Hari's Corner

As a result of displaying advertising on this website and selling my web space to esteemed online advertising networks, I have now the privilege and pleasure of putting up a privacy policy on this website; because as everybody knows, The Papa Hari World Government is watching your every move through high resolution hidden cameras and the Papa Hari World Marketing Management Committee is busy collecting every single bit of private data about you, like how many times you scratched your head last week so that hair-care and pharmaceutical companies can send you more spam.

Jokes apart, this is exactly the info I collect from my end. No personally identifiable information about you will be made public (except website URL if specified and your name as used in comments) or revealed to any third party under any circumstances except a court order.

• Your IP address, email and website URL (if specified) will be recorded for every comment you make here. Only your screen name and website URL will be displayed in public. No tracking cookies are used by this site, but for your convenience your name, e-mail and website information are stored as cookies on your browser, so that the next time you visit this site, you needn't type them in again.
• Some advertisers like google track your web usage through cookies. I suggest you always clear all browser cookies at the end of every browsing session in any case if you don't want advertisers to track your online usage in general. This site has opted in to google's interest-based advertising. See also google's privacy information to address your concerns about cookie-tracking.
• No other personally identifiable information is collected from any visitor or recorded for ANY purpose, commercial or non-commercial. Generic website statistics collected by the server is perused privately by me purely for personal entertainment and educational purposes.
• I undertake not to initiate any private contact with you by e-mail UNLESS absolutely required or requested by you.

This policy does not apply to spammers, unfriendly web bots which violate robots.txt and affiliated organizations, scamsters and any others who violate related Cyber Laws or make any attempt to violate the privacy of others. Comments which appear here are subject to my sole discretion and any information or comments posted here by third parties may be deleted or removed without assigning any reasons whatsoever.

Any doubts on the above? Please ask me. Note that queries regarding the business ethics, principles and policies of google or other online advertising networks should be addressed to the respective parties concerned.