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We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information such as visitor numbers and interests.

Your IP address may also be visible to our advertisers and third party visitor counter services that we may use (such as Sitemeter.com).

Advertisers

We use outside ad companies to display banner, text and other ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner or other ads are collected by our ad companies, and we do not have access to this information.

You should also be aware that some advertisers may utilise technology such as cookies and web beacons (including in their ads on this site), which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. These types of technology are generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to a person in New York, for example) or selecting which ads to show based on specific sites previously visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and recipe sites).

We use third party visitor counter services (for example Sitemeter.com) to help operate, manage and monitor this site. These services may display adverts on this site (typically a button, graphic, or text link, although this may vary). Just like other advertisers, such visitor counter services may utilise technology such as cookies and web beacons, and may have access to information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security; however, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

In general, regarding cookies with advertisements, you should be aware of the following key points:

• As described above, adverts from third party advertisers (including banners, buttons, text links, and visitor counters, etc.) may appear on this site
• As described above, adverts from third party advertisers (including Google on many of our sites), may use cookies to serve their adverts
• As described above, cookies from third party advertisers allow them to serve adverts based on visits to both our companies' sites and on visits to other sites on the Internet (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and recipe sites)
• As described above, our company does not have access to the information in any cookies used by third party advertisers
• As described above, cookies may be able to be disabled using browser settings and/or security software, but doing so may affect your use of this site and may prevent you from using certain features of this and other sites
• To learn more about Google's privacy policies, use of cookies and your options in relation to opting-out or not having this information used, please see http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

We do not currently use cookies or web beacons for any other function on this web site.

Personal Information

This Web site does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted.

Since we do not collect any personal information on this Web site, we do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes.

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