Privacy Policy

Spiritus-Temporis respects privacy of Internet Users and does not collect personally identifying information without the Internet User's permission.

However you should know that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served.

This policy applies to the web site http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/ ("Spiritus-Temporis") and all its sub-domains. The full text of our privacy is available on the Web at: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/privacy.html.

Spiritus-Temporis does not collect Internet User identity or contact information from Internet User's visits to Spiritus-Temporis.com. For each visit to Spiritus-Temporis.com a given amount of information is collected and stored on our servers. No more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.

Click-stream data:

• URI of requested resource:
  The full URI requested by the user. This mean the full address of the page being requested. This information is only used for statistics purpose to determine which parts of our site are the most visited. This information is never linked to an individually identified person.

• Request timestamp:
  Time that the request was processed by the server. We use this information to watch the evolution of visits along days, weeks and months. For example this helps us to schedule maintenance operations. This information is never linked to an individually identified person.

• Client's IP address:
  The IP (Internet Protocol) address of the user's computer. This data is anonymous. It is simply a number in the form xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx. In theory it is possible to find exactly who you are, or more precisely, where you are, thanks to this number. However, in practice this data can only be used to record the number of unique visitors and their country or origin. That is all. As with all the other information we collect, it is never linked to any individually identified person. We only use this information in a global way to know how many visitors are from the USA, Canada, France, UK, and so on. This helps us to determine the kind of audience of our site and thus to customize as much as possible and to match visitors' interests.

• Data bytes in response:
  Data bytes returned by the server in response. This is the size of the files served. This information helps us to manage our bandwidth.

• Response status code:
  HTTP status code generated by the server for the response. Status codes allows tracking possible missing files or broken links (well known 404 error).

HTTP protocol elements:

• User agent information:
  The client description string sent by most Web browsers, giving the type, version, and platform type of the user's Web browser. This is sent by clients as the User-Agent: HTTP header. This information is used for statistics to know how many visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc. We also use this information to customize HTML pages. It happens that sometimes Web browsers do not interpret an HTML code exactly the same way. So with this information we can serve pages that are compatible with visitor's Web browser.

• Last URI requested by the user:
  This is sent by clients as the Referer: HTTP header. This data is not linked to an individually identified person and is only used to know from where visitors are coming and how they browse our site.

The above data are marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

Next to browsing the site, you can participate in the Spiritus-Temporis Community. In that case, additionally to what was described in the above ("Collection of Data from Visitors") a given amount of information will be collected.

• Your E-mail address:
  To participate in the Spiritus-Temporis Community, you have to provide a valid e-mail address. Your e-mail will be kept in our records but will never be divulged or sold to third party.

• Your Date of Birth:
  When you register at Spiritus-Temporis, you have to provide your REAL Date of Birth. Your year of birth/age won't be shown, but by registering you certify the accuracy of this information.

• Your IP address:
  Each time you perform an action (posting a message, uploading an image, etc.) your IP address will be recorded. You must understand that Spiritus-Temporis can use this information to block your access in the case of bad behaviour, fraudulent activity. We would like to insist on the fact that you endorse the entire responsibility concerning the material (text, data, image, etc.) you post at Spiritus-Temporis. If any of your actions results in illegal or reprehensible activity, we may have to communicate your IP address to the appropriate authorities.

HTTP cookies, or more commonly referred to as Web cookies, tracking cookies or just cookies, are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system.

Spiritus-Temporis makes use of cookies to store a given number of information such as session tracking for logged members.

Spiritus-Temporis includes third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites.

You should know that these third parties may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads at Spiritus-Temporis.com.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Here are common questions and answers regarding our privacy policy.

What information does Spiritus-Temporis collect from you?

• You can visit Spiritus-Temporis and use many of our services without having to tell us who you are or reveal any personally identifiable information to us. It is only when using certain Spiritus-Temporis services, or participating in the Spiritus-Temporis Community, that you will be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information (e-mail address, date of birth, etc.)

• Spiritus-Temporis may set and access cookies on your computer. Cookies are used to store your preferences/options and other kinds of information in order to customize your use of Spiritus-Temporis, as well as to identify you when you log on to your account.

• Whenever you visit Spiritus-Temporis our web server logs automatically receive and record anonymous information from your web browser including your IP Address, Spiritus-Temporis cookie information, the Spiritus-Temporis page(s) you request, and any search terms you query.

• When using some particular services of Spiritus-Temporis you may be requested to supply personal information, such as your email address. For example, to participate in the Spiritus-Temporis Community you have to provide a user name (which can be a nickname), a valid email address and your Date of Birth.

Do any third parties receive or collect your information through Spiritus-Temporis?

• Spiritus-Temporis does not and will not share personally identifiable information with other companies or individuals.

• Spiritus-Temporis allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer or use web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Spiritus-Temporis' cookies or Members' data.

What are you doing with e-mail addresses?

• When you participate in the Spiritus-Temporis Community by creating an account, posting messages, uploading images, etc., you have to provide a valid e-mail address. However this e-mail will be kept confidential. Spiritus-Temporis will never share, communicate or sell these e-mail addresses with other companies or individuals.

• Spiritus-Temporis will only use your e-mail address for communication purpose. For example, we may address to you, from time to time, newsletters announcing changes to Spiritus-Temporis.

• When you participate in the Spiritus-Temporis Community, this e-mail address can be used to send you notification each time a topic you are monitoring is updated.