Our Privacy Policy
Internet privacy is an important
issue. We've tried to cover the bases in plain language.
Don't hesitate to email us with your questions.
Our Simple Privacy Policy
Privacy is an important issue on the Internet. We take your privacy seriously.
We do not sell any of your personal information
to anyone. Period.
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We do not record any information about your reading habits or attempt to obtain any personal information other than what you provide if you subscribe.
The Only Exception
We comply with all U.S. laws and will make information available to the courts if
required to do so.
Cookies
We sometimes use cookies to enable features on Vivid Light Photography, as does virtually every
site on the Web. An example of the kind of thing we might use a cookie for:
We add a new feature to the site. To tell you about it we open a separate window the next time you visit to tell you about it. The cookie records that you've seen it so that we don't show it to you more than once. Some ads do the same thing, so you never see that ad more than once or twice in a single day. We record no personal information in our cookies. What's a cookie?
What's a Cookie and why do I Care?
Actually most people don't care, but for the curious few a cookie is a small file
that a Web site stores on your hard drive when you visit that site. Only the
site that created a cookie can read that cookie.
Cookies are usually only a couple of bytes so they don't take up much room on your hard drive. Different Web sites use cookies for different reasons. Most sites use cookies to make sure they're not showing you something you've already seen before, as in our example above. Some use cookies to keep track of your interests or preferences. Having the info on your local machine just helps the Web site to run smoother and faster.
What if I Don't want a Cookie on My Machine?
You can turn them off. Every web browser gives you the option of turning
off cookies. But so many Web sites rely on them that it's really not practical
to do so.
Will Cookies fill up My Hard Drive?
Nope. Cookies are very small files. We're on the Web all day so our machines
pick
up a lot of cookies. As I write this there are 571 of them in a special
directory where Windows keeps it's cookies and all of them together take up less
space than a single word processor file. Cookies are also deleted if they're not
used for a while. All cookies are created with an expiration date. Most expire
in a few days to a few months and it's rare for a cookie to last more than a
year.
If you still have any questions your can reach us at webmaster@vividlight.com.