The privacy policy of ABdA’s Philatelic Web Site, hereafter referred as «The Site», specifically states what kind of information it collects, to whom it gives that information, and how it uses the information. Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name, e-mail address, home or work address, or telephone number. However, this site only has access to the personally identifiable information that you provide, or to the choices you make while visiting this Web site. For example, this Web site cannot determine your e-mail name unless you provide it. This Web site cannot gain access to other information on your computer.

This Site declares the following Privacy Policy:

Collected Information:

Forms used in the Community pages, i.e., Guest Book, Forum, Survey, Web and Vignette Suggestions, and Web Ring application, collects any or all of the following information from Users:

1. Name [First and Last Names]
2. Uniform Resource Locator [URL] for Personal Web Site
3. Electronic Mail [e-mail] Address
4. Password for the Web Ring application.

Home or work address, or telephone numbers are NOT collected by this Site. The password for the Web Ring Application is required by the Web Ring site.

Receipt and Use of Collected Information:

Only the webmaster is the sole receipient of such personally identifiable information attached to suggestions, comments and posts. For the first three [1 to 3] items, these are collected for purposes of ascertaining the author’s identity with regard to attibution of suggestions, comments, and posts. When the User chooses to publicize those suggestions or comments by accessing the Guest Book of this Site, such suggestions or comments will construed to be for public consumption and thus they will form part of the pages, temporarily or in perpetuity, in the Community section of this Site.

Cookies Policy:

This Site is deliberately designed not to create a cookie, a small text file that is saved on your computer. However, the web server host of this Site might have its policy to create and store personally identifiable information in a cookie in the user's PC.