Paul’s Blog Privacy Statement

Overview

At Paul’s Blog we understand that using services online involves a great deal of trust on your part. Nearly everyone deserves to be free of prying eyes, cameras, and picture machines that might steal your soul. We take this trust very seriously and make it a priority to protect the confidentiality of the personally identifiable information (“PII”) you provide to us. (PII includes information that can be linked to you as a specific individual, such as your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address.) Sometimes we need information to provide services that you request, and this Privacy Statement explains what information we will collect and how we will use it. By using this site, you consent to the information practices described in this Privacy Statement.

Paul’s Blog abides by all the fancy laws relating to privacy, including those between the United States and the European Union, and complies with the Safe Harbor principles published by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

This Privacy Statement applies to Paul’s Blog Corporate Web site. It does not apply to other online or offline web sites created by Paul Richardson, products or services.
We created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Paul’s Blog. It also does not apply to your employer. In fact, if your employer makes you sign all kinds of crazy stuff about how they do have a right to spy on your every keystroke, you should probably write your senator, or protest at the entrance to their freagin property.

I will really make an effort once a year or so to use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We (meaning me, myself, and I, Paul Richardson) will use cookies (not chocalate chip) to let your own computer (not my server) save your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit the comments sections (if and when they are available at this website), and to keep a note of the fact that you are logged in. The comments registration form is a pain in the behind, because it requires (or will require) users to give contact information (like their name and email address), so I will also try to avoid that kind of crap. The customer’s contact information is used to contact the visitor only when some freak gives me their contact info, and offers to give me money. Users may opt-out of receiving ugly images and text by JUST CHANGING THE CHANNEL; see the choice/opt-out section below. This site contains links to other sites. Paul’s Blog is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. OK?

Our site uses an online super advanced space-age DIGITAL eform for customers to request information and services. We collect visitors’ contact information (like their email address, and whether they were jerky). The customer’s contact information is used to get in touch with the visitor only when the visitor offers money to do so. We will not give or sell this contact information to any third party, because we alone want your money.

Information Collected About You

Paul’s Blog collects personally identifiable information (“PII”) about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide, because our psychic efforts continue to fail us. PII includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address, and whether you are cool, or some kind of freagin nerd. On all Paul’s Blog WebPages that collect PII, we specifically describe what information is required in order to provide you with the product or service that you have requested.

Paul’s Blog may collect PII when you:
• Post to comments on this website 
• Submit a rating 
• Use a self-quiz interactive questionnaire
• Sign up for the newsletter (whoo hoo!)
• Contact Paul’s Blog corporate International Headquarters with offers of Money

Public Forums

This site may at times make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. If you don’t know that yet, then what cave have you been living in?

Choice / Opt-Out

Users can sign up for Paul’s Blog RSS feed using their email address, or the other half dozen buttons and stuff on this website. The user can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time by following the Unsubscribe link using their RSS reader software. Most programs have a way to do this without contact the source of the feed (aka, this website).

Correct / Update

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

• By resubmitting the ‘Customer Inquiry’ form and changing the information there
• By telephoning Paul’s Blog and POLITELY notifying them over the phone
• By sending physical postal mail to the contact address of Paul’s Blog using HANDWRITTEN text

Computer Information

Paul’s Blog may collect certain technical information from your computer when you request a webpage during a visit to this website. This information is collected from your computer’s Web browser and may include your IP address, operating system, Web browser software (e.g. Netscape Navigator, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.), screen resolution, and referrer Web site. Wireless users: Please check with your wireless company if you are using your cellular phone to access the Internet to understand whether PII may be used to identify you.

Cookies and Other Web Technologies

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and cookies set by most servers can only be read by that server usually.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, a can save the condition of an online form you have filled out, so that if you click away from it and then back, the form state could be saved under some circumstances.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you will not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or other web sites that you visit.

Another type of cookie, is the chocolate chip cookie. I like it.

Use of Your Information

Paul’s Blog will use your information for only four possible purposes:

• To store your information for you and deliver it to you when you request it, in case you are really confused.
• To help you quickly find services or information about Paul’s Blog, frisking you along the way.
• To help us respond to your inquiries, or requests, and really slam you hard based on the dirt we find.
• To learn about how our services can be improved and serve you better, or possibly get more money from you.

You have the option of receiving alerts of product upgrades, special offers, updated information, and other new services from Paul’s Blog RSS feed via the ‘Customer Inquiry’ form.

Sharing Your Information

Paul’s Blog does not and will not sell or rent your personal information (PII) to anyone. EVER.

Our Legal Obligations

Paul’s Blog may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Paul’s Blog or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Paul’s Blog, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Paul’s Blog, its website, or the public.

Although we may be ignorant of the law, we acknowlege our obligation to follow it.

Other Web Sites

There are several places throughout the website of Paul’s Blog that may link you to other Web sites that do not operate under Paul’s Blog information privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use, and share information. Paul’s Blog is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of Paul’s Blog.net domain.

Remember, its a big world out there, with lots of scarey wierdos.

Use of Web Beacons

Paul’s Blog Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes called single-pixel gifs – that allow Paul’s Blog to count users who have visited those pages. Paul’s Blog may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personal information on Paul’s Blog; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about Paul’s Blog Web site usage.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.

Notice how we placed this tiny little snibbet "burried" way at the bottom of this bologne. Boys and girls, keep in mind here that a "single-pixel gifs" is an image (like a graphic) which is so teeny-tiny, you can just barely see it, unless it’s a white dot on a black background on a very bright screen.

Protecting Your Information

We want you to feel confident about using Paul’s Blog and sharing your information. Unfortunately, you can’t fix "stupid" and some folks just type their credit card info all over the web without doing much checking up on those websites. But here at Paul’s Blog we help to protect the security of personal information and honor your choices for its intended use. Our goal is to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction, and to trick you into giving up some money to us. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure, such as "whatever the defaults are". For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access, which are located in controlled environments (like my backpack laptop and the USB thumb drive on my keychain).

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may occasionally update this Privacy Statement if forced to do so for some wacky reason. When we do, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the top of the Privacy Statement. For material changes to this Privacy Statement or how Paul’s Blog will use your PII, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Statement and any updates.

If you have questions about our Privacy Statement, please use our contact form.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Paul’s Blog
602 N. Vinton Ave.
Lubbock, TX 79416

Cell: 806-543-0087