Our Privacy Policy
Alpha Epsilon Systems uses Google Analytics to help analyze how visitors use this site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. Note the deliberate emphasis of anonymous, as no personally identifiable information is collected about you unless you explicitly submit that information on this website.
The anonymous information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of this website is transmitted to Google – not Alpha Epsilon Systems. This information is processed to compile statistical reports on website activity for this site only. We use these reports to evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that we can optimize the content, and its marketing, to better meet your needs.
In summary, your anonymity is safe with Alpha Epsilon Systems. That is our personal commitment to you as a valued reader.
We will not link, or seek to link, any data gathered from this site with any personally identifiable information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information. If you have registered with our website as a user, submitted a blog comment or asked to be notified of updates, we request your name and email address and potentially other non-specific demographic information.
We do this firstly to ensure you are not a robot or spammer, and secondly because the more information we have on actual people (as opposed to cookies), the better we can understand what content is of interest to readers. If you wish your personal information to be removed from this site, simply contact us and we will do this at the earliest opportunity. Note, that in removing your personal details, all your associated content is deleted – such as blog comments you have made.
3rd Party Tracking
This is our position on 3rd party tracking – essentially we do not agree with it. That said, embedded content from other providers may track your interaction with our content. For example, if we embed a video form YouTube, Google will track your interaction. Similarly a click on a social “share” button will result in a third party tracking that activity – such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ etc.
Unfortunately, there is no way around this if you wish to share content socially or interact with content we have embedded form a 3rd-party.
Our advice – set your browser to always block 3rd-party cookies. Content will still work, but no visitor data will be sent sent to a 3rd-party.
Further Information
For further information about how Google Analytics uses cookies and IP address data, see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.