Privacy Statement

East Bay Birders Circle

No information about you will be passed along to anyone else without your explicit permission.

Currently, our ISP (california.com) places a cookie on your hard drive so that they can keep track of all the pages that are viewed as part of a single visit (for purposes of preparing statistics on the number of visitors). The cookie contains only your domain name and a randomly generated number identifying your visit - no information about you or your e-mail address is retained. If I wished, I could obtain information about numbers of visitors at various hours, pages most often visited, paths most often used through the site, etc. At present, I do not look at this information, but I might at some time as an aid to improving the site's design. Again, no information in which any individual visitor can be identified is kept at the ISP or by me.

On the East Bay Weather page, the four banners from Weather Underground that give a quick summary of current weather conditions in the East Bay will try to plant cookies from one of the banner advertising companies - many people regard these cookies as undesirable because they can be used to track you as you move around the internet. Weather Underground does not post an easily findable privacy policy. My Internet Explorer set to Medium privacy blocks their cookies.

If you set your browser to reject cookies, your ability to use the site will not be affected.

If you subscribe to the EBB mailing list, any information you give me in personal correspondence is kept confidential. If you post a message to the list, each subscriber will see your e-mail address, but it is not included on the website postings. If someone wants to contact you, I will forward their message to you and let you decide whether to reply rather than giving out your address. Unless compelled by a subpoena or other legal process, I will not reveal the list of subscribers or other information to anyone. The list is never sold or rented.

Thus far, no advertising appears on the website or list messages.  The small monthly cost of the website and mailing list is paid by me. My time is donated.

Larry Tunstall