The privacy of our visitors to steamboatstudio.com
is important to us.
At steamboatstudio.com, we recognize that privacy
of your personal information is important. Here is information
on what types of personal information we receive and collect
when you use visit steamboatstudio.com, and how we safeguard
your information. We never sell your personal information to
third parties.
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
IP (internet protocal) address, your ISP (internet service provider,
such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our
site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited
our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Steamboatstudio.com uses cookies. "Cookies" are small
pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your
computer's hard drive. These are important for our site to function.
Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on our users'
browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the
course of ads being served on this web site.
We also use third party advertisements on Steamboatstudio.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 (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. This is generally used
for geotargeting purposes (showing Denver plant ads to someone
in Denver, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific
sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents
cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s
DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you
are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising
(including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie
is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest
based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based
on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have
been viewing sites about visiting Denver, you may see Denver
hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as
on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable
information”. It does NOT track personal information about
you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone
number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit
card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites
using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can chose 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.