Privacy Policy

This is a Privacy Policy for TreeWalk DNS. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://treewalkdns.com/. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://treewalkdns.com/privacy.htm. This policy does not tell users where they can go to exercise their opt-in or opt-out options. This is further explained in the following statements for groups that employ cookies. We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by e-mail at support@treewalkdns.com?subject=Privacy_Policy.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

• Directive 95/46/EC: Published in Official Journal L 281 , 23/11/1995 P. 0031 - 0050: "Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data."

Additional Information

This policy is valid until 1 Jan, 2010 at 12:00:00 PST.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 3 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group: Anonymous Visitors

We collect the following information:

• Navigation and click-stream data
• Computer information
• Interactive data
• Other access log fields
• Request date
• Request time
• User agent information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

• Completion and support of the current activity.
• Web site and system administration.
• Research and development.
• Anonymous user analysis.
• Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
This data, available through standard web server logs, is collected for statistical purposes. This allows us to optimize the content delivery by customizing our pages to best serve the majority of our visitors.

Group: Forum Visitors

We collect the following information:

• Request date
• Request time
• Other access log fields

At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:

• HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

• Completion and support of the current activity.
• Web site and system administration.
• Research and development.
• Anonymous user analysis.
• Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.
• User analysis.
• User profiling and decision-making.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
We use cookies with the forums' web pages to store user details and login status during a visit to auto-fill your email address and username, although it will work without accepting the cookie. The cookies are persistent in order to identify any new posts since a user's last visit with a change of icon to a thread. Users can safely deny persistent cookies.

Group: Session-only Preferred Cascading Style Sheet

We collect the following information:

• Request date
• Request time

At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:

• HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

• Completion and support of the current activity.
• Web site and system administration.
• Research and development.
• One-time tailoring.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:
Users may be presented with options to save preferences for alternate styles we use for our website. This session-only cookie will expire at the end of the user's visit.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• Site administration
• Completing the user's current activity
• User targeting
• Pseudononymous analysis
• Pseudonym-based decision-making
• User analysis
• Individual-based decision-making
• Research and development

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:
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The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6. Please note that Internet Explorer's "Privacy Report" may cite examples that might not accurately reflect the Privacy Policy of this site, therefore you are invited to refer to the conditions and examples as stated on this page for more concise information.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.

W3C P3P Compliance: this compact policy is also considered to be acceptable by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) P3P (Platform for Privacy Preference) Validator. You can test the P3P file or the global policy file at the W3C (use any 'Back' function to return here).