Your privacy and peace of mind is important to me!

This document was created to outline my policy on the following:

1. information I collect about you during your visit to my site
2. what I do with that information
3. unsolicited email
4. 3rd party sites and your privacy

• Information is obtained about you in a number of ways.
  1. My servers create log files of all requests made for web pages and graphics and these logs contain the time of the request, the IP address of the request, the resource requested, the browser and OS used to make the request, and the web link which was clicked to cause the request to be made (called the "referer"). I analyse these logs to get a better idea of when my site is the busiest, which items are the most (and least) popular, which ISPs my visitors are using to access my site, and which pages on the web link to me. All of this information is used to improve the content on my site and your experience while browsing it. At no time do I store information about specific users, unless there is evidence that a user is making requests from my system intended to breach security and gain illegal access.
  2. My guestbook contains fields for you to add Name, email address, and homepage URL. The only place this information is recorded it is in my guestbook. You should know that supplying your email address or web page URL on any web page makes that address available to anyone on the Internet. I recommend you use a "free email account" like Hotmail or Yahoo Mail whenever you sign a guestbook. You have my solemn promise that you will receive no unsolicited email from Digital Blasphemy as a result of your signing my guestbook. You will not be added to any list of mine (other than the list of people who signed the guestbook, which is the guestbook itself). You should know, however, that the comments you make in my guestbook become my property and may be reprinted in any form and at any time. If such a decision to reprint is made, your email address will NOT be included without my first request explicit permission from you to do so. Digital Blasphemy takes no responsibility for any unsolicited email you may receive as a result of a 3rd party "harvesting" your email address or URL from my guestbook. The only way to prevent this from happening is to omit this information when you sign.
  3. My site has a feature which allows you to "Recommend" one of my webpages (or my site as a whole) to your friends. This form requires you to give your own name and email address and to supply the names and addresses of the friends you want to write. ALL DATA SUBMITTED TO THE RECOMMENDATION SCRIPT IS LOGGED. I record your IP address, the time of your recommendation, the page you recommended, your name, your email, the names and email addresses of the people you write to, and any text you include in your recommendation. This information is only recorded to help me detect abusive use of my email system, and to prevent anyone using it in a way which would comprise my policy on spam. Once again, submitting your information to this form will not add you to any mailing list of mine, nor will the people you write receive unsolicited email from my site (besides the recommendation email you send). The recommendation email is sent with your name and email address in the "reply-to" field.
  4. When you sign up to become a member of my site, I will collect your name, address, city, state, zip, email address, credit card number and credit card expiration date. Your credit card information is passed directly to my bank and is not stored on any of my servers. Your physical address is used to verify your credit card with my processor, and only the numeric portion of it (your street number) is transmitted during the transaction. Your email address is automatically added to my password database, so you can retrieve your password should you lose it. Once you are a member you'll also have the option to add your address to one or more automated mailing lists (one of them, for example, sends you an email when your account is about to expire). The same anti-spam policy I stated for my "free gallery mailing list" also applies to the mailing lists in the member's gallery. They are "opt-in" only and have clear instructions on how to remove your address at any time.

     Your physical address will NEVER be used to send you unsolicited mailing from Digital Blasphemy. When you sign up as a member of my site, you must choose a username and password to gain access. This username appears in my server logs and is used to detect illicit attempts to gain access.

• What do I do with the information I collect?: First of all, you can rest easy knowing that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER will Digital Blasphemy share your personal information with any 3rd party. Your email address will never be given (or sold) to spammers and, if you're a member, your signup data will never be be given (or sold) to junk mailers. Digital Blasphemy is 100% committed to your privacy and your peace of mind. This policy will NEVER change.

  The information I collect from and about you (listed above) is used only to improve my site and your experience using it. Email addresses are collected only with your permission and are only used in accordance with the stated purpose of the list you joined. Joining one list on my site (the free gallery list, for example) does not automatically add you to any other lists (like one of my member's gallery lists).

  I use information from my server logs (see point one above) to determine the most (and least) popular content on my site and to adjust accordingly. I use the IP address information to help diagnose problems with my systems. For example, if AOL users turn out to be a large percentage of my visitors (they are) then I should probably post special instructions for them (I have). Server log information is only used in aggregate form, and is never used to isolate specific visitor browsing patterns.

  Member's username information stored in my server logs is used only to detect illicit attempts to access protected data.

• Unsolicited Email: It is and shall forever be Digital Blasphemy's policy to never send you email that you didn't expressly ask for. If you send me an email through your personal email account, of course, I may choose to drop you a line sometime in the future. This would be a personal issue only though, and you take the same risk whenever you send an email to another individual. I do not collect the addresses of people who send me email, but I may add your address to my personal address book if we have an interesting conversation. If you don't want me to, just say so when you write me. This policy also extends to people who use my feedback form\. No information collected from that form will be used to send you unsolicited email or identify you in any way other than as a friendly person who emailed me.

• Third Parties Collecting Information about Digital Blasphemy Users: Digital Blasphemy works with several third parties which help support my free content. Follow the links below to inspect the privacy policies of the sites I conduct business with.

  They are:

  • Burst Media, LLC (serves banner ads)
  • Google Adsense (serves banner ads)
  • Valueclick Media (serves banner ads)
  • Webshots.com (linked to from my pages by mutual agreement)
  • Amazon.com (linked to from my pages by mutual agreement)

  If any of the above information is unclear, don't hesitate to write me for a clarification. Basically it all boils down to this: your privacy and peace of mind are of the utmost importance to me. I will never do anything to jeopardize your trust in me (Ryan Bliss) or my site (Digital Blasphemy)

  This document was last updated on Saturday, 23-Sep-2006 17:33:39 CDT