Privacy Policy

About this web site

This web site is the personal site of Rob Levandowski. It has been established to share information about Rob and his ideas, and to provide a forum for discussion of those ideas. It is based in the United States of America.

General commitment

We believe in the right to privacy. However, certain information about your web browsing habits are automatically divulged by your web browser as you visit any web site. As detailed below, we may collect and use this information in certain ways.

Also, you may voluntarily provide us with information via a posting to our weblog or via email. In general, by choosing to provide this information, you are reducing your expectation to privacy. Details are provided below.

Automatic collection of information

We automatically log data about your visit to our web site. This information may include:

• the IP address from which you accessed the web site
• if you clicked on a link to reach this site, the URL of the site you were viewing before you entered this site
• the path you took while viewing pages within this site
• if you found this site using a search engine, the search string you used to find this site
• the time and date at which you accessed the site
• information about the web browser and operating system you used to access the site

This data is logged for the purpose of technical administration of the site, statistical information about site usage, preserving the security of the site, and improving the experience of visiting the site.

This site may use cookies to perform certain technical functions. Automatic cookies are not used to store information for the purpose of identifying users or tracking their progress through the site.

Voluntary collection of information

Weblog

By posting a comment to our weblog, you are offered the option of specifying your name and/or email address. This is optional. By providing this information, you consent to its storage and publication for use on the website. You understand that the information will be available to all visitors without limitation, and that this may result in your email address being "harvested" by third parties to send you unsolicited commercial e-mail. If this is not acceptable, do not provide your email address when posting a comment.

Any information you post in a comment will be published. By posting a comment, you grant Robert A. Levandowski, Jr. a nonexclusive, transferable, irrevocable right to store, publish, and use the comment. You further agree to hold him blameless for any comments you may make, assuming all responsibility for the content of the comment(s).

Comments may be deleted by us at any time for any reason whatsoever.

Comments may be edited, automatically or manually, to remove objectionable or potentially actionable language. Comments so edited will be identified either by the presence of characters indicating that a word was censored, or by a label indicating the nature of the edit.

E-mail

By sending an e-mail to any address listed on this site, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the body of any particular message, you agree that the contents of the e-mail may be published on the web site in whole or in part.

If you expicitly request that your e-mail remain private, we will do our best to keep it so, with a few exceptions.

• If, in our judgement, your e-mail states that you intend to commit a crime, or harm yourself or others, we may share it with the appropriate authorities.
• If your message contains an unsolicited commercial message, it will be directed to the sending Internet service provider, any service providers related to the message, any persons or corporations identified in the message, any government agencies having jurisdiction over the message, and any other parties we may choose. It also may be published.
• We will share your message as required to comply with applicable laws.

In general, if we choose to publish an e-mail, we will remove personally identifiable information if, in our judgement, the publication of such information would jeopardize the health or employment of the sender. You may request that we publish the contents of your letter in an anonymous fashion.

Additional collection of information

We do not routinely collect additional information about visitors to our web site.

At times, in order to perform technical work on the site, or to carry out other parts of this policy, we may use public databases to cross-reference data we have collected. For instance, in order to track down the source of unsolicited commerical e-mail, we may use databases provided by domain name registrars to determine the name and location of a responsible Internet service provider.

Use of information

We may use data we collect as outlined elsewhere in this policy.

We may use data we collect to visit sites that have linked to us, or to determine what other sites are listed using the same search terms you provided.

We may use data we collect to determine if sites have linked to images on our site in a way that implies that the image is the work of another person, or to determine if text from our site has been copied by another person. In such cases, we may bring civil or criminal action if an illegal act has occurred.

We do not disclose data to other organizations, except in the limited ways noted above.

Confidentiality and security

We have implemented security policies, rules, and technical measures to safeguard the data we collect. However, because some of the data is stored under third party control (see below), we cannot guarantee the security of the data. Please consider this carefully before providing data, or continuing to visit the site. Although we will make every effort to preserve the integrity of the site, we cannot be responsible if a third party misuses, alters, or falsifies your comments on our site.

We do not provide access to the information we collect, except as provided in this policy.

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. However, it is technically impossible for us to determine the age of a visitor to our site unless they volunteer the information. Therefore, the automatically collected data is collected without regard to the age of the visitor.

If we have reason to believe that a comment posted to our web site was made by a minor, we will obscure any personally identifiable information in the post or make the post inaccessable. If you believe that your post was obscured or rendered inaccessable in error, please send email to robl-web@macwhiz.com regarding the issue. We will attempt to verify the issue. You may be required to provide legal proof of age, such as a notarized copy of a driver's license or state-issued identification card, in such cases, as may be necessary to meet our obligations under applicable Federal and state laws.

Hosting provider

This web site is hosted through LunarPages Web Hosting. They collect and store data on our behalf. As such, they have access to this data. Please also review their website for privacy policies that may affect you as a result. We are not responsible for the ways that LunarPages may use your data. Nothing in this privacy policy should be

LunarPages may change the nature of the automatically collected data without our knowledge. We will update this policy as soon as practical after we are made aware of such a change.

Changes

We may change this policy at any time. Your sole notice will be the updated privacy policy posted on our website. Please check it regularly for changes.

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