RxTrace Privacy Policy

When you subscribe via email, both Google and I have access to your email address and I promise never to sell or give it away to anyone.  Google is involved only because they own Feedburner, the service I use that performs the subscription magic.  Google’s privacy policy can be found here but I can assure you that they do not give away or sell your email address and they don’t generate spam with it.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE VIA EMAIL

After you enter your email address into the “Subscribe via Email” entry field and click the Subscribe button, you will receive an email at the entered address.  This email will contain a URL that you must click on to confirm that you have control of that email account.  Once subscribed in this way, you will automatically receive one email each day that I post a new essay on the RxTrace website.  The email you receive will include the first part of the essay and a link to the full essay.  It will also include an “unsubscribe” link which you can use to unsubscribe whenever you wish.

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact me at:

RxTrace@gmail.com

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS

If you use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to subscribe, I believe that Google Feedburner is still involved, but you don’t have to give it your email address.  However, keep in mind that RSS is not a very tight bond and RSS subscribers have lost the connection with RxTrace from time to time when I  have made infrastructure changes.  If the feed seems to go dead, you might want to investigate.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU ENTER A COMMENT AT THE END OF A POST

When you enter a comment at the bottom of a post you may choose to remain anonymous, or you may identify yourself.  The comment entry form allows you to enter your Name, Mail and Website URL, but these are all optional fields.  If you wish to remain anonymous, please don’t enter anything into those fields.  After submitting a comment, it will not be published immediately.  Instead, I receive an email from WordPress so I can review your comment.  If you entered anything into the Name, Mail or Website fields, I will see that data in the email I receive.  If you didn’t enter anything in one or more of those fields I will have no way of knowing who you are–total anonymity.  As long as the comment is pertinent, I will publish it, regardless of whether you identify yourself.

If you leave an email address and there is anything that I feel makes your comment marginally unpublishable I will contact you and suggest some way of modifying it so that it can be published, but this will be rare, I think.  Keep in mind, this process of comment moderation can take some time if I am not monitoring email at the time you submit your comment.  The delay can be up to a full day, I suppose, but most often I should be able to approve your comment for publication within 1 to 60 minutes.  Please be patient and check back later. Comment moderation is only necessary because, believe it or not, people frequently try to inject spam into blog comments.