Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for plaidpants.org - The privacy of our visitors
at plaidpants.org is very important to us. At plaidpants.org, we understand that the
privacy of your personal information is very important.
Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect
when you use and visit plaidpants.org, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal
information to third parties.
Log Files - As with most other websites, we collect and use the data
contained in log files.
The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address,
your ISP (internet service provider, such as Comcast, AOL, or Verizon), the browser you use to visit our
site (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer), the time that you visited our site and the pages
you visit throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons - We do use cookies to store information, such as your
personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your
visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums. We also use third party
advertisements on plaidpants.org to support our site.
Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons
when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as 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.
This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing Texas real
estate ads to someone in Texas, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such
as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies - We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through
Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a
site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google Adsense advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest
based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example,
if you have been viewing sites about visiting California, you may see California hotel advertisements
when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about basketball).
DART uses “non personally identifiable
information”. It does NOT track any personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical
address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can
opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party
cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet
Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.
This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or
accounts. Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising
program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the
advertisements, a new cookie will be added.