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Anonymity and exemption from commercial tracking when surfing the web is important to all of us. My intent is to adhere as closely as possible to Illinois' recent State Web Site Act [House Bill 0032, Public Act 093-0117, to take effect 01 January 2004]. I do not enable cookies, nor use other forms of tracking technology (those that collect unique numbers or information that identify: visitor's internet service providers [ISPs], type of browser used to access sites, operating system(s), internet connection used [modem dial-up, cable, DSL, ISDN, T1, WAN, wireless, Wi-Fi, or satelite], connection speed used for access, date and time of visit, viewing or surfing habits, or personal information of any form). Furthermore, absolutely NO contact information resulting from your visit to this website is monitored, reviewed, captured, or recorded in any database or other form of data retention. Note: I do track, anonymously, the number of visitors to the sites I have created and manage through use of a simple webcounter. The annual and running total number of visits to these sites are noted at either 1) the bottom of the site page, or 2) on a page accessible via a link ("About this website...") in the navigation bar at the bottom of many of my websites. - - MJW
I encourage you to visit the following site Protecting Your Virtual Privacy for general information and suggestions on protecting your virtual privacy; while the information presented there warrants updating, almost daily, the basic information and suggestions are nonetheless applicable to your operating systems and virtual behavior. Please use the links from that website as springboards to new information, and reviews of / recommendations for security hardware and software.

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page update: 31 January 2008