Privacy Policy

Information collected

Our web site automatically logs technical information provided from your computer, including but not limited to the apparent IP address of your computer and pages that have been visited. This information is used to create general statistical reports about our website and visitors. This information is not attached to your name or identifying personal details.

Information you voluntarily give us through your contact with us via email, in person, on the telephone, etc. may be retained by us in order to serve you.

Cookies

Our web site does not use cookies. However, our search box uses Google to perform the search, and Google may set cookies in the process. You can control cookie settings in your browser.

Use of your information

We use information we collect to:

Disclosure of your information

We never sell or rent your personal information.

We disclose your personal information only:

Links to other websites

For your convenience and information, links are provided from this website to other third party websites. We have no control over and make no promises regarding the policies or actions of third party websites.

Your California privacy rights

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to request deletion, and the right to opt out of the sale of personal information, and that to exercise these rights, you may contact us.

California residents are strongly encouraged to contact their representatives to protest unreasonable laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act which requires this notice. Imagine if every country, and every state or subdivision, required similar notices. Every website would have thousands of needless and pointless notices, like this one. It would be as bad as the EU's GDPR requirements that make you click thru cookie authorizations on every website. Imagine the impact on poor webmasters like ours who would have to do all that when they'd rather be doing something useful, like posting information you actually want. It's enough to make people who want to help their customers and provide good service want to quit in despair. Nobody likes doing pointless things for no good reason other than there's some idiotic rule that says they are required to, lest they be dragged through the courts by those who, despite suffering no harm of any kind (or even pretending to), look to profit from the complexity of law that applies to people in jurisdictions far from California. Most people prefer to do useful things that help people, esp. customers - our webmaster certainly does.

If you think the above indicates a negative attitude toward privacy compliance, you are correct. We deeply dislike overbearing, needless, and pointless regulation - nobody benefits from this except regulators and those who weaponize the legal system. This is the sort of thing that destroys confidence in the justice of the law and of the legal system. We do not have a dismissive attitude toward privacy, as we think the rest of this policy, and our practice, show. We take privacy seriously and stand strongly against misuse of private information.

You are invited to take advantage of the following offer: The first person who emails indicating that they have read this Privacy Policy will receive $100 from the webmaster's pocket (please provide PayPal address). The second person will receive $50 and the third, $25. The webmaster (who has gotten used to writing in the 3rd person) has been looking at the server logs since 2007 and nobody other than the webmaster himself has, so far, ever looked at it. (This offer does not apply to AIs, robots, or Emily Dahir (hi, Emily!) and applies only to people who read this policy independently of others knowing about it.) You may assume that if this offer is still here, nobody has claimed it (offer was posted 2025-12-09).

Changes

This policy may be updated in the future. Any revisions will be posted here.

Version: 2025-12-09