Publication Date: October 28, 2000 RottweilerChat.com respects your privacy. That's why we have created this Privacy Statement to explain how and why we collect certain information online, and how we use that information. This statement also explains how you can prevent collection of certain information about yourself, if you choose. Please take a few moments to read our Privacy Statement. This statement applies to information we collect from visitors to the RottweilerChat Forums Web site. Right to Change Policy We reserve the right to change this statement. If we make any material change to this statement, we will change the date at the top of this statement to reflect the effective date of the change. When you visit our site, we encourage you to check the date of this Privacy Statement to ensure you are aware of any updates. However, regardless of how this Privacy Statement may change, RottweilerChat.com will not collect or maintain your private and personally identifiable information without your consent. Further, if you consent to give us your personal information, we will keep it confidential and will not sell, license or disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent, unless we are compelled to do so under the law or to comply with a court order. Registration on Our Site RottweilerChat.com Forums requires users who want to participate in the forum message boards to register. In order to register, you must provide us with a username (which does not have to be your real name), and a valid e-mail address. This allows us to protect our community from abusive postings and provides a verifiable point of contact should legal questions arise. When you register, you have the option of providing some additional information such as occupation, interests, and homepage URL. This optional information is made available to other forum users to foster a sense of community. If you have any concerns about providing this information, simply leave the fields blank and your registration will still be processed. E-mail At the time of the writing of this privacy statement the decision was made to turn off the e-mail feature of this software. If this feature were enabled your e-mail address would be available to any person who visits our forum. We will reconsider this decision if members indicate they would like to have this feature. If at any time, RottweilerChat.com enables this feature you have the ability to keep your e-mail address hidden from other users by selecting that option within your user profile. Cookies RottweilerChat.com forums uses browser cookies to facilitate your experience. These cookies are small sections of code that our server sends to your browser, which it can then store on your hard drive. If you choose to accept these cookies, they enable us to recognize that your browser has previously visited and used our site. An example of the customization allowed by the use of such cookies is to retain your username and password on our site so you don't have to re-enter them each time you visit. These cookies do not collect, store or maintain your private, personally identifiable information. You do not have to accept these cookies to visit or use the RottweilerChat.com forums site, and you can choose to refuse our cookie, delete our cookie from your hard drive or turn off the RottweilerChat.com forum cookie at any time by updating your user profile preferences. Postings on Message Boards It is important for you to remain aware that when you provide personal information (e.g., last name, address, phone number) in a posting that information is available to any other person or user having access and use of RottweilerChat.com Forums, and may be used by someone in a manner unintended by you. For that reason, we discourage you from offering any personally identifying information within a posting to any message board. Thank You admin@RottweilerChat.com