Scaramouche's Privacy Policy                                    12-Feb-08

1) We are not in the mailing list business and don't sell, give away or convey by any means, any personal or corporate information to anybody.

As any fool can plainly see, this should convince you that we're strongly committed to your information security -- especially minors'.

About records of your contact information: we will retain your e-mail and snail-mail address long enough to assure that business transactions and correspondence threads are done to your satisfaction. When you appear to be satisfied, we drop this information from our records.

If we've dropped your contact information before everything is OK, please excuse us.

At any time, you may later review or update your personally identifiable information that we may collect online and maintain by writing to scarahf@cs.com. To protect the security and confidentiality of your information, we will only respond to such requests when received from the originalsubmitter's email account.

2) Any information about you that we accumulate will be regarded as confidential. It will not be released except in accordance with your direction or compelling application of law.

3) Be aware that our business associates and partners may retain your contact information until a current message thread is complete. It would help if you sign off on the thread.

4) No cookies. We don't set them. But if you are referred to a location off our site, an associate or partner might send a cookie to your computer.

We have recently discovered that our web host does indeed generate a file and implants it in your computer. These files are not cookies. They contain portions information about our website so that if you re-visit our site, load time is decreased. These files do not compile information about you or report your behaviour.

Windows retains these files in C:\WINDOWS\Temporary Internet Files. We don't know about other operating systems, but they wind up somewhere on your hard drive.

If these files are of concern, we apologize for them. You can delete them without affecting your computer's operation; except that the next time you visit our site, the loading will take a few seconds longer. And the darn file will be back again.

The directory where these are kept is the same one where cookies are stored. After you do a lot of surfing, this directory will collect thousands of small files. When the number of files in this directory exceeds 500, your system may begin to do unpredictable, quirky things. You should routinely delete all files in this directory. This also helps you protect your privacy; the cookies in this directory won't hang around and report your online behaviour to their originating entity.

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5) Junk e-mail and snailmail we receive will be discarded without reading. If you receive unsolicited e-mail from Scaramouche, it is probably bogus. Don't open it; dump it.

6) Scaramouche: Hacker/Factotum participates in the Amazon.com affiliate program, which credits Scaramouche a small amount for some  purchases you make with Amazon.com after linking through the Scaramouche: Hacker/Factotum site. Scaramouche: Hacker/Factotum only receives aggregate information from Amazon, such as the number and total of referrals generated. The personally identifiable information you decide to provide Amazon.com is controlled separately by Amazon.com's own privacy and security policies, which can be further evaluated at:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/468496/107-2388180-9422133

The same is true for other online merchants indicated by the "hand out" logo throughout Scaramouche's Store with variations mutatis mutandis.

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