You have no Privacy. Remember that. But in case yourinterested we will tell you what we will and won't do with any personal private information that you choose to give us, not because it will make any difference in the long term but to make some people feel good. This is just a statement. Of course we reserve the right to change this policy at any time and we may or not update this page and we may or may not inform you about it. Since there is no law that says we have to, why bother.

If you do not want to provide any information to SPOCNE (Saturn Performance Owners Club New England) and wish to remain completely anonymous (to us anyway) then don't visit the site, or check out the folks at Zero Knowledge . Just by visiting you are giving us (and any other web site) information about you. Information we log, and store, and look at, and analyze and drool over at the next garage day. Yes, we lead exciting lives.

By connecting to SPOCNE via http (the web) you provide us, and any other web site, your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, etc... all standard web log stuff. Nothing to personal. If your DNS actually resolves then we can find out approximately what part of the world you are in and who your ISP is. Do we have time to do all that? No. Do we want to? No. Do we care? No. Does it all get written down in logs for us to look at if we so choose? Yes.

If you choose to send us mail with our online web forms (if we have any) there is data gathered there too. Web forms are not anonymous. Not on our site or any other. Web forms will automatically grab your IP address, browser and OS types, and append that information to the email. Do we do anything with this information? No. We do use it internally sometimes to verify the validity of certian emails though.

If you choose to send us mail with the likes of HotMail, Yahoo, or any one of the dozens of other free email services you should be aware that the IP address of the person who composed the email is usually stored within the header. Again, we don't do anything with this information other than to determine where certain mail comes from.

Email is stored locally for approximately one month, sometimes less, sometimes more. Depends on what phase the moon is in and how full the hard drive is. Then it gets deleted never to be seen again. At the moment the machine that email is stored on is not backed up so don't worry about the feds taking all of our old tapes. We will absolutely NOT harvest email address from our received email and sell them to advertisers. SPAM is evil, and must be stopped. We will not contribute to its propagation under any circumstances!

If you choose to join SPOCNE as a member please rest assured that we will only use your information for that purpose and will not sell, give, exchange, or otherwise knowingly transmit your information to anyone else for any reason.

So what can you do about your general lack of privacy? First, stop giving it away, stop filling out questionaires or applying for things you don't need. Second, follow some of these links and learn some more.

NewOrder Box - Lots of Privacy and Anonymity Links

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - Fighters for Online Privacy