• We will store a harmless cookie on your browser, if you use our message boards. This keeps track of what messages are new since your last visit, and remembers your forum name if you used it for a post. That's all, no "evil cookies". You can disable cookies in your browser and still post - you'll just have to remember your last-seen messages when you read, and re-enter your name when you post. LisaFitness does not use cookies on any other portion of our site.
  
  
• Third-party application providers, advertisers, or information providers may use cookies and may have different privacy policies. All such third-party providers have clickable links or images on our site; please visit their sites to review their own privacy policies. We only use providers whom we believe have acceptable policies, but the specifics of their privacy policies will differ from ours.
  
  
• Neither your e-mail address or other personally-identifiable information is ever disclosed or sold by us. But if you post with a valid e-mail address, either on our message boards or in our guestbook, someone else's SPAMbot might come by any time and "harvest" email addresses from the webpages. Not our fault. Many internet users, including the webmaster and site owner here, set up alternate, valid email addresses through various web-mail accounts, in order to have a "public", throwaway address to use when posting, to minimize SPAM coming to your primary e-mail address from this sort of activity. We recommend this for your posts to LisaFitness and other message boards, if you want to protect your address from SPAM. We also recommend that you visit CAUCE, the Committee Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, if you want more information about protecting yourself from SPAM.
  
  
• If you explicitly ask a question in a forum, the site owner, staff, webmaster, or other posters may take that as an invitation to reply to you by e-mail. That is not to be considered Unsolicited e-mail. Participation in the message boards, if posting with a valid e-mail address, means you have explicitly agreed to receive mail in response to that post. If you don't want to get a reply, don't post an address.
  
  
• Same applies if you use the automated Pilates schedule link - if you just send the blank e-mail which that link generates, only a machine responds. The site owner gets a copy of what you sent, though - so if you ask a question, a person might read and answer, since you're inviting a reply by writing a comment or question.
  
  
• We won't put you on any list for ongoing mailings, though. Even if you did leave an address in a post, or use the automated response links. Any mailing lists or announcements or any other mass mailing will always only be in response to you explicitly opting-in to our mailing list. Presently, we do not have any mailing lists, but if we do start any, they will be on an exclusively opt-in basis.
  
  
• The same as any other site, our website software logs the IP address and hostname of your computer, and basic information about your browser software. We never sell or disclose this information.
  
  
• We also use software to help us analyze how you found the site, what pages you visited, and what type of system and screen resolution you have. This includes a 3rd-party tracking application to help us learn about who visits our site. This tells us aggregate information about what platforms people use, and which search engines and other websites helped them find our site. If we start getting lots of visitors using Netscape 6 on Linux, we want to make sure the site works ok on that platform. If you are using Macintosh, we want you to enjoy the site - so this information helps the webmaster design and test the site. We use this to improve the experience and content for you. None of this information is sold or used for marketing by us. However, some of it, including recent visitors' IP addresses or host server names, is visible to anyone who clicks on the "planet logo" at the bottom of our home page. The privacy policy from this provider, extreme-dm.com, can be found here. There is no personally-identifiable information gathered through either LisaFitness or this site analysis provider.
  
  
• IP addresses of our message board posters are logged and stored with each post, in our posting database (in addition to our web server logs.) These are never displayed to site visitors, and there are no tracking applications (other than standard web server logging) running on our message board pages. We reserve the right to maintain these records indefinitely, and alternately, to discard them at any time. We do not guarantee a minimum or maximum retention period of this information.
  
  
• Identification of a particular poster's IP address will only be released to legal authorities with due process of law. IP addresses may be shared with other Internet Service Providers as part of an investigation into abusive posting or e-mails, or to resolve technical problems.

Policy as described above last updated May 14, 2001 from original April 24, 2001 version. Principal changes were to disclose more information about our third-party content providers and site analysis tools, provide more information about fighting SPAM, and clarify the retention period of IP information. No actual change to our operational policy.