Bear Planet Privacy Policy
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The information at BearPlanet.org is for informational purposes only.
At BearPlanet.org.org, 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 visit BearPlanet.org, and how we safeguard your information.
We never sell your personal information to third parties.
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 address,
your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, 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 the ability to login to some of our features,
such as forums.
Third party advertisements
We also use third party advertisements BearPlanet.org 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 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 or showing certain ads based on
specific sites visited.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies
in your browser settings. 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.
Google and the DoubleClick DART cookie
Google, as a third party vendor, uses DART cookies to serve ads on Bearplanet.org.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit
to our site and other sites on the Internet.
DART uses "non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name,
email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy.
References:
- Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammas of the World
- D.E. Wilson/D.M Reeder: Mammal species of the world
- Barbara Rogers: Giant panda's
- Robert Elman: Bears
- Fred Bruemmer: World of the Polar Bear
- TV series Wild, WIld World of Animals
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