Information Automatically Logged

We use Google Analytics to determine various demographics of website use. For example, your Browser version to assist us in providing a functional web-site suited to the majority of users.
None of this information is forwarded to any other party.

Advertisers

We use outside advertising companies (mainly Google Adsense) from time to time to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. We do not use cookies in other parts of our Web site, but cookies received with banner ads may be collected by our ad company (where applicable), and we do not have access to this information. You can always manage cookies by switching them off via the privacy options in your browser if this concerns you.
However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Specifically with relation to Google Adsense - "third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on this website".
Google Adsense Terms and Conditions can be found here.

Personal Information

This Web site does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted (other than noted below).
Since we do not collect any personal information on this Web site, we do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes.
The only minor variation to this is in the use of the Mailing List for the site newsletter where you are requested (on an opt-in and totally optional basis) to provide your email address for the sole purpose of sending you the Newsletter. Your email address is not used for any other purpose. The Mailing List is maintained by Topica or you may subscribe directly to the TBSNews Newsletter provided via this website. Refer here.

External Links

This site contains many links to other sites. The Black Stump Pty Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Please read our disclaimer.

Children's Guidelines

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

1. We will not collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
2. We will not knowingly give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
3. When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
   1. Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
   2. Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes.
4. We will not entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
5. We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request.
6. We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.