Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for paularbear.com
The privacy of our visitors to paularbear.com is important to us.
At paularbear.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit paularbear.com, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell your personal information to third parties unless obligated by contract or law.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information in the log files include  your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on paularbear.com to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, 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).
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. Thanks for visiting and enjoy the site!

Additionally:

• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to paularbear.com.
• Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to user based on their visit to paularbear.com and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may be able to opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising  by visiting aboutads.info.

Also,
When applicable, paulabear.com is permitted to:

• Notify site visitors of the third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on paularbear.com.
• Provide links to the appropriate vendor and ad network websites.
• Inform users that they may visit those websites to opt out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, users may opt out of some third-party vendor's use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.