Privacy Policy for Guitarist.com
Guitarist.com doesn't use cookies or any other means to track your
personal information. Nor has it ever. The only visitor information
collected by Guitarist.com comes from logfiles. Just about every
website in existence generates a running logfile of basic information
such as visitors' IP
addresses, ISPs (internet service provider, such as AOL or Comcast),
browsers used to visit the site (such as Internet
Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited the site, and which pages
you
visited throughout the site. Websites live on web servers, and web
servers generate log files. That's just a universal fact of life on the
World Wide Web.
However, I've recently been experimenting with placing third-party advertisements on Guitarist.com (using Google's AdSense,
in particular). These ads generally contain some kind of
technology, such as cookies and web beacons, to keep track
of your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit
our
site, etc., and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This
information is
generally used for geotargeting purposes -- showing Portland guitar
lesson to someone in Portland, for example; or showing certain ads
based
on specific webpages visited, such as showing classical guitar ads to
someone who
frequents the classical guitar pages on Guitairist.com, or
flamenco-related ads to someone who vists my flamenco pages.
You
can chose to disable or selectively turn off cookies in your
browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton
Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to
interact with Guitarist.com as well as other websites. This could
include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging
into forums or accounts.
So, to summarize: Guitarist.com isn't
interested in your personal information. I don't have access to it
(since I don't set cookies or web beacons or anything else), I don't
collect it, I don't sell it, I don't trade it, I'm not interested in
it. But some third-party advertisers on Guitarist.com do
use cookies and the like in their ad campaigns. You have the option of
disabling these tracking mechanisms. But I really wouldn't worry
about them.
John Philip Dimick
Owner, Guitarist.com