(Please do not confuse our organization with the independent film project that goes by the name "Radio Free Babylon." We are in no way associated with that low-budget and heretofore unfinished movie. This name was registered to us in 2000 and incorporated in Missouri that same year. If the film project known as "Radio Free Babylon" ever gets released, we will sue its creators and distributors for defamation. If there was a movie released called "Xerox," don't you think the Xerox corporation would have something to say about that? We rest our case.)

PRIVACY STATEMENT

HEADACHES WILL ENSUE AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM

We used this heinous font color to keep you awake while you read this incredibly boring stuff. If you have a headcahe when you're done reading it, that's your own fault.

Radio Free Babylon™, LLC PRIVACY POLICY
(Last Updated December 24, 2004)

Radio Free Babylon™ ("Radio Free Babylon™," "we," "us" or "our") operates a Web site located at www.radiofreebabylon.com (the "Site") from which users can gather information concerning news and services provided by Radio Free Babylon™ (the "Radio Free Babylon™ Services"). This Radio Free Babylon™ Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you access the Site and when you use the Radio Free Babylon™ Services. Are you asleep yet?

Information Collection and Use

Radio Free Babylon™ receives a variety of "personally identifiable information."

Radio Free Babylon™ also asks that you provide your email address on the "contact us" section of the Site so that we are able to respond to your question(s) by email. You have the option of also providing information regarding your name, demographics (such as your state and country of residency), operating system, browser, Internet service provider ("ISP"), connection type and email program that you are using. If you are so inclined, you may also tell us how much money you make, where you keep the spare key to your house, and what hours of the day are best to find said house vacant.

Radio Free Babylon™ also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP Address and the page you requested. Your IP address is not linked to your email address or Radio Free Babylon™. But we like to keep that stuff handy, just in case you have been co-pted by some secret government agency and are working on their behalf to try to hack our server.

Radio Free Babylon™ uses your email address for the following purposes:

To contact you about the Radio Free Babylon™ Services or the Site. Yeah right. Like that's gonna happen.

To notify you when you receive a Radio Free Babylon™ email message.

To communicate with you concerning problems or malfunctions you report. Maybe.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Radio Free Babylon™ will not sell or rent your email address, name, mailing address, or other supplied information to anyone. Radio Free Babylon™ will not share your email address, first or last name, mailing address, or other received information to anyone, except as stated below:

We may disclose personally identifiable information about you as legally required in order for us to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes. So like, if the law is after you and they make us rat you out, we will do everything we can to try to keep you hidden, but if it comes down to "Tell us his/her email addressor you're going to jail," well, what would you do? So it might be wise to keep a few email addresses, and a few disguises in the trunk of your car.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Radio Free Babylon™ may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Site. Something big and ugly that you can't miss. Like flashing neon green font or something.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, complaints, or suggestions, send an email to webmaster@radiofreebabylon.com. We will likely ignore them. It's just better that way. You let your skin get too thin out here on the web and they will rip you to shreds.

IP Addresses

When your Web browser or email application requests a Web page from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where the requested information should be sent. This is called your computer's "IP address." (IP stands for "Internet protocol.") For most users accessing the Internet from a dial-up ISP, the IP address may be different every time you log on.

Information Collection and Use Practices

Radio Free Babylon™ receives your IP address each time you view a Web page from the Site. Your IP address is not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information. But it's still sort of creepy, isn't it? Do you feel watched?

Your IP address may be used for various purposes, including:

To diagnose service or technology problems reported by you that are associated with your IP address. And in most cases, we will tell you something like, "Shut your machine off and then turn it back on again." This is a time-honored tech trick, and is sometimes referred to as "logic lock power refresh."

To estimate the total number of users visiting the Site from specific locales, countries or regions of the world. That way we can better understand why, say, the jobs page is so popular in Indonesia while the broadcast page is a huge hit in Wyoming.

Log Files

When a Web page on the Site is requested, that request (including the date and time) is logged on our servers with information including the IP address of the computer that requested the page. Is that cool or what? But it is a huge file and we have to archive it frequently. It can be quite a pain.

We use log files for debugging and troubleshooting purposes. IP addresses and access times are not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information, but it still gves you that creepy feeling of being watched, doesn't it?

Cookies

If you request certain services from us, Radio Free Babylon™ may then attempt to set cookies on your computer and later access those cookies. You can normally refuse cookies by setting preferences in your browser. You do not need to accept cookies in order to use the Radio Free Babylon™ Services. But if you refuse cookies, grandma will cry.A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Web site's computers and then stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie cannot obtain information from your hard drive, destroy files, or transmit viruses. We suggest milk with your cookies.

Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser, if your browser's preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser normally only permits a Web site to access cookies that it has previously sent to you, but not the cookies sent to you by other sites. That is so confusing. Nevermind it.

Choices About Cookies

You can normally configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)

If you reject all cookies, you will still be able to use the Radio Free Babylon™ Services.

Cookies are used only as an option selected by you that allows us to recall your email address from the cookie that we sent to your computer.

Data Storage/User Information

All Radio Free Babylon™ account information (including names, mailing addresses) and content of email messages are stored on multiple redundant disk storage systems. No removable offline copies or backups are made. Seriously.

If you request deletion of your email address or any other identifiable information, your information will be deactivated and removed from our user registration database within 30 days. But first we need to make a copy of it and store it in a vault, that's why it takes 30 days.In reviewing the information above, please keep in mind that Radio Free Babylon™ cannot and does not assume any responsibility for any actions or omissions of third parties, including other Site users, including the manner in which they might use information received either from Radio Free Babylon™ or independently. In other words, we are totally blameless in all things no matter what.

And we're not even sure why we have all this stuff on here. We dont wanna know who you are if you don't wanna be known. We aren't salesmen. We hate salesmen. We won't intrude, and we don't expect you too either. This is all CYA legal nonsense that absolves us somehow if anything should ever go wrong We don't like it, but it's required these days. Sorry. Stay sweet. Don't ever change. Have a great summer.