JP Consulting takes the privacy of our readers very seriously. On this page,
we have tried to address some of the main privacy concerns that you might have.
If you have additional questions that are not answered here, please
contact us. We respect your rights and privacy, and will be
happy to answer any questions or concerns you might have.
This privacy statement explains our policy regarding any personal information
you may supply to us when visiting any of JP Consulting's web sites.
Contact Us
We use e-mail links, located on the 'contact us' page to allow you to contact us
directly with any questions or comments you may have. This information is used
to respond directly to your questions or comments. This information may be filed
and used to help us prioritize our development needs and continuously improve
our products to meet your needs. We do not release your e-mail address to
any third parties.
Public Forums
We also make available: forums, message boards and news groups to our customers.
Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes
public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose
your personal information.
Business Relationships
JP Consulting sites contain links to other Web sites. JP Consulting is not
responsible for the privacy practices, copyright or content of such Web sites.
Information we gather
We collect the browser and/or operating system used, internet address number (IP
Address), but not the e-mail address, of visitors to our web sites unless
voluntarily submitted through one of our forms. We also collect data on pages
that readers access or visit and information volunteered by readers, such as
survey information and/or site registrations.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online may receive
telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed
online or questions they may have asked.
What about Cookies?
A cookie is either a small text file that is stored on your hard drive, or some
information that is stored in memory until you close your browser. JP Consulting
web sites may save information on your system in the form of a cookie to allow:
a personalized browsing experience, access to a secure implementation, or to
better track usage of our web sites for improvement and for marketing purposes.
How does it help me?
Some of our statistics programs will issue you a cookie when you first come to
our site and then use that information to allow us to gather more detailed
information about activity on our site. Instead of using an arbitrary amount of
inactivity time to signal the end of a visit, activity from the same cookie is
considered a visit. This process provides us with information about which
areas of our sites are popular or not so popular, navigation routes, competitive
interests etc. This information together with other customer feedback is also
used to help us prioritize our development efforts and continuously improve our
web sites to meet your needs as well as market our product in the most effective
way.
There is some concern that cookies can access and read other areas of your
hard drive, or that personal information about you can be read by the web site.
Web pages that write and read cookies can only interact with the cookie file(s)
for your browser and a cookie can only be accessed by the same domain server
that sent it. The U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory
Capability has issued an information bulletin stating that privacy advocates'
fears over the use of cookies -- a popular technique for tracking Web site
visitors -- are unfounded. The claims that Web cookies may be used to gather
information on "passwords, credit card numbers, and a list of the software
on your computer" is not even "close to the truth," according to
the bulletin. In fact, information that is gathered via cookies -- usually a
user's numerical Internet address, browser type and operating system -- can also
be recorded in a Web server's log files. "Cookies just make it easier. [A
server] cannot find out your name or e-mail address, or anything about your
computer using cookies," says the bulletin. Click
here to read the full report.
JP Consulting recognizes our user's privacy concerns. You may choose to
reject cookies either outright, or on a case-by-case basis using the
instructions for your browser below. However, in a few cases this may cause the
web site to function incorrectly, or nor at all.
Controlling Cookies
Netscape Navigator
Beginning with version 4.0, Netscape Navigator began giving users the power to
control cookies. In version 4.0 and higher, you can activate your "Cookie
Alert" by pulling down the Edit menu and clicking Preferences. Click
Advanced Settings at the bottom of the dialog box, and choose from the
following:
- Accept all cookies
- Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server
- Disable cookies
Another option is for Netscape Navigator to warn you before accepting a
cookie. Every time there is an incoming cookie, a dialog box will ask if you
want to accept it.
For more information, see http://www.netscape.com/legal_notices/cookies.html.
Internet Explorer
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every
time a cookie is offered. Then you can decide whether to accept one or not.
If you’re using Internet Explorer 4.0
- Choose View, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Advanced tab,
- Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and
- Choose on of the three options to regulate your use of cookies
- If you’re using Internet Explorer 3.0
- Choose View, then
- Edit, then
- Preferences, then
- Click on Advanced, and
- Set your options in the box labeled "Cookies"
