WoodTurner's Resource Privacy Policy

WoodTurner's Resource is committed to ensuring that the privacy of its members is respected and protected. This policy statement describes what we do with information you provide, how we collect and use anonymous statistics, and how and why we use cookies.

Anonymous Statistics: Visitors to WoodTurner's Resource can access the site and browse it without disclosing any personally identifiable information. To monitor usage and improve the quality of our site, we use server logs and industry-standard site statistics software to count the number of users who visit the site, the number of views of particular pages, and determine user browser types, search terms used to reach the site, and IP addresses. None of this information is associated by us with any particular person -- it is aggregated to help us run the site and monitor performance.

Links to Other Sites: In various places, our site may contain links to other sites. We have no control over the privacy practices of external sites.

Your eMail Address and eMail from WoodTurner's Resource: When you register for an account at WoodTurner's Resource, you must provide a valid email address. This is to make sure that a real person is signing up, rather than a spambot or other non-human annoyance. Following your registration, an email is sent to you containing a web link which includes a “registration key”. To complete your registration and activate your account, you must click on this link, which returns you to the site and submits your registration key to the server.

Although we do keep your email address on file in our database, you will not be inundated with email from us unless you so choose. We never expose your email address “in the clear”, and we advise that you never post your email address in a forum message. Other than email from the administrator to advise you of problems with your account or other important issues, you can choose to not receive any email.

From time to time, you may receive an email from the site administrator or a moderator. This could be to discuss a message you’ve posted in the discussion forum, to resolve a problem with your account, to respond to some inquiry you’ve made, or to announce an important new site feature.

Member Profile Information: Registration requires that you use your real name and create a password, but you may optionally enter other information into your user profile such as your, location, occupation, hobbies, etc. This information can be viewed only by other registered members -- it is not exposed to spiders, crawlers, or visitors. Enter as much or as little information as you feel comfortable providing.

Cookies and Web Beacons: Like most other sites on the internet, we use “cookies”; small files stored on your hard drive by your browser. Cookies are intended to help a web site recognize a user's browser as a previous visitor and save and remember certain preferences that may have been set during a previous visit. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture your email address. In our case, we use cookies to store your encrypted username and password so that you don’t have to log on every time you visit, and to remember your active topics time span setting.

We also use third party advertisements to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).  This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”).  The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey).  DART uses “non personally identifiable information”.  It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.  You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx 

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program.  Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Protect Your Privacy: Don’t disclose personally identifiable information (yours or any one else’s) in discussion forum posts. Search engines crawl our site and email and postal addresses can be picked up and added to spam databases.