I value privacy as much as the next person. Therefore, I wish to make it clear that I won’t mess with you, sell your identity or soul to a mailing list, or anything like that.

When you visit this site, your computer sends some information to our server. This includes your IP address, information about your browser (such as the user-agent identification string and the URL of the page containing the link you clicked on to get here) and, naturally, the page you are trying to view. We collect and save some of this information to monitor site performance and obtain information on how and where the site is being used. This information is not disclosed to any third parties (well, technically, it’s stored on our virtual server in Rackspace’s hosting facilities, but I don’t think you have to worry about them poking around and reading our logs and their privacy policies are pretty stringent).

We do not store this information in a way that can be easily used to figure out who you are. In particular, stored IP addresses are hashed so that we can count unique visitors but cannot look up who a particular visitor in our logs is or where they are located.

If you want to browse more anonymously, you can change your User-Agent string (the User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox does this) and use an anonymizing proxy system such as Tor.

We may use cookies in some portions of the site; these cookies are used only for stateful interactions, preferences, and user account sessions, not for user tracking. Unauthenticated content is fully accessible to all users regardless of whether they have JavaScript, cookies, or other relevant technologies enabled.

Additional information is collected if you post a comment. All information is completely voluntary and will not be sold or otherwise disclosed except for its publication with the comment.

We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of sites we link to. Some links, particularly affiliate links, may contain referral codes; this should not tell the linked-to site any information other than that you visited them from us, information they could obtain in most cases by looking at request headers.