What follows is our privacy and disclosures policy. We keep an auto-generated policy so we can easily make changes as we add or remove features. However, occasionally, we like to write a tidbit in here first. If you’re here, maybe you followed the link in our cookie notice bar
We’re not in the EU or California, we’re in Washington State. However, we do get some visitors from both and decided that even though we’re a mini blog we’d keep in comliance with current policies. Doing that and finding a cookie solution that is affordable for a website with as many pages as ours, and one that does not break our website or cause technical issues has been a challenge.
Our current status is that:
- We anonymize your IP in Google Analytics so that we could not even find you specifically if we wanted to. IPs collected with star rankings are also anonymized and a cookie is set to remember you so you don’t leave multiple rankings. If you opt-in to our email newsletter, your IP may be collected which gives us a general location of where you are so we can send you event emails and the like for your general area, if you opt in to them.
- We do show advertisements on our website — we need to earn some money from this website so we can make it better and continue to do this and grow this blog. Advertising is one of the ways we support this. We’ve experimented with showing ads only on opt-in, but then a page reload is required and frequent page reloading turned out to be problematic. Currently, for the EU and California our website is showing non-personalized ads.
- We have experimented with using Viglink to monetize our website. It’s a service that adds affiliate links to keywords. Viglink is not loaded until opt-in is completed.
- We use things like Google Maps and YouTube videos, maps from GaiaGPS and RideWithGPS and the like to add “pzazz” (is that even how you spell it?) to our website. Know that the cookies exist. We found blocking them and then unblocking problematic — sometimes videos would not load. If you don’t want to use those things, don’t visit.
- We do not and would not “sell your information,” unless you think that viewing an ad or having anonymized analytics data involves selling your information…and that’s very, very questionable. We will never sell names on our email list or otherwise sell your info to third parties.
Whew! That’s done. Now you can read on or go read one of our posts.
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