We respect your privacy

We respect the privacy of our customers, newsletter subscribers, those who answer our surveys, and those who fill out our questionnaires. It is our policy:

  • To respect the purpose for which our site visitors gave us information.
  • Not to sell or rent our lists to third parties for e-mail marketing. Of course, we may advertise in our email publications.
  • To send our periodicals only to those who request them. Sometimes people subscribe for their friends, and while we cannot prevent that, we offer information to these subscribers how to easily unsubscribe if requested.
  • To keep our subscription lists as clean as possible to prevent obsolete e-mails to take unnecessary bandwidth.

What other information does Overflow collect and how is it used?

Cookies

Overflow uses cookies to store and track your preferences to provide you with a more personalized user experience. A cookie is a message that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Most Internet sites use cookies. You can set your browser preferences to reject all cookies but then you will not be able to participate in most customized services, and you may be required to repeatedly log in to participate in various services, promotions, or product offerings. Cookies make your experience easier by saving your preferences and passwords.

We also use cookies that contain no personal information at all. These cookies, help us estimate our audience size, determine which areas of Overflow sites are the most popular, and serve targeted advertising.

Some parts of Overflow site use cookies to collect information about visitors’ use of the Web site and to facilitate return visits. Information collected about user activity may be done in partnership using a 3rd party tracking tool. The information collected from cookies is tracked to enhance security and to improve the functionality of the Web site by avoiding duplicate data entry, facilitating navigation, and increasing the relevance of content. Cookies on the site may collect the following information: a unique identifier, user preferences and profile information used to personalize the content that is shown, and membership information to access Overflow’s services. Some cookies used by Overflow may remain on the user’s computer after they leave the Web site.

Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. Keep in mind that if you refuse cookies, it is possible that some portions of Overflow sites may not function exactly as intended.

IP Address

Overflow may also collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration or to report information in aggregate form to our advertisers (e.g. how many visitors logged in to a Overflow site). An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically when you use the Internet. When you visit a particular Overflow web page, our servers log your IP address. Your IP address is not linked to anything personally identifiable.

Questions, comments, or suggestions?

Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding our website privacy policy.