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We are committed to protecting your privacy and to making your use of this website as
safe as possible. This privacy statement describes what personal information we might
hold about you, how we obtain it, what we might do with it, who we might pass it on to
and under what circumstances we might pass it on.
do you have to submit personal information to use this website?
You can visit our website without submitting any personal information about
yourself at all and our website does not use "cookies" or any other
technology to store information on your computer or to track your visits to our
website.
Our webserver does create logs of all visits to our website and you agree, by
accessing this website, that your IP address and your actions on this website
may be recorded in our webserver's logs.
It may be possible in certain circumstances, such as when your computer has a fixed IP
address with a registered domain name, to use the data from our webserver's logs to
obtain your name and address. However, it is not our policy to use our webserver's
logs to obtain any personal information or to personally identify any
individual.
We normally use the information in our webserver's log to assist with our website design
and maintenance, which does not require us to obtain any personal information about
visitors to our website or to personally identify any individual. The only exception to
this policy is if you break the terms of use for the support forums.
In such circumstances we will provide all the relevant information from our
webserver's logs to your ISP and to the law enforcement authorities, as appropriate.
what personal information might we hold about you?
We obtain, and store, all, or some, of the following personal
information about you:
- Your name (including email nicknames), if you send us an email;
- Your email address, if you send us an email;
- Information you have provided in emails that you have sent to us;
- Information about the computer systems and services that you use
to access the Internet, from our webserver's logs;
- Information about your activities on our website, from our webserver's logs.
how do we obtain your personal information?
We obtain, and store, personal information about you when:
- You send us an email;
- We analyse the information in our webserver's logs.
what do we do with your personal information?
We use your personal information to:
who will we pass your personal information to?
We will not pass your email address, or any other personal information we hold
about you, to any third party, except in the following circumstances:
- When required to do so by law;
- When you request us to do so, in writing;
- If you misuse this website by breaking the terms of use for the support forums
we will pass any personal information we hold about you to your ISP and the law
enforcement authorities, as appropriate.
what are the privacy policies of linked websites?
This website contains links to other websites. However, inconfidence.org
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other
websites.
how can we be contacted?
You can contact us by sending an email to info@inconfidence.org.
If you prefer to contact us anonymously please use this form.
You can take steps to increase your safety when using the internet and visiting this
website so that it is more difficult for an abuser to discover your internet activities.
The safest possible way for you to protect yourself is to use a computer that the abuser
does not have access to, such as a computer in a public library, at a friend's home or
at work.
If you must use a computer that the abuser has access to then you can make it much more
difficult to discover your internet activities in the following ways.
email
If the abuser has access to your email account, they may be able to read your email. To
make your email account more secure make sure that you choose a password that the abuser
will not be able to guess and do not store the password in your email account settings.
If you receive threatening or harassing email messages print them out and save
them on your computer as evidence of the abuse. Saving them on your computer in your
email software will usually preserve important hidden information, know as the email
headers, that may show details about the computer used to send the email. Printing the
emails does not normally print the email headers.
web browser history/cache file
If the abuser knows how to read your browser's history or cache file, they may be able
to see the information you have viewed recently on the internet. You can clear your
history and empty your cache file using your web browser's settings as follows.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer ~ Pull down the Tools
menu, click on Internet Options. On the General tab, under Temporary Internet
Files, click the Delete Files button. Under History click the Clear History
button.
- Netscape Navigator ~ Pull down the Edit menu, click
on Preferences. Click on Navigator in the left hand pane and then click on the
Clear History button in the right hand pane. Click on Advanced in the left hand
pane to expand the menu tree then click on Cache in the left hand pane. Finally
click on the Clear Disk Cache button in the right hand pane.
- AOL ~ Pull down the Members menu, click on
Preferences. Click on the WWW icon and then click Advanced. Finally select Purge
Cache.
But the safest possible way for you to protect yourself from an abuser who has
access to your computer is to use a computer that the abuser does not have access to,
such as a computer in a public library, at a friend's home or at work.
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