American-Presidents.com takes the privacy of its visitors very seriously. We aim in this document to set out information about how your privacy is protected, what information this site gathers from you and how you can contact us if you have a concern.
American-Presidents.com in and of itself does not collect personal information from visitors at this moment in time. We do not offer a newsletter or a membership system, therefore we do not collect personal information from users. The only instance where personal information is collected is from the contact form. This information is used solely for the purpose of replying to any message sent on this form and will not be passed on to third parties (except in the extreme circumstance of threats against the website, its staff, or other illegal actions).
The History Empire network as a whole does in some cases, where there is always consent, collect personal information. This is the case in areas such as the forum and in commenting on the blog. For details on this you are advised to see the privacy policies on these services themselves. All the details on these services are collected with consent and only used for the purposes required for these services to be used effectively. The details are never shared with third parties and can be deleted upon request - for instance deletion of forum membership would also delete personal information.
The website collects statistics about users in two ways. Firstly the server the website is hosted on collects 'raw usage statistics' which note IP addresses of visitors and which pages and files are accessed at what times by those IP addresses. This information is not stored for longer than the server needs to assess its performance and load and are generally not viewed by humans except where the server requires maintainance. The second way the website collects statistics is from a analytics service called 'Google Analytics. This enables us to track details such as how visitors find the website, how they interact with the website, what geographical area they come from and their computers ability to use various internet technologies. This information is used for improving the website and its in generalised form for marketing purposes. This information does not identify individual users and does not tell us IP addresses of individual users.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
