Privacy Stuff…
January 6th, 2012
My Privacy Policy
I personally make no effort to collect any information about you, and from this Web site I do not force feed you cookies, tracking bugs or any other mechanism that would let me determine who you are. Frankly I am not the least bit interested in who you are.
My ISP’s Privacy Policy
This site is hosted by an ISP, and that ISP offers me information about people who visit my Web site, therefore I conclude that they are in fact using mechanisms to determine some information about you. Mostly this information is demographic, and involves where and how people access the site. I rarely if ever look at it, and would be just as happy if they didn’t provide it. But they do and that means they are likely collecting some information about you. You have been warned.
About Analysis
Topics, or rather, the random collection of data on this Web site are based on my professional insights plus mindless conjecture, idle gossip, and baseless Web surfing in combination with senseless cutting and pasting.
I am a professional. Please do not try analysis at home. You may cite things you read on the site, but it would not be wise to cite anything on you find on this site as a fact. After all analysis is an opinion. Again, you have been warned.
My mother told me if I cannot say something nice, don’t say anything at all, and while generally this is good advice, analysts, like nature as Francois Rabelais noted “abhors a vacuum.” Therefore I have to develop, hold and express an opinion even if: 1) you don’t agree with it; and 2) you don’t like it. It is not personal, it is an opinion.
When I am wrong, or there is new evidence that convinces me to change my opinion I usually let people know, but I may leave archived postings unchanged to show how my opinion has evolved.
Respecting Others Intellectual Property
In preparing this Web site I have tried to respect the intellectual property, including trademarks and copyrights of others. Where I cite information from other Web sites, I try to only use a reasonable fair use quote, and provide a pointer to the original work.
With the exception of the image of the Pulibros, all other images are licensed from Getty Images for use on this site.
The names of companies, products, and other entities mentioned in this site are likely either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer
With all this in mind, I reiterate that I mean no ill will from anything on this Web site to any living or dead entity or being, and I assume no responsibility for errors, ommissions, libel, slander, or for any other damages, either real or imagined.
Malicious Links
Although I have tested the links from this Web site to other sites on the Internet, you should not follow any links unless you have taken the appropriate security and safety measures, such as running current antivirus and spyware detection and removal software, and are not running as a local administrator or your computer. Some links may be broken, or no longer point to the same location as they did when I tested them, therefore I remind you when you click on a link you assume the risk for doing so.
Respecting My Intellectual Property
None of the information on this Web site which I have authored is worth copyrighting, although to some limited extent, the very act of publishing it likely created some rights. None-the-less, I offer it with no rights reserved. Nada. Zip. Zippo. Frankly, the I couldn’t care less. I must also point out and advise readers that copying, storing, or reproducing any data from this site by any means either manual or electronic, would only waste precious resources.
However images on this site licensed from Getty Images are copyrighted by either Getty Images or the photographer, and you must respect those copyrights.
No Legal Advice
Although I am a graduate of Law School, and hold a Juris Doctor degree, I am not licensed to practice law in the state of Washington or any other state, province or country. You should not interprete anything on this site as providing legal advice. You should not act or rely on anything you read on this site.
PETA Disclaimer
No animals—especially Pulik’were harmed in the making of this Web site.
FDA Disclaimer
This Web site was created in a facility that processes and quite frankly, enjoys peanuts.
