Privacy Policy of Strix.org.uk

The new Google AdSense Terms and Conditions behoove me to have a privacy policy, and it's about time. This document may change as the site and my situation does, but its spirit will remain the same. Laws change and I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around, I'm never in one place I roam from town to town, And when I find myself a-fallin' for some girl I hop right into that car of mine and ride around the world, Yeah I'm the wanderer yeah the wanderer, I roam around around around... so sometimes the law I'm subject to will require changes to this policy.

For the purposes of this document: 'I' means Strix, the owner and operator of this site. 'You' means you, the person reading this. 'The Software' means the collection of code powering strix.org.uk and its associated domains. 'The Site' means strix.org.uk and www.strix.org.uk. 'Douchebag' means Joel Osteen, Myanmar Premier General Than Shwe and any corporate legal or PR representative. This policy applies to human users of The Site I reasonably believe to be acting in good faith. Spammers, spam, associtated robots, Douchebags and any person engaging in illegal activites of which I disapprove are not protected by this policy. For example: a citizen of the Maldives quoting from the Bible is breaking the law of his home territory, but will still be protected by Strix.org.uk wherever possible.

Please note that strix.org.uk uses Google AdSense, and Google collects and stores a great deal of information about your travels on the web so as to better target ads to you and for this Site.

Protection of Personal Information

Strix.org.uk does not collect much private information, save for IP addresses in the webserver log and email addresses associated with blog comments. This information is not released to third parties or the public except in cases of spamming or when legal/personal threats are made. If this information is requested by actors to whom I do not have an obligation under South African law, I will usually destroy such information before a legally binding request can be made. In cases where third parties contact me to request the email address of Site users, I will forward that request to the user to allow them the discretion of responding. Search terms, when dissociated from IP, referrer and session data are not considered personal information and may be mined, aggregated and published.

Freedoms of Speech

I fully support your right to free speech. You can - or at the very least: should be able to - say or not say whatever you please on your own website. On my Site, however, I expect comments and other user-submitted content to conform to a minimum standard of civility and good taste. This does not mean that you cannot criticize myself, the positions of others, or espouse views radically different to my own. It does mean that bigotry (homophobia, sexism, racisim, etc) trolling (divisive comments that serve no useful purpose), personal attacks and offensive stupidity (eg, haulocaust denial, advocating violence) will be removed. I very rarely delete comments or other user-submitted content because I am fortunate to have a pretty excellent crowd here and it is seldom necessary.

If you have any further, specific questions, please ask them in the comments field below this post.

Created 2008-03-30 09:10:42 by strix and filed under introspection