Sunday, May 01, 2005

Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. All sites owned or operated by Olive Tree Publishing, including Chicken Chat, follow the same privacy protection policies
and we will never knowingly infringe on those policies.

In general we collect no personal information from you except in a few cases. Authors who submit articles to us must provide a valid email address (or snail mail address) and name so that we (or others with similar interests) may contact them. Whatever personal information we collect privately is never shared with others. Some personal information, such as a contact name and email for authors or volunteer transcribers, may be visible on our website.

Those visitors wishing to subscribe to our newsletters must provide a valid email address and limited personal information to a third-party server. We have no control over third-party servers but we do choose them carefully with your protection in mind. Please be sure that you check their privacy policies carefully to ensure that you are confident in their protection policies.

Your IP address is collected by the servers on which our sites reside. It is used for maintenance of the sites, to help us provide you with a better experience when visiting our sites and to gain a better understanding of how our sites can best help you the visitor.

Cookies may be placed on your computer by companies whose ads we run. We do not personally place cookies on your computer. Companies whose ads we run have informed us that cookies placed by them are for tracking purposes and statistical analysis only.