Hello,

Welcome to the DiscussNY.com Privacy Policy Page.

The privacy of our visitors to DiscussNY.com is important to us. 

At DiscussNY.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is 
important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive
and collect when you use visit DiscussNY.com, and how we safeguard your 
information.  We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.
The information in the log files include  your IP (internet protocol) address, 
your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser 
you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you
visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. 

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when 
you visit our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your 
visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on DiscussNY.com to support our site.  
Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons 
when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such 
as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP 
address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, 
whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting 
purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example)
or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking
 ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party 
cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such 
as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to 
interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the 
inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or 
accounts.

DiscussNY.com collects the e-mail addresses of those who make postings to our
forums and information volunteered by members in their member profile.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web
page, used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for
each individual visitor, and used to notify members about updates to the site.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please
let us know by updating your options using your control panel by visiting us 
at http://www.discussny.com/usercp.php.

With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types
of sensitive information such as a paypal donation, we redirect visitors 
to a secure server and will notify visitors through a secure web page.

Thank you,
DiscussNY.com