Privacy
Our Policy on Your Privacy
| A sincere warning (but don’t get paranoid)!
Once you’re on the internet, your privacy goose is cooked. Sure, all the above crowds tell you the exact opposite, but their tales are simply urban myths. Nothing is secret on the internet, nothing is private. Who tells you differently is either stupid, or a crook. Possibly both. One wireless laptop and one cellphone are sufficient for any clever villain to empty my bank account and yours – within minutes. And if the enterprising crook works on for another fifteen minutes, he doesn’t only own our money but also our identities. And that’s just criminals, who generally don’t have access to the hardware, the digital infrastructure and the limitless man-hours that our governments have. There is very little that our “leaders” don’t know about you and me, and there’s even less that Uncle Sam doesn’t know – wherever we live. Human beings are primitive – fond of magical thinking, protective rituals and hexes. One of those is the “privacy statement” that pretty soon all webmasters will be legally obliged to have on their sites. I join these rituals enthusiastically – as an internet marketer I can’t, like, afford to have Google kick my sites off their search engines on account of me not helping them pull the wool over people’s eyes… and neither can “Not the Clan Fergus(s)on Society”. So here is, specifically to pacify Google and all our governments, our privacy statement. Nothing of it is untrue – but neither does it cover any of the real issues. |
If I were allowed to be honest, I’d say: “Privacy? On the web??!! You don’t have any”. But honesty is not allowed, not if you want to stay on the right side of webhosts, search engines, politically correct internet organisations, your own national government and, regardless of whether you live in the States or not, Uncle Sam. The Privacy Statement
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
“Not the Clan Fergus(s)on Society” may or may not decide to post advertisements on this site. If we do, Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, will use cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, “Not the Clan Fergus(s)on Society” has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.
Collection of Personal InformationWhen visiting “Not the Clan Fergus(s)on Society”, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Links to third party Websites
We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own. Changes to this Privacy Statement
The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.
If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of “Not the Clan Fergus(s)on Society”, you may contact us at office@verduijn.ws or, even easier, via the contact form on our About us page.
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Orange bordered on account of my Dutch birth and proudly flying the Saltire in honor of our Scottish roots, I make this website for all Fergussons - regardless of name, spelling or origins. It's dedicated to all Scots and all Scottish descendants around the world, meaning that in fact it's dedicated to ourselves!
