Information Automatically Logged

IP addresses are logged (as is standard for all websites). While the information about your IP address is used to count visitors in the aggregate, it CANNOT and IS NOT used to gather any information about you individually or personally. Visitors to our sites site are anonymous unless they deliberately and intentionally CHOOSE to provide an email address or additional information in a voluntary fashion (for example, to subscribe to a newsletter). We do not sell any information about you to third parties, and generally speaking do not have access to information about you unless you specifically provide it for a specific purpose.

Advertisers

On occasion we use outside ad companies 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.

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 our sites 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).

You can chose 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.

Personal Information

This Web site does not require or covertly collect any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted. However, if you choose purchase from us, you are asked to supply basic information required to complete your order. Once again, we do not share this information with anyone, and in fact, do not even have access to sensitive information such as credit card details.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Bacal and Associates is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.