Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy is simple:

1. We will never give any personal information you provide us to any external party without explicit permission. No partners, no sales lists, no nothing. Your identity is yours, and it isn't our place to sell or otherwise profit from it.

2. We minimize all user tracking on the Securosis site. We do not use any external analytics tool that could allow a third party to track your behavior, except Feedburner (which we're moving away from) -- see below.

3. While we have a Feedburner feed, it's a leftover from our old site, and before they were acquired by Google. All the RSS feeds on our site connect directly to us, but we don't want to break updates for people using those feeds. We encourage you to update to the non-Feedburner feed -- our blog feed is http://securosis.com/feeds/blog and our research library feed is http://securosis.com/feeds/research.

4. If we refer to any comment or contribution you make to the site, we will only refer to the name you list as your display name/handle unless you request otherwise. Even if we have your real name or email, we will only use your display name.

5. We may track mass emails, but that's only because we can't avoid it with the systems we use, and as with our internal stats, the information is never provided to any external party.

6. We may provide aggregate numbers to external parties. By "aggregate numbers", we mean raw subscription counts. No names, locations, IP addresses, or anything else.

7. We do not require registration to participate in the free areas of the site. If you can figure out a way to pay us anonymously, we won't even track you in the paid areas. Cash under our doors does not count as anonymous payment, since it freaks out our wives and makes our accountants a bit squeamish -- if you start leaving stuff in our homes, we will track you down.

8. Like every other website, we have logs. If that worries you, feel free to visit us using an anonymization service. We really don't want to track you as an individual, but visit counts are helpful to us. Not that we check them often; we once lost our stats for 3-4 months and didn't even notice.

9. In the few areas where we collect personal information, we secure it as best we can. Keep in mind that this site is currently hosted on a shared server, so there are limits to what we can do. If this is a problem, we recommend you set up a dummy account on Hotmail/Yahoo, and give us fake information. Seriously, that's what we do when we don't trust a site.