Privacy Policy
The privacy of visitors to Terrastories.com is important to us. At Terrastories.com, we recognize and uphold your privacy. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit Terrastories.com, and also how we safeguard your information. We will never sell your personal information to third parties.
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 message for your first few visits, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on Terrastories.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).
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.
As of April 2009, Google AdSense began implementing their interest-based advertising initiative. As part of this initiative, Google uses a DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to you based on your visits to sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy
Personal Information
Terrastories will make every best effort to protect your privacy. We will not share your email address with any third party. Your username, personal information, and email address will be kept strictly confidential. However, we may notify you from time to time, by email, of any changes made to Terrastories or any news related to the site.