Privacy Policy and Consent Statement

Privacy Statement:

Thank you for visiting the Fodder File. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our policy within this area.  We will strive to maintain as high a standard and level of confidentiality as possible, but please read the information below to be aware of the Fodder File’s policy.

Collection of data

The Fodder File provides a number of services such as news, online discussion forums/comments, voting polls, Q&A etc.

For some services, the Fodder File may require your e-mail address or other personal information such as your name, age, sex, or health information. Providing us with this personal and identifiable information is, of course, optional. However, in some cases it may not be possible for us to provide the service in question without receiving specific information from you.

Disclosure of data

The Fodder File will use the information received to provide services and to improve the content of the site.  Your personal data may in some situations be seen by third parties, such as operations and maintenance contractors repairing and maintaining the Fodder File’s systems.

The Fodder File may further use the aggregate information to study statistical results and produce summary reports. Such reports will only be seen by Fodder File employees or directors.

The Fodder File will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information without your permission except under special circumstances, for instance if the Fodder File in good faith believes that the law requires disclosure.

Any information collected by the Fodder File will be treated confidentially.

Please remember that any information you reveal, including personally identifiable information in a public forum such as in a discussion forum or a chat, is not subject to this Privacy Policy and can be seen by third parties unrelated to the Fodder File. It is therefore important that you carefully consider what information you disclose in these areas.

Correcting/Updating/Storing Personal Information

The Fodder File stores information only as long as it is necessary. If your personal information changes (such as your address) or you no longer want to use one of our services to which you have subscribed, we will provide a way to correct, update, delete or remove your personal data. This can usually be done by e-mailing our site administrator.

Some information from our discussion forums, chats and services is stored in archives since it is considered useful to future users.

The Fodder File’s Security Policy

When you provide the Fodder File with personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered the information. Whenever the Fodder File handles personal information, regardless of where this occurs, the Fodder File takes every precaution to ensure that your information is treated securely.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, the Fodder File cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit, and you do so at your own risk.

Cookies

To give our users the best experience with our site, a number of our web pages use cookies. Cookies are small text files that we place on your computer to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by. However, once you choose to provide the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand site-usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalise your experience at our web pages (eg to recognise you by name when you return to our site) and to save your password in password-protected areas.

WordPress.com, the host of the Fodder File, gathers non-personal data regarding the visitors to our site on our behalf using cookies and code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors’ screen settings and other general information. The Fodder File uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it improve the services to its users.

If you wish to reject cookies, you can use the process set out below under ‘How to find and control your cookies’.

How to find and control your cookies

If you’re using Netscape 6.0

1. On your Task Bar, click Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies

If you’re using Internet Explorer 6.0

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the ‘Advanced’ button
6. Check the ‘override automatic cookie handing’ box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by Internet Explorer 5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 4.0

1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 3.0

• You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you’re using Netscape Communicator 4.0

1. On your Task Bar, click
2. Edit, then
3. Preferences
4. Click on Advanced
5. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

Links

The Fodder File contains links to other sites. Please observe that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website collecting personally identifiable information.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our website so our users may always know what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use the information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.

The Fodder File is hosted by WordPress.com.  For more information about the WordPress.com Privacy Policy, please visit: http://wordpress.org/about/privacy/