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The first thing you need to know is that none of our article pages or newsletters use cookies or collect user information of any kind.

That said, if you contact us by e-mail, sign up for our newsletter, or sign up for our discussion forums, we will collect certain information necessary to process your request. Again, this doesn't happen unless you initiate the contact.

  • If You Voluntarily Contact Us, we ask for your full name and address, because we wasted many hours researching and providing detailed answers to what seemed like legitimate questions from interested readers, only to discover that the whole contact was somebody's idea of a "joke," or that the person took the information we gave him and posted it elsewhere as if he was the source.

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    No one but the site Administrator will ever see your information; we never share it with anybody period.

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    No one besides the forum Administrator will ever see your details, or even your real name or e-mail address. We never share it with anybody period.

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