The Public Guide and its advertisers are committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users.
Collection of personally identifiable information for memberships
Unless you register yourself The Public Guide does not collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your email address, name, age, etc. To register yourself is optional. You can access most of the content of The Public Guide anonymously without registering yourself.
You must be 18 years or older before you can register yourself. Your personally identifiable information is not sold to third parties.
Your personally identifiable information will be used to facilitate the communication between you and other members of The Public Guide . You can determine yourself how if and how much personal information you want to share with the other visitors of The Public Guide .
Collection of non-personally identifiable information
The Public Guide does obtain some types of non-personally identifiable information such as the ip-address you use to connect to the Internet, your browser type, or the type of computer operating system you use (Macintosh or Windows, for example). This information is used to improve the website by – for example – analyzing which pages are popular and which pages need to be improved. The collected information is not sold to third-parties.
Usage of cookies by The Public Guide
The Public Guide uses cookies to store information about the country and city from which you are surfing. This information is used to customise the website – content as well as advertisements – according to your geo-graphical location.
The Public Guide uses cookies to remember you screen name when commenting on news articles and when joining the chartroom. Without these cookies you would need to re-type your screen name all the time.
In all cases you can stop this usage of cookies by The Public Guide by disabling cookies in your browser. In the help section of your browser you will also find information about how to remove existing cookies from The Public Guide from your computer.
In general you can use The Public Guide without cookies although it might reduce the user-friendliness of the website.