Privacy Policies of This Web Site
I respect your privacy
- The Owner, Data Controller, and Webmaster of this site (we are one and the same) have endeavoured to comply with all applicable laws and regulations governing the collection, use, and retention of private and personal data;
- Further, I believe that the policies described below are much more strict and privacy-friendly than those practised by almost any other web site;
- If you have any questions or concerns, please Contact Me.
Your E-mail Address
- If you use the Contact page to communicate with me privately, only a name and your e-mail address are asked for, in order that I may reply to you. By voluntarily supplying that information, you agree that I may use that information in order to reply to you;
- An electronic copy or a printed copy of our correspondence may be retained for future reference on whatever subject we discussed;
- Copies of our correspondence will not be retained indefinitely, although it is impossible to say how long they might be retained (it depends on how interesting the correspondence was);
- Your name and e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose, and will never be shared with third parties, unless you have explicitly agreed to that for some specified purpose, discussed in our correspondence.
Personal Identifying Information (PII)
- Except for the voluntary e-mail information discussed above, no personal identifying information (PII) is collected or stored by this site when you visit these pages.
Information We Collect
- Only your IP address (which is not considered to be personal identifying information since it is not necessarily unique) and your browser's User Agent (UA) string, are collected from you by this site, like most web sites.
- Your IP address, browser's User Agent (UA), and the dates and times at which you visited the pages of this site may be retained in the server logs archived for indefinite periods of time for technical website management and the study of historical trends in numbers and kinds of visitors. These archives are not used for any other purpose and are deleted when they are no longer of use to the Webmaster;
- Your IP address and other information will never be shared with third parties, except as noted above.
- Please note that the servers and the server logs are all located in Canada.
Visitor Counting Software
- This site does make use of visitor counting software (Awstats, Webalizer, and Analog) in order to understand what visitors' interests are and to help make the site more useful;
- No Personal Identifying Information (PII) is recorded by this software.
Tracking
- This site does NOT employ any tracking software that would track visitors;
- Even if you choose to be tracked (that is, you have not invoked the Do Not Track feature of your browser), this site does NOT and can NOT track you;
- Also, there are no third-party advertisements or third-party scripts on this site which would collect any information about you, or plant tracking cookies or "web" cookies in your browser.
Data Retention
- As explained in the sections above, while some data is retained for variable periods of time, no data is retained unnecessarily;
- Please see the section on Requests for Deletion below.
Requests for Deletion
- If at any time you wish to review any of your retained data (if any exists) or to have it deleted (if any exists), please contact the Data Controller or the Webmaster using the form provided;
- You are entitled to do this.
Hostile Visitor Activity
Regardless of the above, if you engage in any hostile or anti-social activity, such as, but not limited to, any of the following :
- Spamming,
- Denial of service (DoS) attacks,
- Probing for security vulnerabilities,
- Attempting to access restricted files or directories,
- Attempting to upload to the server any code or script whatsoever, malicious or otherwise,
- Or any similarly undesirable or threatening activity.
Then, any information retained about you, including your name (if known), e-mail address (if known), IP address, browser's User Agent string, and dates and times of your visits to this website, together with the details of your activity, may be reported in full to appropriate civil authorities and to security experts and other third-parties in appropriate technical fora.
- Only security-related activities by legitimate security researchers are exempt from these counter-measures.
For Visitors living in countries where the GDPR is in effect
In addition to the above terms and undertakings, if you live in a country where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in legal effect, the following terms apply :
- You may contact the Data Controller at the same address as the Webmaster, that is, at webmaster at this domain (ve3oat.ca);
- You are entitled to access, correct, delete, and limit processing of any personal data about you held here (if any exists);
- You are entitled to receive a copy of any personal data about you held here (if any exists) so that it can be used by another processor;
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
- Be aware that since your IP Address is probably not unique to you, it is not considered to be Personal Identifying Information;
- Be aware that none of the above GDPR provisions and protections will apply if you engage in Hostile Visitor Activity (see section above).
Web Design Philosophy and Security
Please also see the page on Web Design Philosophy and Security.