First Things First: Your Privacy
I not only will not provide your email address to any advertiser or data broker, I actually work rather hard to keep it secret. Your address will not be provided to anyone who is not directly associated with this site unless we have your permission, or are required to do so by law.
If you subscribe to email notifications, I further protect your privacy and email security in general by requiring that new subscribers “confirm” or “verify” their subscription request. This prevents people from harassing others by subscribing them to something they may not want. When you subscribe, you’re sent a message asking you to confirm your subscription. You must click the link in this message before your subscription will be activated. Of course, you may always cancel (or “unsubscribe”) at any time: there is a link at the bottom of every notification to make it easy.
California Consumer Privacy Act & Etc.
I consider my policies to be stricter than the CCPA …even though I’m not required to follow that law (my gross revenues are far less than $25 million minimum cutoff; I don’t buy or sell the personal information of any consumers or households, let alone 50,000 of them; and I earn nothing, let alone more than half of my annual revenue, from selling consumers’ personal information). These policies apply to all customers, not just those covered by the CCPA or the CCPA, the GDPR, Brazil’s LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados), or any other privacy law that comes along from time to time.
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Cookies
My sites — and any advertisers who make the free services possible — may use cookies or “trackers” to get statistics on who sees what ads, whether you click on the ads, etc. My sites also use cookies to (for instance) stop showing you “hovering” subscription forms when you dismiss them. I have no way to personally identify any specific person from these cookies.
Third-party advertising companies may also use cookies to serve ads. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of specific interest to you, and their privacy policies apply.
On some of my sites, Google may be one of these third-party vendors, and they use cookies to serve ads. Google uses a special DART cookie that enables it to serve ads to you based upon your visit to this site and others that you visit.
If you don’t want to have this DART cookie on your computer, you can opt out.
eCommerce Policies
I currently do not anticipate any sales activities from this web site. Any recommendations made by podcast hosts or guests are their opinions, not an endorsement by this site, and you visits to any other site will obviously be governed by the policies in place at those sites.
Affiliate Relationships
You should assume that any links on this site, in site emails, or mentioned in our podcast episodes are to a site that has an affiliate relationship and/or another material connection to the providers of goods and services mentioned, and the speaker may be compensated when you purchase from such a provider. You should always perform due diligence before buying goods or services from anyone — via the Internet or offline.