Most web sites collect some sort of information about their visitors
in order to gather statistics about how many visitors they get each
month, what are the most and least popular pages on the web site, where
there may be problems in serving certain pages to visitors, etc. In
an effort to answer questions such as these, Science Doubts also collects
certain basic information about its visitors.
Please note, however, that Science Doubts has no interest in personally
identifying its users or its guest writers. This would be practically
quite difficult, and quite an unnecessary task to accomplish anyway.
The only thing that Science Doubts is interested in is the overall statistics
of its readership. Cumulative figures that provide a picture of visitor
traffic to our site are vital in our efforts to attract advertisers--upon
whose support the site depends--and to monitor how well our web server
is keeping up with our ever-increasing readership.
So what information does Science Doubts collect about its visitors?
Each time someone visits the site, our web server logs a number of details--if
they are available--including the IP address of the visitor's computer
and/or Internet service provider, the domain name and country of origin
of that computer, its operating system, and the type of web browser
being used.
In addition to the statistics that our own web server collects, the
third-party advertising agencies that we work with may also collect
certain information through the use of banner ads.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit
our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits
to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on
this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of
interest to you.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party
advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your
browser.
For example, Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve
ads on Science Doubts. Google's use of the DoubleClick DART cookie enables
it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to Science Doubts
and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the
DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
If you wish not to have anyone keep any records of your visit to our
site, even though it is our policy not to personally identify individual
users but only to gather overall cumulative information about our
visitors, then we suggest that you use an anonymous web browsing service
such as Anonymizer.com. Such services typically hide all information
about particular users from web sites, which log visits from the anonymizing
service instead of the users' own computers.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact the
editor of Science Doubts, at editor @ sciencedoubts.com.
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