Information collected by ForumGarden.com

[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?

[Forumgarden]

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

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?

[anastrophe]

sounds pretty reasonable.

[Tombstone]

Show me a statistic and I'll tell you a story....

[capt_buzzard]

I go along with that. I changed my email address when I joined,as I thought this Forum was like other forums that send you lots of spam ect. But this is not the case with FG. And so I posted my real email address.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by Forumgarden

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. What about all of the other information?]

Thank you for this information - What sort of disruption might you take action
over, I wonder? Posting advertisements, bad language, posting inappropriate
attachments, that sort of stuff? Under certain circumstances, would you block
the originating IP address, fire off complaints to the ISP, etc? Just wondering.

Originally Posted by Forumgarden

The system itself is run from database calls.

Interseting. I wonder what sort of database.... maybe you won't want to say!

:)

[capt_buzzard]

And Who get's to view the database? Well I'm clean, I do not,and have not supported any Terrorists groups. I don't alway's agree with some of your governments policies in regards to overseas activities. Leaving politics aside I love the American Way of life,your culture and heritage is well known troughout Ireland and the rest of the world now that I mention it. Everybody,from young people in their teens and upwards wants to be and look and feel American in their everyday lifestyles. My neighbour still loves Elvis,his daughter aged 19 wants to be an American pop idol. We eat and drink American food. For many years I was James Dean with a can of bud or Miller.

From Ireland to Iran,some may not admit it,but they all love The American Lifestyle. And long may it continue.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by capt_buzzard

And Who get's to view the database? Well I'm clean, I do not,and have not supported any Terrorists groups.

Erm, I think that the ForumGarden administrator was referring to how this "forum"
works, not that information on contributors and their comments is collected.

Originally Posted by capt_buzzard

From Ireland to Iran,some may not admit it,but they all love The American Lifestyle. And long may it continue.

What an extraordinary statement - OT in this "arena" I guess - transfer it
somewhere else for further comment?

[Peg]

I'd imagine this forum works much like the one I moderate. As said, the IP helps to stop any trouble makers, the e mail address so they can send e mail when there are updates, etc. You can see top posters, statistics of how many posts each person makes, how many are made a day, how many new users join each day, their date of last activity in the forum. Basically, there's a lot of statistics, no personal information other than what the person has put in their bio.

[capt_buzzard]

What I meant was from Ireland to Iran one can hear american c/w music or see kids drinking Pepsi Cola,or wearing base ball caps.