Visitor Tracking
As a site visitor, your visits to the website are logged with
a third party tracking tool. This tool provides us with pertinent
information - not about you, but about the numbers you represent
- it counts the pages you visit, it counts the times someone
from your IP (it could be you, it could be someone else on your
ISP) visit the site, it counts the amount of kilobytes you're
responsible for downloading from the site. It also looks to
see what link you clicked to arrive at this site. (known as
'referrer'). One thing it doesn't do is personally identify
you for our records - you are more or less "anonymous".
Cookies
We use "cookies" to keep track of who has rated
what. A cookie is just a very small text file that is put
on your computer. It is harmless and does not in any way damage
your computer or the programs on it. The purpose of the cookie
is to prevent someone from abusing the system and rating a
coffee place multiple times. Many sites use "cookies"
to target specific ads your way, registered or not. We don't
do that. I won't say we won't do that in the future, but if
we can avoid that practice in any way, we will.
Forums
If you have signed up as a member of our forums, we store
some information about you on our site. This information includes
your email address, your username, and password. This information
is never given or sold to any third party and is only used
for the purpose of running the forums.
Advertisiing
You will find advertising on the CoffeePlaces site. This advertising
is there for the purpose of defraying the costs associated
with running the site. These costs include hosting fees, bandwidth
fees, site maintenance, and other related costs. To a certain
extent, we do not control the content of the ads you see and
are not responsible if you are offended or injured in any
way. Please contact the advertiser in question to sort out
the problem..
Disclosure of Information
In some cases, the governments and legal entities (court of
law, police subpoena, etc) can compel the disclosure of information
about you, and of course CoffeePlaces will need to comply.
However, irrespective of those situations, CoffeePlaces can
unilaterally turn over information about you to the government
if it believes such disclosure to be appropriate, in which
case you authorize it to do so. You also consent to CoffeePlaces
disclosing information about you to actual or potential parties
to a lawsuit that Coffeeplaces is or may become involved in
(a) if it is required to do so, (b) if it reasonably believes
that such disclosures will potentially mitigate its liability,
or (c) to enforce its rights.
Limits on CoffeePlaces' Abilities
CoffeePlaces.com is not perfect and thus may inadvertently
make uses or disclosures of your information in ways not contemplated
by, or in direct contravention of, this Statement. For example,
if the CMS software has a temporary problem, or is infected
by an as of yet unknown virus or trojan, your personal information
could be displayed on the site even though you've configured
your preferences otherwise. No software is hackproof. In addition,
although highly unlikely, it is possible for Internet transmissions
containing your personal information to be intercepted by
others. It is impossible for CoffeePlaces to ensure the privacy
and security of all transmissions made to and from the site
while in transit.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please
contact us at Contact Us.
CoffeePlaces Management
June, 2005
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