Folly Publishing, producer of Fogie’s Follies® and its related content and service sites, believes that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. We know you're concerned about protecting your privacy online. At Fogie's Follies®, we treat your personal information (especially payment information) with the highest standards of safety, security, and confidentiality.

Information Gathered

We don't collect personal information without your knowledge. We don't sell, rent, or give your personal information to unrelated third parties without your prior permission.

This policy explains what information we collect about you and how we use that information. We also outline the choices you have.

Fogie's Follies® Store and Fogie’s Follies® Subscriptions

By shopping at fogiesfollies.com or subscribing to fogiesfollies.com, you accept the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

In order to ship products to you, we need to collect information about you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, home phone number and credit card information. We use your e-mail address as a login for the store, as well as a way to send you a confirmation of your order. If we have a question about your order, we may contact you by e-mail or by phone. For example, we may call you to verify your credit card information on a large purchase. We do this for your protection.

You can change your personal information at any time by clicking the "my account" button and login with your e-mail address and password. There, you can modify your account information.

Cookies

The Fogie's Follies store does not require the use of cookies. However, we offer it as a convenient way for our store to confirm your identity and keep items in your shopping cart if you leave the site.

If you do not want to use cookies to login, simply choose to login manually as your login option when setting up your account or while modifying your account information. For more information about cookies, click here.

The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Fogie's Follies cannot and does not control these cookies.

Security

Fogie's Follies® pledges a safe and worry-free shopping experience. We use the industry standard for Internet security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 128-bit) encryption to protect your personal data and ensure that it is transmitted securely.

Traffic Data

Each time a visitor comes to a Folly Publishing site, information is collected to improve the overall quality of Folly Publishing sites. Folly Publishing collects the visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from netscape.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to a Folly Publishing site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).

In addition to collecting these types of information, Folly Publishing’s advertisement delivery system collects aggregate search terms for internal reporting and targeted advertising. Folly Publishing's advertisement delivery system collects visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising.

Folly Publishing also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flow at Folly Publishing sites (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from and how traffic flows within the sites). Folly Publishing may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. Folly Publishing will not disclose your individual identity or personal data. When Folly Publishing does present aggregated information to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.

E-mail Services

Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence with the consumers of Folly Publishing will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list.

As an opt-in feature only, we may use your email address to send you newsletters about new products or special offers.

Copyright

Fogie's Follies® is a humor electronic periodical published by Folly Publishing.

Fogie's Follies® uses invented names in all its stories, except in cases when public figures are being satirized or when permission has been granted. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental.

The content of this web-site -- graphics, text and other elements -- is made up of original material, items submitted by readers and content considered, to the extent of the publisher’s knowledge, to be in the public domain. The publisher strives to give proper credit to the originator of all content where known. If you believe this site contains material for which you own the copyright and/or credit has not been duly given to the originator, please contact the publisher at .

© Copyright 2002-2004 by Folly Publishing except where noted, and may not be reprinted or retransmitted in whole or in part without the expressed written consent of the publisher.

Fogie's Follies® is a trademark of Folly Publishing. All rights reserved.

Fogie's Follies® “R” and “NC17” versions are not intended for readers under 18 years of age.