Advertising & Privacy
To help offset the costs of maintaining this website, this website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
For every purchase at Amazon.com that you make when you start your Amazon.com shopping by clicking on the Amazon link at left or selecting from one of the Amazon deals below, Amazon pays APlusPhysics.com a small referral fee. These fees are used to offset costs of web hosting, forum licensing, and further development. Your costs do not go up when you use this link, but the referral fees make a big difference in keeping this site running. Thank you for your support!
In addition, portions of APlusPhysics.com are supported by the Google AdSense advertising system. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to the website. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site as well as other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site or subscribe to our blogs. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name or e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on portions of this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Certain video tutorials include short question sets which collect your name and answers to a few brief questions to verify the video was watched. These are completely optional and are used for tracking of student viewing in specific courses.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used to send periodic emails. The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime in the forums section by logging into their account and going to the 'My Profile' page.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
This policy was last modified on 9/2/11.