There is no such thing as privacy anymore. Please don’t post anything here that you consider “private”. If you do find some private info of your own or others, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. That’s the limit of this policy.
Preface: Honestly, this is a completely new site with no content and it doesn’t accept any visitor data yet. So the text below is (1) what I really think, but (2) not acceptable for a production site. So I’ll leave this here for now, and link to it later, but I really need to create a whole little compliance environment here. *sigh*
If you agree with that, please click Accept. It kinda doesn’t matter because the button isn’t hooked up to anything and your acceptance isn’t saved. The next time you visit there’s no way to know if you clicked that button or not. But I’m providing a button for those who feel better when they click buttons.
Want more? OK …
Any privacy policy you find says in flowery prose: “You have no privacy here, we reserve the right to share any information you give us with anyone we want.”
And you always click Accept, and they always share your data.
You have published pictures that contain geo-location data. Then you published notes about where you are going and when you’re not going to be home. You advertise the names of everyone in your family, including pets, and publish dates of birthdays, anniversaries, and other events. You may even use some of this information in the one password you use on all sites.
You give your mobile number to local restaurants, and they send it to marketing companies. You give your email address to anyone who offers you a discount. And you do all of this without asking about a privacy policy.
You have given away your rights to privacy too many times and it’s too late to claim ingnorance or indignance.
If any of that describes you, why do you have a sudden interest in a privacy policy?
This is just a blog, not a site for doctors, lawyers, kids, or shopping. Read, enjoy. This site doesn’t ask you for any information about yourself, except for name and email if you create an account for notifications, polls, etc. Please don’t provide any other information about yourself – and neither of us will have to worry about your privacy or the rapidly changing rights in every community in the world.
Forms that ask for you to type something
There is a contact form here, and polls and surveys that ask you to enter text. But your identity isn’t linked to those answers. So you’ll never see a quiz that says something like “enter your phone number”, and later “hey, look at all of these phone numbers that end in the letter 3. Please don’t give “my husband cheats on me when he goes to work as CEO of FooCorp” as your reason for learning how to code. Please don’t put in a comment “email me at duh@duh.duh for my résumé”. I won’t ask for data like that, don’t want it, and won’t edit it out of your notes. So please don’t put it in a form anywhere on this site.
Notifications
You may provide your email address to receive a response or notifications. That’s all you’ll ever get – a response to the current inquiry or notifications about whatever it is you asked about. I have a page somewhere around here so that you can remove yourself from notifications. That’s all automated – there is no one processing lists. The lists don’t get used in any other way. It’s really simple.
Trackers and Ads
I hate trackers and don’t intentionally put a tracker on this site for the purpose. However, if I put ads or affiliate links on this site (not yet but it might happen), they will follow the exact same pattern as every other site, and try to sell you something related to whatever you’re reading here. If you don’t know how this works, please get an education on the topic. If you do know how it works, then I shouldn’t need to say any more. 😉
Comment / Spam Blocking
This site uses Akismet and possibly other tools to help eliminate trash comments. Comment text, nothing else, is sent to Akismet for evaluation. If it looks spammy, the comment is held for moderation. If not, it’s posted as-is. Again, if you don’t put anything personal in these comments, then nothing personal will be sent for processing – but if you do put something personal in a comment, it is transmitted to this third party – so, don’t do that.
My Commitment
I promise I will never intentionally share any information you provide here with anyone who has motivation to use that info for any purpose. That’s all I can reasonably do.
However! The internet is … inter-networked. When stuff gets posted to this site there are often automated notifications to other sites that something interesting happened here. This also may happen with ads that notify some company that you are reading a page about some topic. Every site does this whether they tell you or not – it’s how the internet works.
Your email address should never appear anywhere. If it does so by default, I apologize in advance, I try really hard to not allow that to happen. All I can offer is an apology and a dedicated effort to keep it from happening again – that’s all anyone really can offer.
I will not take action if you put private info into a form where the results will be published. (See above)
I will absolutely take action if we find someone has put private info of someone else on this site. That’s a big no-no.
That is the limit to remedies that are available here.
As before, this button doesn’t do anything but you’re welcome to click it if it makes you feel good. Your legal jurisdiction may not allow a site owner to say “you accept these terms if you continue to use this site”, but mine does. So…
You accept these terms if you continue to use this site