I use your IP address to help diagnose problems with the server, and to administer this web site and to gather basic visitor statistics.

I do not compile information about  visitors that is for sales or ever used by or sold to anyone else. I consider such marketing strategies ineffective and a nuisance. 

I do not have the time to pursue that kind nonsense anyway. I too am victimized by the predators who have nothing better to do than to ply their acts of subterfuge against their unsuspecting visitors.

The type of web site that DOES invade your privacy is usually one that has pop-ups or ads everywhere. If you search for something and you get a site that has ads everywhere, you are likely to have your privacy invaded because they are interested in selling you something that you were not originally intending to purchase.

This is especially true of those sites that have inappropriate ads on them. For example if you search for 'red rock canyon' and you get a web site that has ads for cars, bank loans or other things that are unrelated to your search then you have good cause to think that these people or the affiliate programs that they are advertising for, are gathering information about you. That is a fact.

This has created a market for software that removes these spies from your computer. One of the best known of these is a free product called Ad-Aware here is the link to them CLICK HERE. WE ARE IN NO WAY CONNECTED WITH THIS COMPANY AND DO NOT RECEIVE ANYTHING FOR RECOMMENDING IT.

My interest is solely in showing the public the difference.

To read more about this read PCWORLD's 'Editor's Round up's'. They will have a pop-up. Oh no! BUT getting the low down on the spy ware that web sites that supposedly talk about cactus and then try to sell you a bank loan, are doing to you, it is worth the pop-up. CLICK HERE TO READ PC WORLD REVIEWS