Privacy Policy
Code For Excel and Outlook Privacy Statement
Code For Excel and Outlook provides this privacy statement as a demonstration of our firm commitment to honoring your privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for all web sites owned and operated by Code For Excel and Outlook including, but not limited to, CodeForExcelandOutlook.com and CodeForExcelandOutlook.net.
This privacy policy sets out how Code For Excel and Outlook uses and protects any information that you give Code For Excel and Outlook when you use this website. Effective January 31, 2010.
Information Automatically Logged
At various times during your visit, the following information may be recorded about your visit:
- IP Address
- User Agent
- Referrer
- Length and number of visits
- Pages visited
- Files downloaded
- Time of visit
This information is used for various purposes including, but not limited to,
- Tracking page and download popularity
- Hit counting
- Blocking bad or fraudulent requests
- Making really cool metrics charts in Excel.
This website does not share, sell or rent any information it collects from site visitors.
Public Forums
At this time (January 2010), Code For Excel and Outlook does not offer a public forum (other than the comments section optionally provided in each blog article). Please remember that any information that is disclosed in public forums becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Registration
Use of the comments section in each article requires that the user first enter his or her name and email address. This information is only used to confirm identity. Code For Excel and Outlook will not sell or distribute the information provided during this process. It is the responsibility of the user to protect his information in a manner that is acceptable to the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. See Information Automatically Logged for information on what is collected about your visit. Cookies are also placed on your computer by third parties such as Google and E-junkie, in order to track affiliate commissions.
Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. Cookies also allow us to make money through affiliate sales, to help support further development of this website. (Otherwise we have to spend more time at our day jobs and less time creating site content.) A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the fact that you were here.
To view the cookies in your browser, do a search at your favorite search engine on "how to view cookies your-browser-name" where "your-browser-name" is the name of the browser you want to check. For example, to see cookies in FireFox, search for "how to view cookies FireFox" and follow the instructions.
Surveys, Polls & Contests
From time-to-time Code For Excel and Outlook requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and mailing address), and demographic information (such as age and preferences). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the services Code For Excel and Outlook offers and at times aggregate information that does NOT identify individual users may be publicly displayed.
Links
The Code For Excel and Outlook web sites contain links to other web sites that are not associated with Code For Excel and Outlook. These links are provided as a courtesy. Code For Excel and Outlook is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other web sites. We encourage all users, when leaving the Code For Excel and Outlook web sites, to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. The Code For Excel and Outlook Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by web sites owned and operated by Code For Excel and Outlook.
Newsletters and Mailing Lists
Code For Excel and Outlook may make available various mailing lists and newsletters pertaining to the services and operations of Code For Excel and Outlook. If a user wishes to subscribe to any of these options he will be required to submit contact information such as an email address. This information will be used for the sole purpose of sending the mailing to the user and will not be shared or sold. Note that all newsletters and mailing lists provided by Code For Excel and Outlook are "confirmed opt-in"-style lists.
Notification of Changes
Changes to the Code For Excel and Outlook Privacy Statement may be made at any time and without warning. Monitor this page for changes. A service such as Change Detection can help you identify when a page on the Internet has been changed.
