• The types of personal information TalkMilitary.com collects about you through the Forum Registration process;
• How that information is collected;
• The purposes for which the information is collected;
• The types of organizations to which the information is disclosed;
• The scope of what information is disclosed and for what purpose; and
• The choices and means by which members may limit its use and disclosure.

• Whether and how certain personal information you provide is used (where such use is unrelated to the uses for which you originally disclosed it); and
• Whether and the manner in which a third party uses certain personal information you provide (where such use is unrelated to the uses for which you originally disclosed it).

• Takes reasonable precautions to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction;
• Implements reasonable policies and procedures to ensure that personal information is kept only for the purposes for which it has been gathered;
• Uses reasonable measures to ensure that we have accurately and completely recorded the personal information you have provided;
• Provides you reasonable access to your personal information as well as procedures for correcting or modifying that information where appropriate; and
• Ensuring the ability for members to report to TalkMilitary.com any alleged misuse of that information.

• Active Duty Military and Guard/Reserves, including family members;
• Veterans and their family/friends;
• Supporters of the Military Servicemen and women;
• People interested in Military News.

    TalkMilitary.com gets to know you primarily through the information you provide to us when signing up or registering on the Forums. The information you provide is nothing more than basic contact information along with your Name or "Screen Name".  When you join TalkMilitary.com, we ask that you provide and maintain accurate, complete and updated information.

    Once you have joined TalkMilitary.com we will not contact you without request with the following exceptions:

• Your TalkMilitary.com e-mail notifications for post replies and New Private Messages
• Membership wide TalkMilitary.com Newsletter mailings. These are normally sent out 2 time per month.

TalkMilitary.com does use persistent cookies (persistent tokens that pass information back and forth from the client machine to the server) in order to make the site easier to use. TalkMilitary.com DOES NOT keep a database of information obtained from these cookies.

You can choose not to accept these cookies and still use the site, but it may take you longer to fill out the same information repeatedly and clicking on the banners will not take you to the correct link. Refer to the help information in your browser software for instructions on how to disable cookies.

For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes (example below). This web server uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document:

xxx.yyy.com - - [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500]
"GET /sitename/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16704
Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com

xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12) -- this is the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case, (....com) the requester is coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requestor's method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.

[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] -- this is the date and time of the request

"GET /sitename/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" -- this is the location of the requested file

200 -- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled

16704 -- this is the size of the requested file in bytes

Mozilla 3.0 -- this identifies the type of browser software used to access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing the pages

www.altavista.digital.com -- this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how people find this site

Requests for other types of documents use similar information. No other user-identifying information is collected.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction.