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Privacy Statement
July 25th 1998
Tipping.org has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: Tipping.org
Information Automatically Logged
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Currently it is only used by the polling system to track users who have already voted and not allow them to vote more than once from the same IP address.
Cookies
Our Site uses cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. Again cookies are used by the polling system to track users who have already voted once for the day. The Discussions Board may use cookies if the user chooses to turn on this feature. It is used to remember the user's ID and password. No other information is gathered by the cookie.
Advertisers
We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.
Personal Information
This Web site does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted except when the user chooses to subscribe to the discussions board.
We do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes. It is strictly used for authentication.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. Tipping.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Your username and password are used to authenticate you on the board. It is not given to anyone and your email address is invisible to other users
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. All data collected by the mailing list subscription form is kept in an encrypted file on the website. This information is totally useless unless retrieved by the Webmaster. If the file is lost all information is irretrievable. All that is kept in this file is an email address entered by the user upon subscribing to the mailing list. All Discussion Board user information is also kept in a secure database on the web site. We take precautions to prevent its misuse.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us via the contact form.
Manny Gonzalez
The Original Tipping Page