Here at grouppuzzles.com we recognize that the privacy of your personal information is important. We describe in detail here what information might be collected by visiting our site, how it is used, how you can opt out, and how the information that can be collected is shared.
The information collected when you visit our web-site falls into two broad categories:
All commonly used web browsers provide certain information to every web server to which they connect. This information is logged to a file by the web server so that it can be analyzed later to solve web site problems like configuration errors and security problems, as well as to provide basic marketing statistics, such as how many sessions connect during each hour of the week. The web browser's IP address, which is needed by the web server to send the web page to your browser, is also logged. Since IP addresses are allocated by country, region, and ISP, usage statistics by those criteria can also be generated from the log information.
Information commonly provided by browsers to web servers includes things like:
This type of information can be used by the web server to better tailor the requested web page response to your browser, such as providing the web page in the language your browser is configured to prefer. This information is also often logged to help debug problems. For similar reasons, the web server also logs the date, time, and the name of the web page that was requested.
Web browser cookies are unique identifiers that the web server can use to identify the web browser profile that visited the server page that requested that the cookie be set. Cookies are used to provide services like site logins, shopping carts, and user comment forums, if cookies are enabled. Cookies are usually saved with a browser profile and are sent back to a web site whenever the site is visited again. This allows web sites to remember things like your preferences.
Web browsers typically allow cookies to be deleted in the preferences menu or can be configured to automatically clear all cookies when the browser exits. When a cookie is deleted, the features or services associated with that cookie are no longer available (i.e., the web-site has 'forgotten' you). This is, however, not permanent since a new cookie will be set the next time you visit the web-site unless your browser or Internet security program has a settling to disable cookies in general, or just for specific sites.
Our web site, grouppuzzles.com, contains links to other third party web sites that may also collect information and are subject only to their own privacy policies:
We use third-party advertisements only on those pages on www.grouppuzzles.com that provides free puzzles or the step-by-step solutions and answer grids to those free puzzles. No advertising will be found on those web pages that provide step-by-step solutions for puzzles found in any of our books available for purchase through CreateSpace or Amazon.
Some advertisers may use technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, when they advertise on our site. These advertisers, like Google though the Google Adsense program, can collect various information about your IP address, browser, etc., as described in the first section.
Google, through its DoubleClick advertising program, may use DART cookies for interest-based ad serving. Any site that you visit that uses DART cookies helps to define your web browsing interests and, potentially, provide ads that are more likely to interest you. DART cookies do not track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, telephone number, credit card numbers, etc. You can opt out of DART ad serving on all sites by visiting: https://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx