This privacy policy sets out how “This Week In Linux” uses and protects any information that you give ”This Week In Linux” when you use this website. ”This Week In Linux” is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. ”This Week In Linux” may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 11th of January, 2012.

What we collect

For the majority of visitors, the only information collected is done by Google Analytics. Their privacy policy, which details most of what they actually do, can be found here.

If you choose to comment on an article or page on this site, you will be using the Disqus system. Their privacy policy can be found here.

If you provide your email address in the “Subscribe for Email Updates” box on the right-hand side of the site, that address goes straight to FeedBurner, a Google service, and their privacy policy is here.

If you fill out the information on the Contact Page, the information you provide (your name, email address, and the message sent) will be provided to “This Week In Linux” along with your IP address, referring page, and very limited browser information. This is all provided by the FS Contact Form plugin for WordPress.

If you choose to participate in the Forum, your IP address, email address, and any other information you provide will be visible to the administrators of “This Week In Linux”.

What we do with the information we gather

To be frank… absolutely nothing. The Google Analytics data is just used to see what sort of visitors are seeing the website (browser / OS usage, what content is popular, etc.).

The Email Subscription information is used by FeedBurner to deliver updates to your email address when new content is posted to the site.

The Contact Form information is only used to ensure that the contact is not spam.

The information provided to the forum is used to ensure spam is filtered out.

The information will never be sold, traded, given away, printed out and posted on a bulletin board in a public place, etc. If the U.S. Government comes asking for information, and has a warrant in-hand, we will be forced to give it up, but other than that, nothing else will be done with it.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.