Privacy Statement and Terms of Use

I know this is just a hobby site, but it is important that you understand our privacy policy and terms of use regarding Duboisi.com and the information, text or binary, which are contributed by the people who use it. Please read it carefully and respect other peoples work.

This Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices for the entire Duboisi.com web site, including the Duboisi.com forum.

If you have any inquiry about our privacy policy, please contact: privacy@duboisi.com.

Duboisi.com is committed to respecting your privacy rights when visiting any page contained within its server.

To protect your information, Duboisi.com has adopted the guidelines outlined below on 04-29-03.

Information Collected While visiting Duboisi.com:

We may ask you to register and/or provide information for the sole purpose of interacting with the site. Such information may include, but is not limited to, your selected username and e-mail address. On any page that collects information, we will specifically describe what information is required in order to provide you with the access you have requested. This information is held in strict confidence and will not be shared with ANYONE without your consent.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is an element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. This element of data is a piece of text, not a program. The site can only access the information from a cookie sent by the site. We cannot access other cookies sent by other web sites or the information contained therein. Additionally, we cannot learn your e-mail address or any other information about you through the use of a cookie. The only way we would learn such information is if you specifically and voluntarily submit that information to us, for example, through the Duboisi.com forum registration system.

Why does the site use cookies?

Duboisi.com uses cookies to track usage of the site and further personalize your experience when you are visiting the site. By tracking usage, we can best determine what features of the site best serve the users.

What benefits do I receive from cookies?

Overall, the use of cookies helps to give you a more personalized experience at the site. The information is used to keep our site fresh and relevant to you the user. Cookies also allow you to avoid retyping your e-mail address and password each time you access the site.

May I decline to accept a cookie?

You may decline to accept cookies sent by the site by selecting an option on your browser to reject cookies. However, some portions of the site may require registration in order to access those areas. In such cases, we ask that you register and provide us with basic information on our registration page, or sign in if previously registered. Cookies enable our server to know that you are a registered user; and will eliminate the need for you to log in each time you access our site. In addition, our registration system may require that you accept the cookies from the site in order to access that portion of the site. Other sites linked to the site may also send cookies; however we do not control such activities.

What happens with the information collected in a cookie?

The information stored in a cookie is used to identify you to our server, to allow us to personalize your experience on the site, and to serve content and communications that may be of interest to you.

IP Addresses:

Duboisi.com does log IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes and to determine site usage.

Use of Information:

We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share information with ANYONE except as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe that we can enhance your experience on our site with the information you share with us. We use information about you to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and to personalize the site's content, layout, and services. We may also use information such as your e-mail address or mailing address, to contact you regarding site information, to respond to an inquiry from you regarding the information that we have collected or respond to your comments and suggestions.

Duboisi.com will not sell your personal information or user database to outside companies.

As part of your experience on our site, you may receive newsletters or emails from us related to Duboisi.com. While we believe these communications will enhance your experience at our site, you will at all times be able to opt out from receiving these communications by requesting that your profile be deleted from our database.

Party Collecting the Information

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose any information to other parties, whether through, for example, the Duboisi.com help forum, chat rooms, links, or the like, through third party services offered on or through the site or through other web sites throughout the Internet, different policies may apply and Duboisi.com shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such information.

Duboisi.com does not necessarily directly endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which the site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Duboisi.com hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of third parties.

Opting-Out

You may choose to "opt-out" altogether from providing information to us by not registering on the site and thereby not providing information. You maynot be able to use any services we provide or gain access to certain areas of the site.

General Information:

This is a hobby site providing information on fish. All images are property of Duboisi.com or their respected contributers, and are either used with permission or a reference on the image or page itself. If you find an unauthorized copywrited image on this site, let me know and it will be removed. Contributed images within the forum may aslo be displayed in the gallery section and other areas of this site. © 2001-2003 Duboisi.com.

Unauthorized Duplication of Duboisi.com owned/created images:

Duplication or use of any content from this WEB SITE for commercial purposes or in any manner likely to give the impression of official approval by Duboisi.com, is prohibited unless permission is granted by Duboisi.com.

Unauthorized Duplication of Submitted Articles:

Members who submit articles or content to Duboisi.com do so with the agreement that Duboisi.com becomes the barer of such information, and such information then falls under Duboisi.com copyright protection. Duplication or use of any Member Submitted Text Content is prohibited unless permission is granted from BOTH the origional creator AND Duboisi.com. Parties using such information without permission may be held financially liable to both the orgional creator and Duboisi.com.

Unauthorized Duplication of User Submitted Images:

Duplication or use of any Member Submitted Images is prohibited for commercial purposes without the permission of the origional creator. Duboisi.com will not enforce member copyrights to images they contribute and share through any of the Duboisi.com image upload areas. By uploading an image, the user agrees not to hold Duboisi.com liable for any copyright infringements affected by unauthorized duplication from its website. In most cases, information about the persons who upload personal or shared images will not be included for these reasons. In other words, if someone duplicates and uses your submitted image(s) being stored on our server, you may not hold Duboisi.com liable for any infringements. It is recommended that you "stamp" any image you upload with your name and copyright information to give you due credit for creating it.

Stored Content Policy:

Duboisi.com and its creators, moderators, administrators, and controllers reserves the right to refuse, reject, delete, intercept or otherwise edit any written data or information located on it's server, wheather reguarded public or private.

Duboisi.com and its creators, moderators, administrators, and controllers reserve the right to refuse membership, ban, delete, stealth, or report any registered user of Duboisi.com for any reason it sees fit.

Thats it!