Good question Bill. As you know, we do not ask for your name, address, phone number, country, etc. If you wish to publish this information on the forums, that is up to you.
The only real "private" information we care about is your IP address and your email address.
We use the IP address to be able to protect the system from people who want to disrupt the forums.
We use the email address to verify that the person signing up is doing so with a real account. Spam is a real and constant problem. If a new user is just trying to spam the forums and uses a bogus email, they will never get validated. Also, in your Control Panel, you can choose whether or not you make your email available to other members.
Therefore, both items that we are concerned about are in place to protect FG and its members.
What about all of the other information?
The system itself is run from database calls. The statistics generated by you are used internally to produce the pages you see now. ForumGarden keeps track of posts, rankings, threads, member ids, newest threads, hot topics, new members, and hundreds of other tidbits that allow FG to operate.
A good place to see these statistics in action is at
www.forumgarden.com
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Originally Posted by Bill Sikes
I have read the Forum Garden "privacy statement". This tells me that
ForumGarden.com "does not share private information with others".
What information, apart from e-mail addresses, actually is collected,
or observed, by ForumGarden.com?
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