IRChelp.org Privacy Notice, Mission Statement, and General Rant
This will be brief and free of legal jargon. We are just a group of volunteer helpers. We have no commercial interests of any sort. None of us are paid or gain anything by doing this. In fact, it’s costing us money and time. We’re just here to help people because we enjoy it.
We have a strict no-ad policy. We do not want to sell you anything, period. That means no banner ads, hot links, or pushy recommendations, PERIOD. IMHO, ads represent conflicts of interest for a help site. Our reputation and Google rank came from our content and nothing else. Thanks to like-minded organizations that don’t mind donating free computing power and bandwidth, we have been providing our free service with no strings attached since 1994, and plan to continue doing so indefinitely.
We have a strict privacy policy. That means no spam, PERIOD.
Our email question form ../mail.cgi is the only one where we ask you to put
in your email address, otherwise how else would we answer your question?
That information is not recorded, we hit reply to answer your question, then
your address is thrown away forever. So please feel free to use your “real”
address. To help us help you better, the computer also records the IP number,
browser version, and operating system version. This is standard practice, and
none of this is linked to you personally. Any website you visit can see this
information, so it’s really no big deal. We’re not going to sell you anything.
We promise.
Like all responsible web sites, we do log all web hits - your IP, the date and time, and the web page you visited. This is for our own debugging and information only, such as to figure out what our most popular pages are so that we can focus our efforts on keeping those up to date. In no way will your IP or any other information be used for public or commercial purposes.
webmaster, http://www.irchelp.org/