Privacy Policy

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At cleverdude.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit cleverdude.com, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Opt Out Policy

If you don’t want me to have your email address, then make one up or just don’t comment or email me.

If you use the “Subscribe to Comments” feature in any of our articles, and wish to stop receiving email updates when someone comments, I provide a link within the email to unsubscribe. If something doesn’t work, then email me and I will remove you manually.

If you subscribe to my emails via Feedburner, you have an option within each email to unsubscribe. If something doesn’t work, then email me and I will remove you manually.

External Links

I have no control of other people’s sites. If you click on a link to a URL other than http://www.cleverdude.com, you’re leaving my site into unknown waters. Browse the internet at your own peril. I try to only place links to other blogs and websites I myself have visited and recommend, but some ad networks do not allow much control over ads shown on my site.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on cleverdude.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (interest based targeting). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses  non personally identifiable information . It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.  You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party 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 our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

If I ever make policy updates, I’ll change this page. Since we don’t send unsolicited emails except as described above, I’m not going to email you the updates.

Updated November 21st, 2011