MONARCH BUTTERFLY INFORMATION   .  SITE PRIVACY POLICY As the owner of this Monarch Butterfly  website, I am very concerned about protecting your personal information (as well as my own!) while using the World Wide Web.  Many people mistakenly assume that they are anonymous as they browse websites, but various pieces of information are usually left behind.  You can minimize information revealed by visiting legitimate sites, understanding their privacy policy, and only supplying the minimal amount of personal information.  To guard against a fradulent website attempting to steal your private information, you must insure your anti-virus and firewall protection is adequate, up to date, and on all the time.   Some information is automatically collected for legitimate analysis purposes by all web sites, including this one.  This data is used to generate statistics about the site, often for marketing purposes, to better understand its popularity and which areas or pages are the most favored.  As a website owner, we can analyze this data, and make site improvements to increase popularity and performance.   The information automatically collected from your computer, using cookies, without your knowledge, may include the following: - Which pages of the website your computer visited, how long on a given page, and if you came from a search engine or directly. - Your IP address, assigned by your internet provider, tells the geographical location (city, state & country). - Your computer operating system (windows, mac, etc.), internet software (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.), and screen resolution.  This information helps design the website for optimum viewing settings. - We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.  The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on your browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.  If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, visit Network Advertising Initiative.   There you may view advertiser's cookies installed on your computer, and if desired remove them and also opt out of the use of the DART cookie on your computer. Here is a link to the Google Privacy Center where you can also "opt out of the cookie for the Google content network and DoubleClick ad serving". We are not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web site, or the information or content contained therein. Often links to other sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website.  Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including websites which have a link on our website, is subject to that site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding. Monarch Butterfly does not sell products directly, nor maintain a mailing list.  Your personal information is not asked for by this site.  By using our web site you consent to our collection and use of information provided by cookies as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. For information about this site e-mail: jim@monarch-butterfly.info