Privacy Statement

Definitions are taken from the Terms and Conditions. The Privacy Statement is also included in the Terms and Conditions under number 3.

The Editors may amend the Privacy Statement from time to time (date of last amendment: December 16, 2008). You can always see the latest version by clicking on Privacy Statement. We advise you to check the Privacy Statement regularly and, in any event, whenever you provide us with personal data. For the privacy policy of the respective service providers used by TDT, as applicable due to your visit to TDT, reference is made to the respective publications on www.typepad.com (TypePad powers TDT) and www.google.com (Google facilitates the search engine on TDT). The privacy policy of these service providers is applicable due to your visit to TDT. The Editors are not responsible for the privacy policy and/or for the use of your - personal - data by these service providers, nor for the privacy policy and/or for the use of your - personal - data by any external website to which TDT provides a link.

When you visit TDT some data relating to you will be registered, including the Internet Protocol address used by you to visit TDT and search queries submitted on TDT (if any). The Editors will, however, not use this information to identify you personally. The Editors will obtain personal data - such as your name, your address and/or your e-mail address - if you add a comment on TDT and/or send the Editors a message, either directly or through TDT and either by e-mail or otherwise. If you add a comment on TDT and/or send the Editors a message, the Editors may use personal data for the purpose of responding to your comment or message. The Editors have the intention to respond to most reader messages, but will ignore spam, obsenity, ad hominem attacks, or the like. Unless you inform the Editors otherwise, the Editors may quote from your message on TDT but will not refer to you by name on TDT. Although comments and reader messages are moderated and may be edited or deleted, the Editors bear no responsibility for comments or reader messages placed on TDT.

By visiting TDT - and entering content, for example by submitting comments - you may receive cookies; most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent (however, some features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled). The Information, including any personal information and/or comments and/or messages intended by you to be placed on TDT, may be accessible worldwide to internet search engines; by sending to TDT and/or the Editors any personal information and/or comments and/or messages intended by you to be placed on TDT, you accept that your personal information and/or comments and/or messages placed on TDT may be accessible worldwide to internet search engines.

The Editors may use any of the above - personal - data to the extent required for proper management of TDT, to improve TDT and/or for statistical analysis. You hereby provide an irrevocable, world-wide, non-exclusive and transferable license to the Editors to do any of the foregoing. Insofar applicable, the foregoing also applies to trackbacks to external websites. The Editors will take appropriate security measures to protect personal reader data that they hold against loss or any form of unlawful processing. You have the right to request the Editors to inform you of what personal data they hold relating to you and to request that such personal data are corrected, supplemented, deleted or blocked. Please address any requests for information/changes to the Editors.