Privacy

Here is some information on what types of personal information is received and collected when you use and visit roamingdownunder.com. Basically, I respect people’s privacy and never give or sell personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, the web hosting software collects data and stores it in log files. This data includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit this site (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc), the date and time you visited this site and which pages you visited. Nothing identifies you personally.

I use monthly summaries of this information to see bulk trends such as total visitor numbers, which pages are most (and least) visited, and which countries the website is most commonly viewed from.

E-mail Addresses

An e-mail address is required in order to add a comment to any article on this website. This is a requirement of the Wordpress software I use to organise the content. When a comment is submitted, the notification I receive contains the e-mail address in case I want to directly contact the sender (so far I’ve never done this). I do not keep records of these e-mail address or use them for any other purpose, and they are never displayed publicly.

Cookies and Web Beacons

I don’t personally use cookies on this website - I have no reason to, and wouldn’t know how to anyway. However I do display third party advertisements (via Google) in the right sidebar. Some of the advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on this site, which will send these advertisers (and Google, through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. They generally use this for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on previous sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).