What are Cookies
Cookies are text files with small pieces of data — like a username and password — stored in your browser and are used to identify your computer. Specific cookies known as HTTP cookies are used to identify specific users and improve your web browsing experience. A cookie typically contains two bits of data: a unique ID for each user, and a site name. Cookies enable websites to retrieve this information when you revisit them so that they can remember you and your preferences and tailor page content for you based on this information.
You can block, allow and remove Cookies in your browser settings.
Advertising Cookies
As an Affiliate Marketer (read Disclaimer), I include advertising on my blog, which implies third-party cookies from ad-networks might be set. When you click on an advertisement and leave my site, a vendor will set their cookies.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability) by visiting www.aboutads.info.
For more information visit "How Google uses cookies"
Server Log Files - so called 'Essential' Cookies
Any site usually collects information your browser transfers on visit:* Browser type / version* Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)
Interactive Content Policy and Privacy
Interactive content contains Third-Party content. I cannot accept any liability for any third-party content, nor do I generally share the opinion expressed there.
Comments
Comments are very much appreciated, and I will always respect your privacy. When you comment, you provide certain private data, like your email address, which is seen only by me, and not used to contact you unless you ask me to; your name and website are publicly visible. Anonymous comments are possible too.
At the moment I do not moderate comments and hope I do not collect spam nor links to inappropriate websites.
Any abusive comments, contentless comments which only serve to link a site, and other trolling spam will be deleted when I see it.
Share- and Feed-adoption-Buttons
Only when you click on a button, the service you share to sets Cookies.
I have removed Facebook-Like-Buttons, which are supposed to set cookies when you open a site.
RSS Feeds
You are welcome to adopt feeds of my blogs (to your email - feature recently removed by Google) or feed reader (you can import feeds in email programs like 'Thunderbird' ), as well as to show them on your blog under "blogs I follow" -- but not on a site that consits solely of RSS feeds from other bloggers (except the official directories). Such action would infringe copyright. -- And it would not be useful anyway, because such sites contain only duplicate content.
I don't think I will be able to see who follows me. If you would like me to follow you back, please contact me! Easiest way would be in a comment that features your blog and tells me you follow. (Though I am forced by Blogger to provide a contact email, I might overlook emails from my blogs.)
