Carl's Guides Site Privacy Policy

This policy contains information about your privacy. By posting, you are declaring that you understand this policy:

• Your name and comment will be publicly displayed if entered.
• Aside from the data entered into these form fields, other stored data about your comment will include:
  • Your IP address (not displayed)
  • The time/date of your submission (displayed)
• Your email address will not be shared. It is collected for only two reasons:
  • Administrative purposes, should a need to contact you arise.
  • To inform you of new comments, should you subscribe to receive notifications.
• A cookie from the comment system may be set on your computer. This is used to remember your inputs. It will expire by itself, and does nothing else.

Youtube Usage

This site makes usage of the Youtube API and embeds videos from Youtube. For this reason please be aware of both Youtube's Terms of Service as well as Google's Privacy Policy.

Forum Registration

Joining our Forum does not require email activation, but you're encouraged to use a real email address in order to receive notifications of new posts, personal messaging, and all other types of correspondence. You are in total control of that, and may opt-out by modifying your profile at any time. Should you wish to have assistance disabling notifications from the Forum, contact [email protected].

Advertisements

We use Google Adsense. Google's policy on Advertising requires me to state the following, which is unrelated to our comments system:

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website.

Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

Publisher Common ID Opt-Out
To control Publisher Common ID settings click here.

EU Consent (GDPR)
You may manage your consent options here if you wish to revoke or grant us the ability to serve personalized ads.

Burst Media

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated infromation (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here