Privacy Policy
Here at Dharma Lounge, The privacy of our visitors is important to us.
Dharma Lounge will never sell, rent or share your personal information with a 3rd party, especially your email addresses and phone numbers, without your express permission, or unless we are required by law. We recognize your privacy and personal information are important and need to be safeguarded.
The following explains the type of personal information we receive and collect and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. Ever! Dharma Lounge believes in space, not spam!
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features in the future, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on dharmalounge.net to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited or content searched for (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.)
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect your interaction with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs in the future, such as logging into forums or accounts.
So please explore, knowing you are in a safe environment and that your privacy is a priority.
