Please be assured that your privacy is of the utmost importance to me. This site collects no personally identifiable information about you unless you choose to provide that information.
For each HTTP request (which is what your web browser generates when you view a page or part of a page from a website) received, this site collects and stores only the following information, in what is called a log file:
- the date and time
- the originating Internet Protocol (IP) address (this address can refer to a specific computer; more frequently, commercial Internet providers use a temporary IPA which does not link to a specific computer)
- the type of browser and operating system used (if provided by the browser)
- the URL of the referring page (if provided by the browser)
- the object requested
- completion status of the request
- pages visited
The information above is also collected by Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses first-party persistent cookies, which the government classifies as Tier 2 persistent cookies. Tier 2 persistent cookies do not collect any personally identifiable information, but only those metrics listed above. In addition, persistent cookies can identify return visitors to our website by setting a small file in internet web browsers. Unless you first opt-out (see below), the Google Analytics code used will automatically set a persistent cookie in the browser of the computer you are using to access our website.
Traffic statistics for this website are only reported anonymously and in the aggregate, and no information provided by Google Analytics is traceable to any specific individual. This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of this website and to help me make my pages more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing web traffic to determine the types of devices and browsers that view Digging’s web pages most often and the level of demand for specific pages and topics of interest.
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