,
popularity of files and/or subjects, and source of originating links
to our site. This information is commonly collected and analyzed by
web servers.
This is a sample of two such log lines:
10.1.2.3
- - [02/Jul/2003:00:19:00 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 38246 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
(Shows a computer from 10.1.2.3,
which accessed the main page (/) at 19 minutes after midnight, PDT,
on July 2, 2003, with no referrer, running Microsoft Internet Explorer
5.5 on Windows 2000. The main page is 38242 bytes in size. "200"
refers to a successful request.)
10.1.2.3 - - [02/Jul/2003:00:19:01 -0700] "GET /mailme.gif HTTP/1.0"
200 1079 "http://www.salesstar.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
(Shows
the same computer, one second later, accessing the "mailme.gif"
graphic, with www.salesstar.com as the referring page.)
- We collect e-mail
addresses on our "mail this URL to a friend" forms.
We utililize that information to deliver the URL to the target address.
That information also turns up in our log files, along with other server
information, as indicated above. We may also look at that information
in order to see what types of users are using the form, and what topics
are most e-mailed.
Aside from the e-mail ordered, no e-mail is ever sent to or from the
address provided. We do not sell, rent, or transfer your e-mail address
to any other party. We will not share that information with anyone.
Entering such information will not put you on a mailing list, nor will
we e-mail offers to your e-mail address.
Should you not wish to enter the appropriate information, you can e-mail
the page or URL to your friend
using a standard e-mail program. We will not, of course, gain any identifying
information in such a case.
- If you purchase
an item through our web links to affiliate merchants, we receive a portion
of your sale, but never receive any identifying information about you.
The affiliate links help keep Salesstar.com operating. Links to Amazon.com
or other merchants may recognize you as one of their customers. That
information may turn up on graphics that are generated by that site,
that appear as part of our pages. Salesstar.com is never a party to
that information, which is encoded by the affiliate site onto your computer,
and generated by the remote site as part of a graphic requested by your
web browser.
Aside from these
instances, no other identifiable information is collected or involved.
All information collected on this site is protected by password. Our log
files are not public information, and
are not available on the Web. Our main log files are zeroed out every
two weeks.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Daryl Gibson
at drgibson@drgibson.com
Salesstar.com reserves the right to alter this privacy policy at any time,
with or without prior notice.
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