Rope and Wire Privacy Policy
Collection
of personally identifiable information:
Rope
and Wire does not collect email addresses or other personally
identifiable data from our visitors. We do keep on file, a backup
copy of the email address along with a copy of the content from those
who send a submission to Rope and Wire and had their submission
posted to the site.
Rope and Wire does not sell or otherwise
disclose email addresses to anyone.
Links:
This
web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Rope and
Wire is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.
Cookies:
Rope
and Wire does not use cookies. Although some of the sites we are
linked to might.
Cookie Basics...
What
is a cookie?
A
cookie is a small text file sent to your computer by a website's
computer (the server). Some cookies expire and vanish from your
computer when you exit the site that set them. Some are persistent
cookies that remain on your computer's hard drive for a predetermined
time (say, 14 days) or, in some cases, for much longer (say, until
you purge all cookies from your hard drive).
Are
cookies used for spying? Are they an invasion of privacy?
In
the early days of the Internet, cookies got a pretty bad rap, and
many misconceptions about cookies persist. Therefore, it is important
to note that the vast majority of cookies do nothing more than
session tracking. That is, they tell a website that a user visited
the site, clicked through to certain pages, stayed for a certain
amount of time, etc. The website and its owners never know any
personal information about the user, only that someone visited
certain pages. Cookies are used in this fashion to monitor traffic so
that the website owners know which pages get used, which pages get
ignored, and the like. Feedback from this process helps site owners
tailor and improve their sites.
After session tracking, probably
the next most common function cookies serve is to help make Web
browsing more convenient for the user. For example, if you go to your
favorite online store, the site might display a message that seems
tailored to you: "Welcome back, Jane Doe." When you
purchase an item, the site may "remember" your shipping
address from the last time you ordered.
What
sort of information does a cookie contain?
Your
internet service provider, operating system, browser type, screen
resolution and number of colors, CPU type, your internet service
provider's server, your IP address, and what server you were on last.
Other information can be added to a cookie, but only information that
you give to the site that's setting the cookie. Cookies don't contain
truly sensitive data like credit card numbers.
Who
uses cookies?
Most
major sites on the web, including search engines, commercial sites,
and non-profit sites use cookies. Many sites would be inconceivable
without cookies, like free email providers or online stores that
remember who you are so you don't have to re-type your address
information each time you buy.
Why
use cookies?
As
mentioned above, cookies provide a range of services from helping Web
site owners monitor traffic and usage on their sites to making online
shopping easier for customers to remembering passwords. Cookies are
also used to gather and store data like user hardware and software
specifications (so, for example, a Web site owner can be assured that
their online movie will work for you).
Can
cookies be used to view the private contents of my computer?
No.
Cookies cannot be used to view data on your computer. Cookies cannot
be used to "go get stuff" from elsewhere on your computer,
and cookies cannot change or delete files from your computer. Also:
cookies are not computer viruses!
DoubleClick
DART Cookies in Third Party Advertising:
We
use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our
website. These companies may use information about your visits to
this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. Google, as a third party
vendor, uses a DoubleClick DART cookie to serve ads on this site.
This cookie helps marketers learn how well their Internet advertising
campaigns or paid search listings perform. Many marketers and
Internet websites use DoubleClick’s DART technology to deliver and
serve their advertisements or manage their paid search listings.
DoubleClick’s DART products set or recognize a unique, persistent
cookie when an ad is displayed or a paid listing is selected. The
information that the DART cookie helps to give marketers includes the
number of unique users their advertisements were displayed to, how
many users clicked on their Internet ads or paid listings, and which
ads or paid listings they clicked on.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.