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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Important Privacy Statement Information


Flippinmental Privacy Statement


Scope

Flippinmental maintains this web site as service to its existing and potential members. The following is the privacy policy regarding this site.

The Collection and Use of Information

Flippinmental collects information from you under the following two circumstances:
• Information Collected Automatically - Some information is collected from you automatically when you view Flippinmental pages and download information. This may include your Internet Protocol address assigned by your Internet Service Provider, domain name and the type of browser and operating system you used, the date and time you accessed Flippinmental's site, the pages you requested and visited, and the site you linked from to reach Flippinmental. Flippinmental uses this type of information to statistically measure site traffic and to improve the web site. The information is not reviewed on an individual basis but is aggregated with other users for comparison purposes.
• Information Voluntarily Submitted - Additional information may be collected from you if you opt-in or voluntarily provide it in order to fulfil a request on-line about our group meetings and related services.

Flippinmental uses the information you voluntarily provide to fulfil a service request, or in the case of a volunteer or artist, as a means to facilitate contact and liaison with you to fulfil a specific project.

Your request for a service will determine the information we may or may not collect.

Calling the Flippinmental Office Number
If you chose to find out more about Flippinmental, for example, reaching us (Sheffield, England) on 0114 2646392, or mobile: 07866753747, as shown on every page on our website; then the only other information we obtain is related to your website navigation (cookies) described in the next section. We do not retain your number, unless you wish to become a member who wishes to be updated with regards to meetings or other activities.

Emailing Flippinmental
If you chose to contact Flippinmental via email to find out more about our activities, and you explicitly express an interest to ‘opt-in’ to be part of a mailing list, then, and only under these circumstances will Flippinmental retain your email and contact you to fulfil the service request. The only other information we obtain is related to your website navigation (cookies) described in the next section.


Cookies
Flippinmental only deploys "cookies" through “Add Free Stats” to collect non identifiable visitor information from our website. This includes: how you found our website (via search engines or hyperlink etc.), the country of your ISP, the language you use , the pages visited and whether you used one of our links to exit our site. We use this information to improve the design of our website and gauge the effectiveness of the information we provide. We do not make these results public. If you'd like to see a DEMO of the type of information Add Free Stats provide (you can see it here)

Hyperlinks
Flippinmental has links to other web sites. When you click on these links to access these other sites, Flippinmental cannot control their use of cookies and this privacy policy will not apply.
Click here to view the Flippinmental Linking Policy.

If you choose to do so, you can configure your browser to notify you when a new cookie is received. You can also prevent your browser from accepting any new cookies, view and delete existing cookies or disable cookies altogether. Click here to link to directions on how to do this.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Flippinmental does not share any of the information freely submitted by its members, nor does it share non identifiable website traffic information with third parties .

Changes to this Privacy Policy
Flippinmental may amend this policy from time to time, according to legal and service changes. Flippinmental will prominently display on this website any substantial change in the way we gather and use the personal information you have freely supplied us.

Directions for Controlling Cookies:
(This information is provided "as is" (see terms of use)

Using Internet Explorer to Control Which Cookies You Accept:

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab,
4. Click Internet, then Custom Level.
5. Scroll down to Cookies and choose one of the two options.
If you are using Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the Advanced tab,
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.
In Internet Explorer 3.0, you can choose View, Options, Advanced and click on the button that says Warn Before Accepting "Cookies."

Using Internet Explorer to View or Delete Cookies You Have Accepted:

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options.
3. Under the tab General (the default tab)click
4. Settings, then
5. View Files.
6. To delete a cookie, highlight it and delete it.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options.
3. Under the tab General (the default tab)click
4. Settings, then
5. View Files.
6. To delete a cookie, highlight it and delete it.
If you are using Internet Explorer 3.0
1. Choose View, then
2. Options, then
3. Advanced, then
4. View Files.
5. To delete a cookie, highlight it and delete it.
Using Netscape to Control Cookies: Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

If you are using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
1. Select "Edit | Preferences..." from the main menu.
2. Select "Advanced"
o To enable cookies: Select "Accept all cookies" or "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server"
o To disable cookies: Select "Disable cookie"
o To get a prompt: Check "Warn me before accepting a cookie" and select "Accept all cookies" or "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server"
3. Click "OK"
4. To delete cookies, locate the file called cookie.txt on your computer at c:program filesnetscapeusersdefault and delete it.

If you are using Navigator 3.x:
1. Select "Options | Network Preferences..." from the main menu.
2. Change to the "Protocols" tab.
3. Navigator 3.x does not have an option to completely disable accepting cookies. To get a prompt: Check "Accepting a Cookie" under "Show an Alert Before"
4. Click "OK"