The BAD WORD Privacy Policy

Basically I despise Privacy Policies as they remind me of Do Not Swim signs in front of alligator ponds. If you are unable to realize that swimming with alligators is a bad idea then perhaps you should avoid the Internet as well. However…..

All websites hosted on my personal server or managed by myself or associates are owned by me, Darren Popham. Not the other Darren Popham’s of the world, as in the UK or Hong Kong, but by myself currently enjoying Florida and frequent visits to Disney World.

I, along with any number of content contributors that I have invited to work on my sites, offer a wide variety of content and services that include items like gathering hacker information, personal thoughts, or services such as my QR code background generator for video conferencing (all of which are subject to change or go away without any notice).

When you visit my site you voluntarily provide me with an assortment of information. This includes items like your IP address, your browser type, the pages on my site that you visit and much more. It is NOT my responsibility to itemize the information that you voluntarily give me. No. If this concerns you then I humbly suggest going away and learning how the Internet works before grumbling at me. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to control what information you voluntarily give to me. It’s not up to me to police your information. You’re the one giving it to me. Hell, you could have just as easily emailed me all the same information, and then what? Do I become responsible for what you sent to me? Not bloody likely.

Think of it as if you are the village idiot shouting in the street about your personal hygiene for everyone to hear. Even though I might want to forget all about your hemorrhoid problems, once you shout all about it, there is no getting that genie back in the bottle.

As well in the operation of my sites I may put cookies on your system. Heaven forbid I leverage how the Internet works to provide services that rely on cookies to remember what you were doing, but alas in order for this thing called the Internet to work properly, sometimes cookies are used. If you don’t like this then turn off the damned cookies yourself. I might also suggest revisiting learning how the Internet works before having a fit over cookies. Would I expect you to swim if you’ve never been taught? No I wouldn’t. Should you use the Internet without knowing how it works? Absolutely not, but it is not my place to tell you to BAD WORD off and go away if you are not informed on how it works. It’s your choice to dive in.

What I can say though about the data I collect and the cookies I may provide is that I make no money off of selling anything to other parties. I may provide information free of charge, but I do not sell it (unless someone wants to buy it – let me know and I’ll happily update this policy).

However you may still be wondering what the hell I do with any data I do collect.

Well, I don’t really need to tell you since you voluntarily gave it to me, but nonetheless, I’ll explain.

I track web accesses on my network for security purposes. I use it to determine what traffic is legitimate or not and whether the traffic is from some BAD WORD user or country attempting to break in. I record and retain in a database the data that falls into these bad actor categories and I will use it in any way I see fit. I don’t care about legitimate use and as such I ignore that data. The stored illegitimate access data though can be used for many purposes, including generating iptables/ipset rules, posting intimate details on my site about the user, or even printing the user data on toilet paper to wipe my BAD WORD as an expression of how much I love them.

Data collected and used for blocking though does mean to imply a “hacker” was attempting to break in. It could also mean a bot that ignores my robots.txt directives, or a spammer attempting to post crap in the comments section, or also it could be a normal user from a country I banned outright. I do feel bad for the user in that latter example, but the number of other BAD WORD from that country gave me no choice but to just ban them all. It’s too bad that bad actors ruined it for everyone.

So by visiting my websites, you agree to all terms outlined on this page. Everything you voluntarily give me is mine to do with as I wish. If you don’t want to give me anything, then solve that problem yourself. You have the tools so make use of them.

This policy is also subject to change at anytime without any notice whatsoever to anyone. If you are a policy junkie then I might suggest bookmarking and reloading this policy regularly. Why you would want to do that though is beyond me because if I never have to revisit this policy ever again then I am a happy camper.

Cheers, and have a good day 🙂