CaribbeanCricket.com Privacy Policy

Tue, May 14, '02

When you access the CaribbeanCricket.com web site, you leave electronic traces of your passing: on our computer, on your computer, and quite possibly on a computer or computers between yours and ours. This is true of the entire Web, and most of the non-Web Internet. This document addresses what we do and don't do with the information we get.


The major evidence of your visit is in the form of an access log, a text file that records certain facts about your visit, such as what page you looked at, what kind of browser you were using, and in some cases what page you came from to get here. This is standard information provided by your browser and it is collected by nearly every web site out there. This information doesn't contain your address, your credit card number, the number of children you have or any similar personal information.


We sometimes share our access logs with other people, because they're a standard way of proving how much traffic a web site gets. We don't make them publicly available, though, and we won't share them with anyone who we believe might try to use them to track down individual people, even though that would be nearly impossible to do without a series of subpoenas and a lot of luck.


We do share our access logs with the ISPs of people who try to hack the site. We also tend to publish any information we gather about would-be hackers, and we cheerfully encourage all our friends and readers to administer the virtual ass-whooping those hacker wannabes so richly deserve.


Everyone is free to read the site to their heart's content, but we do ask that people register in order to post comments. We ask for a valid email address during the registration process; this address is used only for password retrieval purposes by forgetful types. We don't give out the addresses to anyone, and we don't send any mail to those addresses except as requested by users who forget their passwords. Lamers.

We do have a single mailing list, the CC Sporadic, which we use to send out intermittent newsletters full of news, views and updates on West Indies cricket. We never add people to this list unless they explicitly tell us to. Anyone can mail us and we'll be happy to remove your address from the mailing list; our intent is to amuse and inform, not to annoy. We don't give out the addresses on the list to anyone else.


If you send us email, we reserve the right to publish it as we see fit. We reserve the right to edit letters for brevity, clarity, grammar and/or spelling.


Our web site uses cookies, but they are not used to store personal information about users, they will not be shared with anyone else, and they will not be used to contact you. Seriously, we don't have that kind of energy or motivation.


Our advertisements are sometimes served by an outside agency. Even though you are looking at our pages, you are looking at their images, and they collect their own logs and may serve their own cookies. They have their own privacy policies which you may want to review. You may also want to sign up for whatever they're offering so we can get paid. Just a thought.


We may choose to run ads from other networks with no notice. Keep in mind that any site you go to as a result of clicking on an ad banner will have its own separate privacy policy or lack of same.


Our site does not use the security features of your browser, so we can't guarantee the security of any information transferred between your computer and ours. The Internet is not inherently a very secure place, and we strongly recommend that you do not send any sensitive information, such as your credit card or social security number, over the Internet unless you are sending it to a secure site.

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