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

Myself nor our affiliates compile information about our visitors that is for sales or ever used by or sold to anyone else. We 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 will 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. The best know 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 exposing those web sites that parade around representing one thing and then trying to sell you something that you never wanted in the first place and also whose affiliates place tracking software on YOUR COMPUTER!

This is a fact, get the Ad-Aware and you will find out that you have these 'tracking cookies' on your computer. These can be removed. They are a betrayal of your confidence however. 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 

BEWARE WEB SITES WITH A LOT OF ADS IN A PLACE WHERE SUPPOSEDLY ACADEMIC OR OTHER INFORMATION IS DISPLAYED. THESE ADS INVARIABLY LEAD TO OTHER WEB SITES THAT WILL PUT COOKIES AND TACKING SOFTWARE ON YOUR COMPUTER WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

COOKIES RELATED TO MY WEB SITE:
Any affiliate that I use can ONLY (and I check this personally) use cookies that are TEMPORARY AND END AFTER THE IMMEDIATE SESSION COMPLETES. The ONLY FIELDS THAT THEY CAN USE ARE YOUR NAME AS YOU GIVE IT TO THEM AND ANY DATES THAT YOU MAY ENTER. THE REMAINDER OF ANY INFORMATION DURING A SESSION SHALL RESIDE, TEMPORARILY ON THE SECURE SERVER OF THE AFFILIATE.

When we provide links to other web sites, clicking on them will result in a new browser opening and at that point you should be on your own. We do not put in links to sites that have pop-ups or put spyware on your computers but this can always be added later. If you notice something like that from one of our links please notify me and I will look into it because I dislike it too and I think that it is a wasteful ineffective marketing technique and a reprehensible philosophy.