We value the privacy of theproperblog.com readers and we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here are a few tid-bits about the types of information we may receive or collect when you visit theproperblog.com, and how we take every step we can to safeguard your information.  Most importantly, we never sell your personal information to third parties. These are just a few ways we help make your visit to Proper more personalized.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information in the log files include your ISP, your IP address, the browser you used to visit our site, the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. This basically just shows us what content you’re interested in seeing more of around here.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site.  This could include enhancing the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums. We love the cookies! Both cyber and real! 😉

We also use third party advertisements on theproperblog.com to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (meaning you will see Denver ads if you live in Denver) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

You can also choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in internet security programs.  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.

Thank you, as always, for your support of Proper. We couldn’t bring painted treats and Diet Coke to the masses without you!