Information about Third Party Cookies on this Website (including Advertising, Social Media and Counter/Analytics)

We use outside ad companies to display banner, text and other ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner or other ads are collected by our ad companies, and we do not have access to this information.

You should also be aware that some advertisers may utilise technology such as cookies and web beacons (including in their ads on this site), which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. These types of technology are generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to a person in New York, for example) or selecting which ads to show based on specific sites previously visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and recipe sites).

We use third party visitor counter services (for example Statcounter.com) to help operate, manage and monitor this site. We also may use third party bookmarking and social-networking services (for example Facebook.com and Google.com's +1 button) to help promote this site, and to allow users to tell others about the site. These services may display adverts on this site (typically a button, graphic, or text link, although this may vary). Just like other advertisers, such services may utilise technology such as cookies and web beacons, and may have access to information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.

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 our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

In general, regarding cookies with advertisements, you should be aware of the following key points:

• As described above, adverts from third party advertisers (including banners, buttons, text links, and visitor counters, etc.) may appear on this site
• As described above, adverts from third party advertisers (including Google on many of our sites), may use cookies to serve their adverts
• As described above, cookies from third party advertisers allow them to serve adverts based on visits to both our companies' sites and on visits to other sites on the Internet (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and recipe sites)
• As described above, our company does not have access to the information in any cookies used by third party advertisers
• As described above, cookies may be able to be disabled using browser settings and/or security software, but doing so may affect your use of this site and may prevent you from using certain features of this and other sites
• To learn more about Google's privacy policies, use of cookies and your options in relation to opting-out or not having this information used, please see http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Additionally, Google have also asked us to make you aware of the following points:

• Google uses the DoubleClick cookie to enable it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to our company's sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the ads preference manager. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third party vendor's use of cookies for interest based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/

You may also find it helpful to know that Google have created a webpage where they describe what cookies are, and how they use cookies in Google's services, at https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/.


Cookies Set By Us Directly

Some features of this website may use cookies from time-to-time. These cookies are used to implement site features such as:

• To automatically direct visitors to the webpage from certain kinds of external links
• To help prevent fraud and/or abuse (for example to stop e-commerce fraud or multiple voting in polls and top sites)
• To measure response rates to this website's advertising/marketing campaigns
• To avoid users having to repeatedly re-enter log-in or other information again and again

In all such cases, we are not able to identify, nor do we try, to identify individual users by cookies.


In addition to the above, you may also wish to read the this website's privacy policy which has much information on our privacy and data-collection policies.