Our readership's privacy is of utmost importance to us. Protecting your privacy is a very important daily concern at AVSIM Online. We are publishing the following privacy policies for your review and so that you have a full understanding of what information AVSIM does gather, and what we do with that information.

• Information that AVSIM Online Gathers:

  AVSIM Online does not use cookies, or any other methods of gathering information about our readership without you being fully appraised of it. When we do gather information by use of a cookie, that information is used strictly for tabulation of demographics and "hit counts". It is important for you to know the intent behind gathering that information.

  Outside of the AVSIM Forums, only one other area uses cookies: the AVSIM File Library. A cookie will be used in the Library to track which files you have already rated. This cookie cannot be used to identify you personally: no IP address, email address or name will be logged -- only the fact that a given user has rated a given set of files.

• Forum Cookies:

  Cookies are used by ALL of the AVSIM forums to track your preferences in configuration of the forum for your personal use and the time and date of your visit. From this cookie information, the forum is able to tell you which message are new and store your preferred method for reading the forums. No personal information beyond the preferences settings selected by you is gathered by these cookies.

• Email Addresses and Selling of Email Addresses:

  AVSIM does not collect email addresses for resell to third parties without your knowledge. There are many sites that do this however, and we find the practice to be unacceptable. We do however provide you the choice of being placed on an email list if you so choose (go to Vendor's Mail List for more information on this).

• Email Robots, Purloining of Addresses and the Like:

  If you have been on the web for anytime, you will know that there are email robots that circulate through sites collecting all email address on that site that it can find. We have no way to prevent this and all web sites are subjected to this. We do everything possible to prevent it, but these robots can garnish your email from here and just about everywhere else on the net for that matter without much that the webmaster can do to prevent it. When we are able to identify this as taking place, we actively pursue the vendor and will take legal action as the last recourse to prevent violations of our user's privacy.

• Surveys:

  AVSIM occasionally conducts surveys. No personal information is gathered except that which you might answer in the survey. Since the results are public, this information can be used by vendors to track preferences and other information as a result.

• Contests:

  From time to time AVSIM will sponsor contests. Winners of the contests will be communicated to the sponsoring vendor(s), but entrant's information will not. Winners should assume that they will be placed on the vendor's email list.