This document was last updated on 2/23/10.

General

Tombraiders.net respects your right to privacy. The following outlines the privacy policy for this site, as well as for its sister sites, SpaceColonyFans.net and BrickRaiders.net. If you have any questions, please feel free to email () or contact me through my web form.

Personal Email & Opt-In Blog Notifications

There are no password-restricted areas on my sites and, unless you contact me, I have no way of obtaining your email address or other personal information.

When you sign up for my blog feed or send me a message by email or through my contact form, I do save your name (if you have provided it) and email address. I never, under any circumstances, rent, sell or share this information with any outside parties. Subscribing to my feed or sending me a personal message will not cause you to receive any "spam"/junk email.

The only exception to this rule is in the case of contests, when I may have to share the winners' information with the company providing or shipping the prizes.

If you have subscribed to blog updates and would like to unsubscribe, please do so through the feed provider (e.g., FeedBurner, Google Friend Connect, etc.) or send me a request by email and you will be removed from the list immediately.

Log Files & Statistics

When you visit tombraiders.net, spacecolonyfans.net or brickraiders.net, our web server records information about your visit, including your IP (Internet Protocol) address, web browser type, operating system and the last page you visited before tombraiders.net. This site also uses Google Analytics to track visitor statistics. This information is recorded in log files and used to analyze trends (e.g., which search engines and keywords were used to find this site, which pages are most popular, etc.), administer the site (e.g., find broken links), track users' movement through the site, and gather broad demographic information (e.g., users' country of origin). None of this information is linked to personally identifiable information or shared with any outside parties.

Advertising & Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data (in the form of a small text file) stored on a computer user's hard drive and containing information about the user. Cookies are used to personalize the information delivered to your web browser when you visit a particular web site. For example, some sites ask you to log in then use cookies to "recognize" you on subsequent visits. Some sites track your browsing preferences so they can display advertising that matches your interests, etc.

For more general information about cookies and how they work, please visit Cookie Central.

My sites do not use cookies. However, the advertisements displayed on my pages do use cookies to track which ads a user clicks and to identify tombraiders.net, spacecolonyfans.net or brickraiders.net as the site responsible for "click-throughs" to an advertiser's site. I do not have access to or control over the cookies delivered when an ad is displayed or when a user visits an advertiser's site. Users are welcome to browse my sites with cookies disabled or to reject specific cookies if they choose. Check your web browser's help files for information on changing your privacy/cookie settings.

For specific information about the policies and practices of our ad server and affiliate programs, please visit the following sites:

     Amazon.com - www.amazon.com (privacy notice)
     LinkShare - http://www.linkshare.com/home/privacy.shtml
     Google AdSense - http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Please note that all of these companies represent numerous individual advertisers. If you have questions about specific advertisers' policies, please visit their individual sites.

If you are a webmaster interested in joining any of these programs, feel free to contact me for more information.

Links

Tombraiders.net, spacecolonyfans.net and brickraiders.net contain links to other web sites, including other fan sites as well as the game developers' sites and sites belonging to advertisers. I am not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices of these sites. I encourage users to be aware when they leave my site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security & Donating to tombraiders.net

Information on how to help support this site appears here. This includes links to PayPal and Amazon Payments, through which visitors can donate money. Both PayPal and Amazon Payments use secure servers with the highest level of encryption available. PayPal's Security Center and Privacy Policy provide more details about their service. For information about Amazon Payments, please visit the Amazon Payments home page and follow the Privacy and Security links at the bottom of the page.

Again, if you have any question about this site or its security and privacy policy, please don't hesitate to contact me. —Stella

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POLICY UPDATES: As of May 2008, Google also serves advertisements for various third party vendors. For details, including links to each advertising company's site, where you can find their particular policies, please visit this page on the Google Adsense site. Some of these advertisers do use cookies to track visitor data. As always, you are welcome to disable cookies while browsing this site. This will not affect the content other than the advertising.

As for March 2009, Google has implemented the DoubleClick DART cookie, which enables it to display ads to users based on their visit to this site, as well as other sites on the Internet. For more information on how this works and how to opt out of the use of the DART cookie, please see DoubleClick's Cookie FAQ and the Google ad and content network privacy policy.