As part of having google adsense show ads on my blog, I am required to have a privacy policy regarding how they collect and store information. Below is the template they give for bloggers; which, since it’s theirs, should just about cover everything.
As for me personally, do I give a little yelp of joy every time someone subscribes to my blog? Yup. I get a little scary excited every time someone wants to follow along with me. Would I ever take that email address and sell it or do something else with it(honestly, I don’t even know what you would do with them)? NO! Not ever. Seriously, no. I hate spam as much as you do. Plus, I want you to stick around and make cookies with me. So I promise never to do anything with your personal info besides send you the new post updates you subscribed to. You can unsubscribe to them at the bottom of the emails you are sent from my blog. But please don’t. I would miss you.
Ok, that being said here’s google’s much more sophisticated way of phrasing it:
At eatknitanddiy.com, I recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit eatknitanddiy.com, and how we safeguard your information. I never sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, I collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
I also use third party advertisements on eatknitanddiy.com to support my site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.