Privacy Policy for our website

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email using our Contact form, linked from our homepage.

At our website, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by our website and how it is used.

Log Files

Like many  — perhaps most –  other Web sites, our website makes use of log files. That’s partly for security, so we can identify any problems before they occur.  The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Our website does not use cookies.

Advertising

This website is partially funded through our generous sponsors and advertisers. We use as little advertising as we can, and — when it’s necessary — only to cover our hosting and maintenance expenses. We avoid advertising programs  with any privacy risks.  In fact, we avoid advertising, period.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website.

.:: Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to our website 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 at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Ads that may appear at our website

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners may include Google Adsense, Commission Junction, Clickbank, Amazon, and other resources that offer useful products or links that seem to interest our website visitors.  (If we see a lack of interest, we discontinue the program.)

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on our website send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs.   That’s used, in part, to identify which country you’re from, and which languages your ads could appear in.

Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

Our website has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. However, we urge you to disable cookies on your computer if this is a concern for you. That’s controlled in your browser, usually in the Options tab related to privacy, security, or general settings.

Or, you can regularly use a free program such as SpyBot or AdAware by Lavasoft.  They can safely clean old tracking cookies off your computer in a matter of minutes.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

Our website’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Here are links that can help you, if you want to reconfigure your browser.  If the links aren’t current, use the search form at the respective site and look for “cookies.”

Firefox – Internet Explorer – Opera

In general, it’s good to have a privacy policy, anyway.  Here’s the easiest way to add one to your Branford Magazine website.

1. Visit SERPrank.com to auto-generate your privacy policy.  It’s easy… check the appropriate boxes, add your domain name and — presto! — you’ll have a privacy policy to copy-and-paste.

2. Copy that text and paste it into the “Visual” tab as a new Post or Page at your website.

If it’s a Page and your pages are listed somewhere on all of your webpages, your work is finished.  Otherwise, here are some options.

2a. Add the URL of your privacy policy page or post in your list of links in the sidebar… if you have a list of links in your sidebar.

2b. Or, add the URL of your privacy policy in your footer.  That’s what I’ve done for most of my websites.

First, to go your WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance > Editor.  There, click on “Footer” in the right column of that page.  Your footer.php will open in the center panel.

Add the URL of your privacy policy anywhere in the footer text.  You’ll make it a link with code that looks like this <a href=”XXX”>Privacy policy</a>, where “XXX” is your privacy policy URL.

You can see how I’ve done this in the screenshot, below.  (Click on the image to see it larger.) I add the privacy policy link immediately after the theme credits.

2c. Finally, save the footer.php file, and return to your usual work on your website.

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