Privacy

Privacy policy, 8/12/2007.

Web Site Visitors

When you visit my website www.bobshowto.com certain information is recorded in a log file regarding your visit.  This is virtually true for every website you might visit.  Your Internet address or IP address.  This can be used to look up the name of your Internet Service Provider and may indicate your locality down to a city, primarily because of the way your ISP names your IP address.  What you've searched for and what search engine is also known.  Also where you last visited on the web may be recorded.  Of course these logs have no actual information about you such as name or mailing address.

Making a Paypal purchase or donation

If when visiting www.bobshowto.com you make a purchase or donation through Paypal.  Paypal records your name, what you've purchased including quantity, and your email address.  Paypal makes this information available to me through the secure Paypal website.  None of this information is stored by myself or bobshowto, nor will it be sold to others.

Email received by BobsHowTo.com

I do save all significant emails I receive and send.  To date I have not added email addresses of those who have mailed me to any address book, etc, which should aid in avoiding any potential virus attack hijacking email addresses.

Virus protection

My virus software updates itself on an automated basis daily.  A full virus scan is done weekly.  Some virus protection software may not scan for adware or may not be as thorough so I also run a spyware scanner.

Spyware, adware protection.

My server was at one point infected with a spyware program.  Now my server is periodically scanned for spyware.

Encryption

I currently do not store information about your visit in any form of encrypted file.  I apologize I simply don't have the technology to achieve this desirable goal.

Your information

I will not sell or distribute any information a visitor has provided me without your prior consent.  I may use anonymous information from the web server logs to improve site performance and for information purposes.

Security

While I do attempt to maintain security of what little information I have if Paypal's security is breached, this situation is out of my control.  If the security of the Windows XP Professional operating system is breached it's conceivable email addresses of those that have communicated with me may be stolen.  This is of course true of any PC with an operating system.

Thanks,
Bob