Other information collected
What about other information you may collect?
It's ok if you are paranoid about your privacy -- in today's day and age there is good reason to be. There are a few other places on our site where information about you may be gathered or requested and this section will discuss them in order to put your mind at ease.
We have a small member kit package that we like to send out for free to supporting members who request it. This is a gesture of our appreciation for joining us and a way to welcome you to our community. We also occasionally send out items such as DonationCoder coffee mugs on special occasions. Obviously, for those who would like these gifts, we need a shipping address at the time of mailing. Your shipping address is not kept on file and we will not use it for any other purpose than to send you your gift.
Like every other site on the internet our web server collects statistics about the number of visitors on our site, which pages they view, how many files on our server is downloaded, etc. We also use Google Analytics sometimes which does the same thing. This data helps us see where people tend to spend time on our site and helps us figure out what goes wrong when the server overloads. We do not share this information with anyone and don't do anything with it besides look at it and thank the stars that we have the money to afford a big enough server to handle all the traffic.
The forum on our website uses a "cookie" to remember your login information on the forum. It serves no other purpose, is not used on other areas of our site, and is not shared with any 3rd party.
We sometimes run giveaways of software on our site -- in such cases you may be asked to provide your name and email to the company giving away the prize so that they can send it to you. We have no control over what the other company does with this information so if you are concerned you should contact them directly. We do not do anything with this information nor retain it.
The DonationCoder.com server is located in the United States and we are subjected to US and international laws. Although it's hard to imagine what information on our server would be of interest to any legal authorities, if we receive a valid legal request to turn over information from a court of law we will be obligated to turn it over.