Privacy Policy

The PC Technology Guide respects the privacy of visitors, and will not disclose any information gathered during registration to the forums or through emails received to anyone else unless this is explicitly agreed by both parties. PCTechGuide may occasionally communicate with members by email, but will not spam or in any way abuse members' email addresses for marketing or any other purpose.

Statistics

Statistics are gathered on the site's usage, which includes details on browsers, resolutions, country of origin and so on, but this is anonymous data that is not connected to individuals who visit the site.

Visitor IP Logging

IP logging is used for various reasons on the PCTechGuide website, particularly when members make posts on the forums or comment on the blog. This is for own security purposes, but visitors' IP addresses may also be used for geo-location (see below).

Be assured that this is anonymous, and is not used to track or trace any individuals with the exception of any site abuse. This could be through hacking attempts, misuse of the forums or blog comments facilities, or site harvesting. In these cases IP blocking will be affected, and, depending on the severity of the offence, IP tracing may be performed leading to possible further action.

Geo-Location (a.k.a. geotargetting)

The PCTechGuide uses visitors' IP addresses to idenfity where they are in the world, and this information is used to deliver relevant, targetted content to visitors, especially around advertisements. PCTechGuide uses the GeoLite Country database provided by MaxMind, which is a GNU licensed product. Fast, easy to install and implement, this is highly recommended for any webmasters looking for a geotargetting solution.

Cookies

The PC Technology Guide uses cookies (tiny data files stored on your computer) to track member visits and log-in sessions. This is completely anonymous, and absolutely no sensitive data is stored on the cookies at all.

Advertising

Most advertising displayed on the site is served by the following advertisement brokers:

Click on the links to visit the respective companies' privacy statements.

Note that some companies advertise directly with PCTechGuide. These can change quite often, so they will not be listed on this page. However, details can be given on any advertisements on the site if requested.

Last Update: Tue Oct 17th 2006