Our
Privacy Policies are pretty simple. There is no data collected
whatsoever in the information pages of the site (articles and so forth).
When you use our Forum, we place a cookie on your
machine that keeps track of your session at the forum. When you log
in, there is a checkbox to save the login information as a cookie. The
forum will not be as functional for you if you do not do this. This is
how the forum software is able to determine what threads (or topics) you
have read and what threads are new. We ourselves, the staff of
Computer Haven, do nothing at all with these cookies. In addition if
you write a long post or reply, without the cookie tracking your session,
after you submit the post or reply, you could get an error message saying
that your session had timed out - and in such a case, you would lose
everything you have just typed.
When you register at the forum, you give us your email
address. We then send a confirmation link to that address, and you
must click on that to complete your registration. This serves two
purposes. It allows us to verify who you are, and keeps spammer robots
from being able to post to the forum. This helps keep the forum free
of advertising and spam posts. It also allows the forum software to
send you notifications of when an answer has been posted to your question.
We do nothing at all with your email address, and it
is not visible to anyone on the web, including bots that go around trolling
for email addresses.
In your forum profile there are a couple of choices
you can make regarding letting other forum members contact you by PM
(Private Message) or Email. Both of these are done by the forum
software without any disclosure to the sender of your email address.
The email you might receive would show as coming from the forum. Be
aware though, that if you answer that email directly, your email
address then shows up in your reply to the sender. The
alternative would be to come to the forum and locate the member who emailed
you and email them back using the email button below their name on any of
their posts, or in the member directory.
The Private Messages have no address outside of the
forum software at all, you each have an inbox where these messages are sent
and stored. They are protected by your login credentials.