Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for astrob0t.comPermalink

The privacy of readers – regular, casual or one off – here at astrob0t.com is important to us. We ourselves are readers of websites too, so knowing what

Below is some information on the types of personal information received and collected when you use and visit the site (astrob0t.com), what it’s for, what it’s collected, and how we safeguard your information.

We never sell any personal information collected first-hand to third parties.

Log FilesPermalink

As with most other websites you visit online we collect data contained in log files.

The information in the log files include your IP address, your ISP (such as AOL or BSNL), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Chrome or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Although we rarely ever look at the log files in question, (they’re theoretically useful for tracking down bot attacks and the like) we’re obliged to tell you, we do.

Cookies & Web BeaconsPermalink

Cookies are used on this site to store information for analytics (seeing how many people visit the site, what pages they read, etc), social interaction (buttons to share on Facebook, etc), advertisements, and any additional features used on an individual articles (e.g., polls, quizzes, feedback forms).

Mr. Cookie Monstarr!!

Amongst the services that either do or may use cookies on this site are:

  • Google Analytics for analytics
  • Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube for social interaction
  • Advertisements
  • PollDaddy for polls and surveys
  • YouTube, Vimeo, Vine and Instagram embeds
  • MailChimp for mailing list

Some 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. These cookies are generally used for geo-targeting purposes (like showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking related sites).

  • You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google by visiting Ads Settings and aboutads.info.
  • You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings.

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.