DCFOUNTAIN.COM

With limited exceptions, all content on DCFOUNTAIN.COM is fully accessible without providing any personal information whatsoever, allowing visitors to browse the site anonymously.

In order to make use of certain optional services, such as posting comments or subscribing to post notifications, an e-mail address or more may be necessary. Whatever personal information you do provide remains exclusively for use in managing this site or fulfilling your request, and is never posted on the site or shared with third parties.

The only exception to this policy may be operational “cookies” set by a few external third-party subscription services used by this site, along with whatever other information you may provide to these services. Please see “External Cookies” below for more details.

Internal Cookies

Like most any other site, DCFOUNTAIN.COM makes limited use of operational cookies that collect anonymous statistics used for 2 purposes only: to help in deciding future content and making site improvements. The cookies enable us to understand:

• The number of visitors who are accessing the site.
• Which pages, posts and topics are generating the most interest.
• Which Web browsers and computer operating systems are used (e.g. Mac or Windows XP/Vista).

These cookies do not collect names or any other personal identifying information. The cookies do note the IP address of each visitor’s Internet connection, which allows us to determine the collective total number of different visitors who are accessing the site each day.

External Cookies

In addition to the operational cookies described above, certain optional third-party services used on this site — as well as external sites linked from this one — may set their own cookies. At this time, these specific third-party services are as follows:

• FeedBurner – a service that allows you to subscribe to this site via RSS feed or e-mail.
• Sphere — a service at the end of each post that allows you to find related material elsewhere in the blogosphere.
• Share/Save — a service that allows you to subscribe to this site via various feed-reader or bookmarking services.
• ShareThis — a service that allows you to share a post with others by e-mail, text message or select social bookmarking sites.
• Zazzle – a secure, encrypted online fulfillment and distribution service for DCFOUNTAIN.COM-branded gear.
• Creative Commons – A globally applicable copyright licensing service that allows creators of original material to easily communicate which legal rights they reserve and which rights they waive for others to use in freely sharing their material with others.
• Google Translations – foreign language translation service.
• YouTube, NBC, MSNBC and other video resources — services used to embed video clips for viewing directly on this site.

Every effort will be made to update this list as any additional third-party services are added in the future. For further details on how any of these external services use your personal information, please see the respective site’s own privacy policy.

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