Most web sites collect some sort of information about their visitors
in order to gather statistics about how many visitors they get each month, what
are the most and least popular pages on the web site, where there may be problems
in serving certain pages to visitors, etc. In an effort to answer questions
such as these, iPod Sites also collects certain basic information about its
visitors.
Please note, however, that iPod Sites has no interest in personally
identifying its users. This would be practically quite difficult, and quite
an unnecessary task to accomplish anyway. The only thing that iPod Sites is
interested in is the overall statistics of its usage. Cumulative figures that
provide a picture of visitor traffic to our site are vital in our efforts to
attract advertisers--upon whose support the site depends--and to monitor how
well our web server is keeping up with our ever-increasing usage.
So what information does iPod Sites collect about its visitors? Each time someone
visits the site, our web server logs a number of details--if they are available--including
the IP address of the visitor's computer and/or Internet service provider, the
domain name and country of origin of that computer, its operating system, and
the type of web browser being used.
In addition to the statistics that our own web server collects, the third-party
advertising agencies that we work with may also collect certain information
through the use of banner ads.
Third Party Advertising
We use various third-party advertising companies to serve ads when
you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this
and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other
sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser
may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.
If you wish not to have iPod Sites keep any records of your visit to our site,
even though it is our policy not to personally identify individual users but
only to gather overall cumulative information about our visitors, then we suggest
that you use an anonymous web browsing service such as Anonymizer.com.
Such services typically hide all information about particular users from web
sites, which log visits from the anonymizing service instead of the users' own
computers.
With kind regards
The iPod Sites team