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Concerns about internet security and privacy

If you are concerned about sending personal details over the web then the following information may be useful.

Email address

This website contains links that prepare your email programme to send an email. Sending an email from one of the email links will reveal your email address, and perhaps other personal information like your name depending on how you have set up your email programme.

Personal information

This website does not ask for personal information like age, gender, income, interests and so on. This website does not ask for credit card, bank or other personal financial details.

Cookies and user tracking

No user tracking methods are used on this website. However, when you connect to this website the server will record your IP address. IP addresses are routinely logged by webservers. An IP address may reveal the geographical location and internet service provider being used to access this website. It is not possible to identify you personally from this information. Other information logged when you visit this website comprises browser type, referring page, entry page, exit page, destination page, date and time.

This site does not use cookies for tracking or advertising purposes. However, if you are using a shared computer, such as within a family-setting, library, school, office or internet café, other people may be able to determine what web sites you have visited. To maintain the confidentiality of everyone using the site, and to keep your visits private we recommend that you learn how to erase your internet tracks after visiting this and other sites.

There are a number of "tracks" left on a computer (private or public) after browsing the Internet. These are Temporary Internet Files (and/or Cache in Netscape), Cookies, and History (and location bar in Netscape). All of these items can be erased or deleted so that the average computer user cannot determine what the previous user has been viewing. The following instructions outline how to erase your Internet tracks in most versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape.

Internet Explorer:
Deleting Temporary Internet Files:
  1. Open Internet Explorer (IE)
  2. Select Tools
  3. Under Tools, select Internet Options
  4. In Internet Options, under the General Tab in the Temporary Internet Files section, select Delete Files (delete both Temporary Internet Files and Offline Content)
  5. Under the General Tab in Temporary Internet Files section, select Settings
  6. In Settings, in the Check for newer versions of stored pages section, select Every visit to the page

To Delete Cookies:
  7. Follow steps 1-3 above
  8. In Internet Options, under the General Tab in the Temporary Internet Files section, select Delete Cookies then click OK

To clear History:
  9. Follow steps 1-3 above
  10. In Internet Options, under the General Tab in the History section, select Clear History
  11. Click on Apply and then click OK

Netscape:
To clear History & Location Bar:
  1. Open Netscape
  2. Select Edit
  3. Under Edit, select Preferences
  4. Within Preferences, Click + sign or Arrow next to Navigator
  5. Then click on History
  6. Under History, select Clear History and then Clear Location Bar

To delete Cookies:
  7. Follow steps 1-3 above
  8. Within Preferences, Click + sign or Arrow next to Privacy & Security 
  9. Select Cookies
 10. Under Cookies, select Manage Stored Cookies
 11. Under Manage Stored Cookies, select Clear All Cookies and then click Close

To clear the Cache:

17. Select Document in cache is compared to document on network: every time

Third parties

No third party collects information from this website and there is no third party advertising. However, the online forum is operated by an external agency and users should read the terms of use before registering with this provider

Scope

This policy applies only to the NYAA website, not to sites visited by following hypertext links.

Ownership

NYAA is the sole owner of the information collected on this website.

Alternative ways to get in touch are given on the main home page.

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