Privacy Policy

The code that I write for this website is plain html. Being a passive text format it does not use cookies or in any way invade your privacy. Executable programs that I provide for download only do electronics and engineering calculations and also pose no invasion of privacy. As stated on my contact page, if you email me I will not identify you on my website. I will not do so to any third party unless the communication is criminal in some way. Any exception will be by your permission.

Now that Google Ads appear on this website, the following will also apply:

Third party vendors, such as Google, use cookies to personalize ads based on a your prior web activity.
Google's advertising cookies enable it and its partners to deliver ads to you based on your pattern of visits to this and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of targeted advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Or alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party use of cookies for targeted advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

If you see ads on this site that offend you.

It is my intention that you only see family friendly content on my website where possible. In addition Google AdWord policies are supposed to prevent profane or offensive ads. However in practice you still may see ads of which you do not approve. Usually, this means that you have picked up cookies that draw offensive ads from websites you have visited. Websites giving out these cookies may even seem tame to you.

In Firefox you may try to resolve ad issues by doing the following:

Select preferences from edit menu to get to the preferences page. Then select the Privacy tab.
Cookies can be cleared from cookie dialog by clicking Remove individual cookies. After removing cookies, reload the web page to see if the offending ad goes away.

If there is no long term resolution, go back to the Privacy preferences do each of the following steps and watch the pattern of ads to see if offending ads go away.

Operate the drop down box under History and select Use custom settings for history. Then change Accept third-party cookies to From visited.
Operate the drop down box under History and select Use custom settings for history. Then change Accept third-party cookies to Never.
Operate the drop down box under History and select Use custom settings for history. Then change keep until: I close Firefox.

Windows browsers may allow similar privacy options.

As an alternative you may try the Ads Settings page as above to turn off targeted advertising.

I have seen offensive ads on reputable web sites a few times that seemed hacked and would not go away. These cases may be a police matter.