Privacy Policy

ARCHIVED 2014-04-01, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20140401_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20130505_rev01

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 ## Privacy Statement for W3Schools
 The following statements describes the privacy practices for W3Schools:
 - We do not collect any personal information from our users
+- IP addresses are logged for aggregate statistics and diagnosis
+- We only share aggregated statistics with our partners
+- Visits are logged for aggregate statistics and diagnosis
 - Security settings protect the misuse of sensitive information
+- W3Schools does not use cookies to track any user information
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 ## Personal User Information
+W3Schools does not collect any information about its users or visitors.
+W3Schools requires no user registration. Users are free to visit W3Schools, and navigate all its pages.
+Users are free to visit W3Schools, and navigate all its pages, without any user registration.
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+## Cookies
+Our website uses cookies, like almost all websites. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
+Our cookies help us:
+- Improve the speed of the site
+- Continuously improve our website for you
+- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
+- Offer you free services/content (by advertising)
+- Make our marketing more efficient (helping us keep the site free to use)
+We do not use cookies to:
+- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
+- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
+- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
+- Pay sales commissions
+You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
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+## Log Files
+## Granting us permission to use cookies
+W3Schools uses IP addresses to diagnose server problems, analyze trends, administer the site, and gather demographic information for aggregate use.
+If your browser is adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to deactivate cookies, you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that your browser will not work as you would expect on most web pages.
+IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
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+W3Schools only shares aggregated statistics with partners and advertisers. This information can not identify any individual person.
+## Social Website Cookies
+W3Schools has standard security measures in place to protect the loss and misuse of sensitive information.
+Cookies are used by social websites (like Facebook and Twitter) so you can easily Like or share our content with the sharing buttons on our site.
+The privacy implications on this will vary from the different social websites and are dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
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+## Cookies
+## Visitor Statistics Cookies
+W3Schools does not use cookies, but since we use ad companies to display ads, these ads might contain cookies.
+This helps us to continuously improve our website. These analytics programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
+We use:
+- Google Analytics - [Privacy Policy](http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/) owned by Google
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+## Advertising Cookies
+Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.
+You can learn more about online advertising, or opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at [http://www.youronlinechoices.com](http://www.youronlinechoices.com/).
+**Note:** Opting out of advertising cookies will disable ads, they will just no longer be tailored to you.
+We use:
+- DoubleClick - [Privacy Policy](http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/) owned by Google
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+## Advertisements
+We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specializing in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalize the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working.
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+## Turning Cookies Off
+You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Your browser help function will tell you how. Doing so however will limit the functionality of most of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of websites.
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 ## Links
 W3Schools contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. This privacy document applies only to W3Schools.
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