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Privacy Policy

Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, Canto II

Your privacy is your personal property. I don't spy on you and I don't sell, barter, or give away information about you. Although your privacy is as secure as I can make it here, you might already have lost it while setting up your connection to me. Your employer, your access provider, law enforcement officials, or some other snoop might be watching you now. If privacy is important to you, you need to assertively and intelligently protect it.

My privacy policy is short and straightforward so you can keep it all in your head at once. Contact me if you want to know more.

While you are browsing here...

The URL you see is the URL you get. I won't shove you down clickthroughs, fire popups at you, and lay diversion mouseovers in front of your trackball. I might – but I do not now – use bugs, cookies, cupcakes, or some other baked good, vermin, or pest to identify or tabulate you when you visit me but I won't use them to collect your personal information for profit or a third party. If you've closed your cookies and scripting, this site will still work just fine. Most Web servers collect information on:

• The Internet address of the computer you use;
• The browser you use;
• The page you visited prior to arriving at the site;
• The pages you browse while you are at the site;
• The page you go to when you leave;
• The date and time of your visit.

Good Web publishers use this information to make their sites better but won't share it, sell it, or make it public without your explicit consent.

When you use my email, forms, or anything else...

I'll tell you when I want to publicly use anything you submit to me. If you refuse, I won't use it. I won't share, sell, or make any information public without your explicit consent. I live by my name, not yours.

I won't disclose anything you provide me without your permission unless the law forces me. If I think that will happen, I will try to tell you ahead of time – I don't like answering depositions. If your civil liberties are at stake, I will not disclose any information without a court order and the advice of an attorney at law. I can't control all the events that can compromise your privacy but I won't willingly join any compromise.

Protect yourself by not providing personal information in the first place. I don't require it and I don't want it if you don't want me to have it.