Privacy Policy The privacy of our visitors to lipomaboard.com is important to us. At lipomaboard.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 visit lipomaboard.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell any kind of personal information to third parties or use this data for any illegal activities. 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 Time Warner), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited my site and which pages you visit. Cookies and Web Beacons We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit this site. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit this website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Los Angeles restaurants to Los Angeles residents, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing medical ads to someone who frequents health sites). You can choose 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 my site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. Google AdSense The Google's AdSense program uses the DoubleClick DART cookie. Google's use of the DART cookie enables this site to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Email Addresses Should you contact us or subscribe to any of my information services via email, we will never sell or give away your email address. Additional Common Privacy Policy For phpBB This policy explains in detail how "Lipoma Board" along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter "we", "us", "our", "Lipoma Board", "http://www.lipomaboard.com") and phpBB (hereinafter "they", "them", "their", "phpBB software", "www.phpbb.com", "phpBB Group", "phpBB Teams") use any information collected during any session of usage by you hereinafter "your information"). Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing "Lipoma Board" will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer's web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter "user-id") and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter "session-id"), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within "Lipoma Board" and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience. We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing "Lipoma Board", though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter "anonymous posts"), registering on "Lipoma Board" (hereinafter "your account") and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter "your posts"). Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter "your user name"), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter "your password") and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter "your e-mail"). Your information for your account at "Lipoma Board" is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your e-mail address required by "Lipoma Board" during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of "Lipoma Board". In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software. Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at "Lipoma Board", so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with "Lipoma Board", phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the "I forgot my password" feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.