This document sets forth the privacy policies of ScienceBookGuide.com as of July 1, 1999.

Our basic policy is that we do not use specific personal information for mass-marketing efforts of our own, nor do ever we sell or trade such information with other companies. We do use anonymous aggregate visitor information to market and promote the site, and to tailor the content of the site to visitor demand.

If you send us an e-mail, we respond to that e-mail and all subsequent e-mails initiated by you. We reserve the right to stop responding to abusive, hateful, or generally creepy communications for our own protection, and to ban you from our mail server in extreme cases.

In some cases, we may initiate e-mail to you on a specific topic which you have indicated is of special interest to you: e.g. an answer to a question we couldn't answer the first time around, an announcement that we've reviewed a book you requested, etc.

If you win our "Science Eyes" contest, we will ask you for a mailing address to which we can send your prize. After we send the prize, we erase the mailing address. This is the only case in which we ask for a mailing address.

If you ask to be put on our update mailing list, we will keep your name in a permanent file and send you multiple periodic e-mails notifying you of each update to the website. If you wish to be removed from this list at any time, an e-mail to editor@sciencebookguide.com will do it.

If you choose to post to our forum, we ask that you either use your real name or the pseudonym "Anonymous Coward". However, you are not required to give an e-mail address or any other information that would make it possible to seek you out in the real world.