Privacy on this site

Thank you for asking about privacy on this web site. This page lists the kinds of information collected about visitors to sciencefriday.com and what it is used for.

As with any web site, all "hits" to pages on our site are logged. However, we analyze this information only in group form, to tell us, for example, how many people viewed a certain page during a certain week. We do not track site visitors from page to page, or record the kinds of information specific visitors view on our site.

We don't require any information from you in order to browse our archives, find out about the show and our broadcast stations, or listen online. For full access to all the stories and information on the site, we ask that you register, providing an email address, zip code, country of origin, gender, and occupation. We ask for this registration information in order to get a better sense of just who our listeners are, and what they find valuable in our programming. But don't worry -- we promise that we'll never give out your personal info to anyone else. At all. Period. We won't share it. We won't sell it. It is used solely by the staff of Science Friday, and we're the only ones that have access to it. You can view and edit this information at any time by clicking this link while you're logged in.

In order to use mailing lists on this site, you'll need to give us a working e-mail address. We will not share that address with anyone, for any reason, without asking you first. We promise.

Any messages you post in message boards or blog comment areas on www.sciencefriday.com are public. Any information in them is available to all other site visitors.

We do use cookies (small identifying text files that reside on your computer) in some parts of our site. We use these cookies to help remember your preferences from visit to visit and to allow certain site features such as polls, calendars, and message boards to function more efficiently. We do not use the cookies to track your viewing habits on our site.

Feel free to contact us (scifri@sciencefriday.com) if you have further questions or concerns about your privacy on sciencefriday.com.