The privacy of visitors to Elegant Hairstyles.com is important and respected in the same manner as at most reputable websites.
Below is information on what types of personal information is provided and collected when you use this website, and how your information is protected. Your personal information is never sold to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, the data contained in log files is collected and used to monitor site performance, missing page errors; and general user interest. The information in the log files includes: your IP (Internet Protocol) address; your ISP (Internet Service Provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable); the browser you used to visit the site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox); the time you visited the site; and which pages you visited throughout the site.
Example
71.252.166.129- - [05/May/2009:19:20:40 -0400] "GET /redcarpet/pictures/juliannehough02.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 50693 "http://www.eleganthairstyles.com/redcarpet/julianne.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Google Stats
Elegant Hairstyles.com uses Google Analytics, a popular tool used by webmasters, which collects visitor data similar to log files, except it does not disclose IP addresses. Google Analytics provides data about how many hits the site gets; the total number of page views; search engine keywords used to find this site; addresses of other sites which link to Elegant Hairstyles.com; average time visitors spend on this site; and the average number of pages per visit.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Third-party advertisements appear on Elegant Hairstyles.com to support the site. Some of the advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, your browser, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example), or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
Ads companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.
