Privacy/Terms
I figured that I should throw one of these up, to be fair and accessible. Here’s the dirt:
This site collects your email address. Why? Its so that I don’t get tons of blog spam comments without some form of moderation. I used to moderate first time comments but I have found that a combination of Akismet and Simple Spam Filter are enough to keep the humans on the blog and the robots away. That’s all I use your email for. If you can’t be bothered to provide a valid contact email address, then your comment is not important here, either. My email address is posted on every page, so contact me if you have issues with my site. If you’re a human (or a really cool alien), I will be happy to converse with you. I use Simple Spam Filter and Akismet to moderate SPAM. If you get trapped, you’re considered a spammer and you’ll have to deal with it. What did you do? Spam me?
If you get stopped by Simple Spam Filter’s “you’re comment was moderated because it contained “…”, please prove that you are actually a human being and click the button to allow the comment through. I add keywords that I find in my Akismet que to a “block” list. Some may seem common, but spammers use them, too. Just click the button. If you don’t, I guess that you’re a spammer and you got caught. I don’t moderate your comments beyond that (which means that YOU moderate your own comment).
If you have to contact me, then use my email address, which is usually posted near the top of the front page and in the footer. I will not give away your information to anyone for marketing or spam purposes. I hate those jerks more than you do! I have to moderate their crap off my website.
This is my site and I will decide what content is appropriate. Keep your comments on topic, or I will delete them. I do not tolerate sexism, racism, or any form of demeaning other commenters on my site. Be respectful. Anything you say can be said in a mature manner. Do it. I will respect your opinion. I expect that you will respect the opinion of any other commenter on the site. If you persist, I will ban your email address and IP from my site, if necessary. Try not to break your country’s or my country’s laws when you post comments on my website. I don’t appreciate it and neither will my web host, Friendlier.com, whose Terms of Service is here.
This site does not guarantee that it will be constantly available, as its my personal spot, and, at whim, I may pull it down and redesign it all. I do not guarantee that your witty input will be preserved, as I don’t always back up often enough. If it craps out and is gone, sorry. Life calls again, I guess. I could change this policy from time to time without notice. Come back and read it once in a while to be sure, if you care.
That’s about it. Nothing big. Just respect me and I’ll do the same for you. Remember, my writing is ©me. Ask first or attribute. The same goes for you. If you see something that you wrote on my site and I have forgotten to link back to you, please email me with the post and content that should be attributed to you and I’ll fix it.
In case you’re the owner of a splog or spam site and you didn’t understand the above, that means don’t scrape my whole post and pass it off as your own. Delete it from your site and don’t bother coming back, either in person, with your feed reader, or your spider.
Additionally, I use a plugin that will display your Gravatar if you comment. If you don’t have a Gravatar, you will be assigned the default, which is 
