Privacy Policy

About TheToxicZone.com

This is a privacy policy for TheToxicZone.com The homepage is located at http://www.thetoxiczone.com This site is a none profit making, information service run as a hobby by the webmaster. The sites purpose is explain in detail on the home page so I will not bore you again with it here.

Users of this site can't opt-out the recording of data done by this site except by the use of client site tools that block the transmission of this data to the sites server. Please however be aware that blocking of cookies in use on this site, will only affect your viewing pleasure, and will not affect me in anyway. Okay I lie it will save me disk space the log files take up, but beyond that, the information about what state the menu was in when you changed page is about as useless to me as it would be to any sane person.

You may contact me by e-mail at webmaster@thetoxiczone.com if you have questions about this policy or any other matter to do with this site.

Dispute Resolution

I have the following privacy dispute resolution mechanisms.

If you think I have not followed my privacy policy in some way, I will see how I can help you resolve your concern. All you have to do is e-mail the above address. Obviously you will need to include details of the problem you have with my privacy policy, if I agree I will sort the problem out ASAP, if not I will try to explain why I feel it is not a problem. We may have to continue this process until the matter is settled, but the important thing to remember here is we sort the problem out.

Additional Information

This policy is valid for 1 week from the time that it is loaded by a client.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 2 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Menu"

We collect the following information:

HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

The dynamic tree menu requires state information to be held so you don't have to reopen or close nodes when moving around this site.

Group "Log"

We collect the following information:

Request date
Request time
Full IP address
HTTP request method
URI stem
Query-string portion of URI
Response status code
Data bytes in response
User agent information
HTTP cookies
Referer URI stem
Referer Query-string portion of URI

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.
Anonymous user analysis.
Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

This data is stored in the web server log. This is done for a number of reasons, mainly to monitor server usage. i.e. What pages are being viewed, and what errors are being produced, this helps me know what my user like and what they don't, it also let me know when I can remove dead pages.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Site administration
Completing the user's current activity
Pseudononymous analysis
Pseudonym-based decision-making
Research and development

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

CP="NOI DSP COR NID CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa OUR STP COM NAV CNT"

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.
Field	Meaning
`CP=`	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
`NOI`	No identifiable information is collected, so no access is possible.
`DSP`	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
`COR`	Violations of this policy will be corrected.
`NID`	The information collected is not personally identifiable.
`CURa`	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
`ADMa`	The data is used for site administration.
`DEVa`	The data is used for research and development.
`PSAa`	The data is used for pseudononymous analysis.
`PSDa`	The data is used for pseudononymous decision-making.
`OUR`	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
`STP`	The data is kept for the stated purpose only.
`COM`	Computer information is collected.
`NAV`	Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
`CNT`	Content data is collected.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.