At Visual Pinball Forums (VPForums.com), we are committed to protecting your privacy. With the sole exception of an ISP email address, we do not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted. Although an ISP email address is required for validation purposes, it will never be shared with any third party. In fact, we do not share any personal information with any member or third parties.

We collect and store the following information about you: the IP address or name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are coming from an America Online account); the date and time you access our site; the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site; and your Operating System and Browser. We use the information to measure the number of members to the sections of our site, which, in turn, helps us make our site more useful. The browser information is used to develop and code pages so most people will be able to view the site correctly.

The Profile Settings of your account in the Forum program let you decide how much information you wish to share with the VPForums.com community. Any additional information you provide in this section is optional and remains personal and confidential, including your email address, date of birth, homepage link, geographical location, permission to receive Private Messages, use of Cookies and your visibility on the Forums. As a member of VPForums.com, you may access, update and modify your Profile at any time via the Control Panel button available from any Forum page. If you have any difficulty making changes to your Profile or un-subscribing from any notifications, please contact our Administration.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and member name. You should notify a VPForums.com Administrator of any known or suspected unauthorized use of your account, or of any known or suspected breach of security.

Cookies

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. VPForums.com uses cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. In no case are cookies used to track down users for any purpose. You can, if you wish, disable the use of cookies through the Control Panel button available on any forum page. However, disabling cookies may prevent the use of certain features of VPForums.com (such as downloads).

Third parties such as advertisers and agents, may at their desire set cookies to enhance their ability to generate more detailed statistics. We cannot guarantee their use of cookies, but we can guarantee the cookies will not be able to identify you personally in any way. If you have any further questions about our guarantee, please email arusso@vpforums.com.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. VPForums.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Public Forums and Chat rooms

VPForums.com makes forums and chat rooms available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information; therefore you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact arusso@vpforums.com.