At FlipClockFans.com your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available in our footer on every page of this forum.
Session Log Files
As with any forum, log files of all requests for files on this website's web servers are maintained and analyzed. Log files do not capture personal information but do capture the user's IP address, which is automatically recognized by our web servers. This information is never used to identify or locate you for any reason and IP addresses are never shared with other members or other entities.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important and taken very seriously at FlipClockFans. For that reason, children under 13 years of age are not allowed as members of FlipClockFans. FlipClockFans.com will never collect or maintain information at our website from those known to be under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
This site strictly adheres to the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) by never knowingly requesting personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
Cookies
When using the FlipClockFans Forum a a text file called a "cookie" may be placed in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to browse this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Your Email Address, Personal Address and Full Name
At times during interactions between members and forum Administrator, Mackey, you may share your name and address (for example, when Mackey sends you parts for your clock per your request). Your email and name are never shared with any third party or any other member.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by FlipClockFans.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
We collect the following information:
Click-stream data
1. HTTP protocol elements
2. Search terms
3. User's Name
4. Computer information
At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:
1. Birth Date
2. Email Address
3. Telephone
4. Home and/or Business Address
5. Full Name
This data will be used for the following purposes:
1. Completion and support of the current forum based activity.
2. To mail out requested materials.
3. Web site and system administration.
This data will be only used by ourselves (to administer the forum) and rarely our agents (forum software support and hosting company only as needed to properly maintain the forum).