Privacy Policy

Guzzo the Contrarian
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STATEMENT OF PRIVACY PRINCIPLES

Guzzo the Contrarian does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others and will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information without your consent except (i) as described in this privacy policy, or (ii) as required by law, court order or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

Collection of Personal Information:
All of the features on Guzzo the Contrarian are offered freely, without collecting any personal information from you unless you choose to share it. You can access Guzzo the Contrarian and view it’s contents anonymously according to, and in conjunction with, this web blog’s Terms of Use.

“Personal Information” means personally identifiable information, such as your name, position, company, street address, telephone number, fax number, date of birth, e-mail address and other identifiers that permit physical or online identification of a specific individual.

Collection of Non-personally-identifiable Information by Third Parties:
Guzzo the Contrarian may collect and store non-personally identifiable information about your visit whenever you interact with this web blog.

For example, I may automatically collect your IP address, domain name (or DNS), means of entry to the site, the type of browser and operating system used to access this Site, the date, time and duration of each visit, and the pages you visit. I may also use third-party services such as Sitemeter, Google Analytics, Akismet, or other similar services to collect this type of information.

Cookies and Web Beacons:
This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies on Guzzo the Contrarian and does not cover the use of cookies by any other site or third-party.

I may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit Guzzo the Contrarian. Third parties (including advertising services) may be placing and reading cookies on your browser in the normal course of providing services to this web blog. Some services on this Site also may use web beacons (tiny small transparent images) to collect information in the course of providing services to Guzzo the Contrarian.

Your web browser should have options to manage cookies should this be desirable. Consult your browser’s help section for information on viewing, setting, and changing these options.

Google and the DoubleClick DART Cookie:
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Guzzo the Contrarian. As described by Google, the DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.

You can opt out of DART cookie use by visiting the Google advertising and privacy center or by using the NAI Opt-out Tool.

RSS Subscriptions:
Guzzo the Contrarian may record information about how people access it’s RSS feeds, but does not collect any personally identifying information from or about it’s RSS subscribers.

E-mail Subscriptions:
Guzzo the Contrarian’s feed services collect the e-mail addresses of people who subscribe to it’s RSS feeds via e-mail. Individual information about subscribers to Guzzo the Contrarian’s feeds is held in strict confidence; I will not release or disclose any specific subscriber information under any circumstances. Aggregated information stripped of any personally identifiable information may be disclosed.

Other E-mail:
All personal e-mail sent to Guzzo the Contrarian either through the contact form or directly to me in connection with this Site is considered property of this Site. I may use this information to contact you, share information, post questions or tips, or to help prevent spam.

Comments:
Comments submitted at Guzzo the Contrarian are the sole responsibility of the commenter. I reserve the right to remove or edit comments at my discretion. Site URLs (if provided) are published along with comments. E-mail addresses are required with the submission of comments but are not disclosed, unless the commenter deliberately does so by entering the e-mail address in the main comment box in addition to the box clearly labeled for the e-mail address.

External Links:
Guzzo the Contrarian contains links to other sites not owned or operated by PharmAZy Services, LLC. I am not responsible for the content or business practices of these websites nor do I monitor them. When using any of these links I encourage you to read the destination site’s own privacy policy. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Guzzo the Contrarian.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
This Privacy Policy may be amended in whole or in part at any time for any reason without notice to you, whether prior or otherwise. The modified policy shall supersede previous Privacy Policies and shall become binding when published on Guzzo the Contrarian.

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