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Privacy Policy

I am concerned about privacy as a blogger myself; therefore ‘My Blog’ (“blog.hichamaged.net”) takes your privacy seriously. This document about the blog’s privacy policy describes what personal information collected and how it is used.

Table of Contents

Content of the privacy policy document is organized into the following four sections:

1. Routine Information Collection.
2. Cookies/Web Beacons and Advertisement.
3. Controlling Your Online Privacy.
4. Inquires upon Privacy.

Section 1. Routine Information Collection

Blog Comments Form

‘My Blog’ (“blog.hichamaged.net”) is a self-hosted WordPress blog over web servers that track the basic information about their visitors which includes, but is not limited to, the IP addresses, user browser details, timestamps and referring pages.

None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site but they are tracked for blog maintenance, routine administration and statistical purposes only.

On the other hand, commenting over my blog is up to you as a visitor. Nonetheless from the technical point of view, it obligatory requires filling in the “Blog Comment Form” if you want your comment to appear as much as it follows Terms of Use. This means providing your “author name (your name/alias/nickname)”, “author email (your e-mail address)” but not necessarily “author url (your website url)” into the corresponding fields of the form as it is shown in the illustration.

Whereas author name and author url are shown for the public within the comments section of any post, the author email is kept in safe and never shown up on the blog. Additionally, I neither share your information nor sell them to any other third parties nor send you any spam/advertising e-mails.

Section 2. Cookies/Web Beacons and Advertisement

‘My Blog’ (“blog.hichamaged.net”) set cookies to your browser that basically store information about the visiting session in order to better serve you as a visitor while presenting the customized content. An example for this process is the information you placed while commenting in the comment form; once you did so at the first time of visiting my blog, you do not need to re-enter them unless you cleared the your browser cache. Furthermore, cookies are required for voting the polls and rating the contents in parallel with generating statistics of my blog.

On the other hand, as of writing and updating the blog’s privacy policy, I neither advertise nor place third parties advertising system over here; however in case I did so in the near future, I shall clearly mention this and telling you what information are collected.

Anyway generally speaking, advertising partners and other third parties may also use cookies, scripts and/or web beacons to track visitors to my site in order to display advertisements and other useful information. This tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.

Section 3. Controlling Your Online Privacy

The visitor can change his (and her) favorite browser’s settings to enable/disable cookies if they have privacy concerns; however disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. Hereby, the best option is to disable/enable cookies on a per-site basis, so better consulting your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and other tracking mechanisms.

Nevertheless, if you prefer to browse anonymously, check your browser documentation for more information about the process of launching private sessions for your favorite browser which is known as:

• “Private Browsing” in Firefox/Safari browsers.
• “InPrivate Browsing” in Internet Explorer browser.
• “Incognito mode” in Chrome browser.
• “Private Window” in Opera browser.

Section 4. Inquiries upon Privacy

Concerns or questions about the blog’s privacy policy can be directed for further clarification through contacting me over the about blog page.

Privacy Policy Implementation:

• Blog’s privacy policy is effective as of: January 15, 2007
• Blog’s privacy policy was last reviewed on: August 09, 2010