privacy policy
email eddresses
Email addresses are not shared with or sold to any 3rd parties.
spam and promotional communication
No advertising or promotional emails will be sent to you unless you choose to receive them ('opt-in'). Likewise, no advertising or promotional mailings will be sent to your mailing address unless you choose to receive them.
IP addresses and browsing information
We use Google Analytics and StatCounter.com to track information about our visitors and how they navigate our site. We also log IP addresses and browser types for debugging information. No attempt is made to connect IP addresses to personally identifiable information except for the following circumstances. An IP address may be recorded when an order is submitted, or when an user submits a post, comment or rating. We do this primarily to prevent abuse. Information about individual IP addresses is not shared with or sold to any 3rd parties.
personal information
No personal information other than an email address is required to create an account, and even this isn't required to make a purchase. If you'd like to lookup current or past orders through CuriousInventor.com, however, you will need to create an account at CuriousInventor.com. Note that your orders can be tracked through Google Checkout without a CuriousInventor.com account.
We use Google Checkout to process all orders, and are only supplied with your shipping address and email address. Furthermore, you can choose to hide your email address behind a Google Checkout forwarding address. No credit card or other billing information is ever revealed to Curious Inventor, LLC.
security
We do NOT use any type of secure connection to safeguard communications between your browser and our server, such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology. This means your CuriousInventor.com password could potentially be eavesdropped on, but it's unlikely, and many forum sites also operate without SSL. However, when you make a purchase, all credit card information is directly handled by Google Checkout, and is completely secure.
cookies
Cookies are required to log in, order, post, or rate items. Google Analytics also uses cookies. All cookies that we create are given an expiration date of 30 days.
policy changes
We may change this policy without any notice.