disparate.info, the disparate blogs network, and ldmh.us, in the course of providing this blogs and related services, collect certain information for purposes of traffic analysis. All data collection is done by Google Analytics and the OpenX Ad Server. The information collected does not include personal, sensitive information such as your name or physical address, but these services do collect information such as your general geographic location, internet service provider, web browser, and pages visited. Additionally, as Google Custom Search powers the search engine on disparate.info, information regarding searches is captured by Google Analytics. This information is used solely for the purpose of analyzing the stories and topics that are of most interest to my readers, as well as identifying the most popular ways for readers to access my content. Neither this site nor any affiliate of the disparate blogs network will sell or otherwise make publicly-available this information.
Furthermore, when visitors register for or post comments on this site, certain personal information is collected. This information, including name and email address, is used solely for the purpose of providing the services found at http://disparate.info (and the mobile site, http://disparate.mobi) and will not be sold or otherwise made publicly-available. Every effort is made to ensure the security and privacy of this information, but neither disparate.info and its author(s), the disparate blogs network and its affiliates, nor ldmh.us and its users may be held liable should the information collected be disclosed or otherwise publicized, unless such disclosure is willful. To this end, every effort is made to address security concerns, including the installation of software patches and upgrades, as soon as such issues are made known to me. If you have any concerns regarding the security of disparate.info or its affiliates and service providers, please contact me.
Links
For reasons discussed more-fully here, outbound links from this site are in the form of short URLs. Users concerned with the potential security implications of clicking on one of these shortened URLs should rest assured that the links do not direct visitors to malicious pages or phishing sites. As this site is regularly crawled by all major search engines, outbound links are frequently evaluated for security risks. Neither I nor the search engines provide any warranty or representation that our efforts to identify potentially-malicious sites will guarantee a safe surfing experience, but by regularly reviewing search providers’ crawling statistics, every effort is being made to ensure that this site contains no malicious links.
Advertising
To provide the targeted ads found on disparate.info, Google AdSense may make use of the DoubleClick DART cookie. In addition to the privacy policy provided by DoubleClick, you should be aware of the following:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on my site.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to my readers based on their visit to my site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Additionally, Google AdSense may include advertisements from its partner advertisers (third-party advertising companies). These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. Please note that the information powering Google AdSense is independent of the data collected by disparate.info via Google Analytics and the OpenX Ad Server (see above for privacy policy regarding data collected by disparate.info).