February 4, 2012

Privacy Policy

This policy describes the ways we collect, store, use and protect your personal information. We hate spam and will never send you insolated spam. You accepted this policy when you contact us through our form and blog. We may amend this policy at any time by posting a revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. In addition, if the revised version includes a substantial change, we will provide you with 30 days’ prior notice by posting notice of the change on our blog. We last modified this Policy on July 26, 2009.

How We Collect Information About You

When you visit the Report-Online-Scams, we collect your IP address and standard web log information, such as your browser type and the pages you accessed on our website.

If you contact us, we collect the following types of information from you:

  1. Contact information – your name,and email.
  2. Financial information – we will NEVER ask you for banking information.

When you are using our blog service, we collect information about you, and we may collect information about your computer or other access device for fraud prevention purposes.

How We Use Cookies

When you access our website, we, or companies we hire to track how our website is used, may place small data files called “cookies” on your computer.

We send a “session cookie” to your computer when you log in to your account. This type of cookie helps us to recognize you if you visit multiple pages on our site during the same session, so that we don’t need to ask you for your password on each page. This is only effective on our blog login, we do not currently offer a username or password for the site. Once you log out or close your browser, this cookie expires and no longer has any effect.

We also use longer-lasting cookies for other purposes such as to display your e-mail address on our sign-in form, so that you don’t need to retype the e-mail address each time you log in to your blog account.

We encode our cookies so that only we can interpret the information stored in them. You are free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may interfere with your use of our website.