Non-Trivial.com Privacy Policy

Summary

This policy is designed to comply with the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) as well as with other privacy rules under consideration by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

• We will not obtain personally-identifying information about users when they visit our site, unless they choose to provide such information to us.
• We do not encourage users to volunteer such information, especially if they are under 13 years of age.
• Our site was not designed for children. Although it is not believed to be harmful to children, we do not expect it to have any appeal to children.
• We will not share personally-identifying information about users with others for marketing purposes.

Every time a user accesses our site to read a page, we (the site operators) have the ability to track

• The IP address of the machine accessing the page
• The time of access
• The particular page being read

An IP address consists of 4 numbers separated by periods (e.g. 145.45.68.123). This address identifies the computer used to connect the user to the backbone of the Internet. This computer may belong to a commercial company if the user accesses the Internet from work, or to an Internet service provider or ISP (like AOL or Southwestern Bell) if he or she dials up from home. A user can very well have a different IP address each time he or she visits our site.

In most cases, we have the ability to translate the IP address to a domain name, which may or may not provide limited information about the computer's location. Examples of domain names are gateway2.bigcompany.com (a US company), dialup23.serviceprovider.net (a US ISP) or toronto10.company.ca (a Canadian company).

As a general rule, the IP address or domain name does not identify an individual user . It does not reveal the physical location of a user either.

The last part of a domain name (.com,.org,.edu,.ca,.uk,.sg etc.) may reveal whether the computer is located in the US or in another country. When a computer is located in the US, the extension reveals whether it belongs to a commercial company, an educational institution, a non-profit or a government organization.

A user reveals the same information when he or she fills out a feedback form. We normally have no way of replying to feedback sent to us using an on-line form, since the use of a form does not identify the user to us .

When a user provides feedback through E-mail instead of an on-line form, we normally obtain the E-mail address of that user (e.g. john_smith@somecompany.com) in the reply field of the E-mail. This allows us to reply to the E-mail if we choose to do so.

In general, the E-mail address does identify the sender uniquely, since each address belongs to exactly one person. However, we do not normally have a way to trace the E-mail address back to a specific person, unless the E-mail address would happen to be listed in some public E-mail directory.

As a rule, we do not try to identify senders of E-mails without their explicit permission. However, we suggest that any user who prefers to remain completely anonymous, not send E-mail to us.

A user may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example a name and street address, in an electronic mail message containing a compliment or complaint. This would be a voluntary disclosure by a user.

We may or may not store this information, depending on whether we expect to contact that user in the future.

As a general rule, we do not encourage the disclosure of personally-identifying information by users.

In the unlikely event that a user of our site would be under 13 years of age (this site is not designed for children and is not expected to appeal to children), we specifically request that such information NOT be sent to us!

The Non-Trivial Web site may decide to use banner advertising. It may also use the services of other companies to generate usage statistics or perform general maintenance of our site.

These services may imply that every time a user reads one of our pages, the IP address (see above) of that user is electronically passed on to the other company. This mechanism can be used to maintain a count of unique page views to our site, so we get appropriate credit for advertising etc.

Non-Trivial.com may decide to use "cookies" to keep up with individual users as they navigate through our site.

Cookies are little bits of information a Web site like ours can send to a user's browser. The browser stores that information temporarily on the user's computer. We only have the ability to interrogate the browser about cookies we previously sent ourselves. This may help us distinguish one of our users from another, but does not allow us to identify that user.

We do not have the ability to read any other information from a user's computer. We cannot read user files, or cookies sent by other Web sites. We do not have the capability of determining what other sites a user may have visited.

Users who are still not comfortable with the use of cookies can disable the feature by changing the settings on their browser.