Privacy Notice
Effective 4 April 2009
Metamodern.com will make this privacy notice easy to find by making it available on the homepage and on every page where personally identifiable information may be requested. It will be updated to describe policies for new forms of information collected as these become applicable.
Information collected:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Metamodern.com website. At present, this consists of information entered when making comments. The information requested comprises, in its entirety, your name, email address, website url, and the comment itself. None of these is verified, hence providing correct personal information is purely voluntary.
In addition, data transmitted by your browser is logged by our ISP (this is standard practice for websites), and data is collected by other entities through code placed on our pages. At present, these are:
- StatCounter
- Google Adsense
- [others will be listed here when applicable]
The links in the list above reference the applicable corporate privacy policies. Below are privacy policies and information recommended by Google, which are hereby adopted by Metamodern.com.
How your information will be used:
Your name, optional website url, and comment (if accepted) will be visible to other readers of Metamodern.com, and hence publicly accessible. Other information that you provide will not be shared with outside parties.
Your email address may be used for occasional messages from us and in connection with the subject matter covered by Metamodern.com. There is no plan at present to compile a regular email list, and if one is created, an easy way to opt out will be provided. Email addresses will not be used for any other purpose and will not be shared with outside parties.
Non-identifying and aggregate information may be used to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, an advertiser may be told that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out a questionnaire form. Nothing would be disclosed that could be used to identify those individuals.
Data security:
Your data will be handled with the standard of care of a reasonably security-aware webmaster working with a professional ISP. Any collection of more sensitive information in the future would be reason for reviewing data security.
If you have questions or corrections:
If you have questions about this policy, or would like to correct information we have, please contact the email address on
Further policies and information regarding this site,
as recommended by Google:
[This] privacy policy [hereby includes] the following information about Google and the DoubleClick DART cookie:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on [this] site.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to [you] based on their visit to [this site] and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
And, from the Network Advertising Initiative, as recommended by Google, is additional information:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies [for example, to opt out], click here.
