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Privacy Policy

So, it’s all about privacy. I love my privacy. I find the “big brother” aspect of the internet very intrusive and disturbing. And now, it seems I am required to post a privacy policy here at shirleytwofeathers.com. So. Basically, my policy is… I love my own privacy, and I am not the least bit interested in invading yours.

Is any of your information collected here on this site? Well, inevitably, some of it is. Sigh… But it’s not much, and it’s only for a few simple reasons.

  • Spam comments.

I have a plug in that effectively limits spam comments here on the site. If I didn’t have that little plug in, I’d be dealing with upwards of 1000’s of daily comments about viagra and cialis and god only knows what else. My plug in tracks ip addresses, and other small internet thingy’s (I’m not technically advanced at all), and blocks spammers. The current program is doing a great job, and I’m glad that it has collected those tiny tidbits of information, which is all done automatically.

  • Share This.

If I want people to share what I post, it really helps to have a “share this” option. This is a third party plug in, and I’m reasonably sure that they collect and track information like… I don’t know what… but the plug in is a freebee, so I’m sure they make their money some how. If you don’t want them to know anything at all about you, I’d suggest you share your favorite posts by copying and pasting the actual url or link to the post.

  • Visitor Stats.

So, I like to know what posts are getting the most views. It’s a nice ego boost, and knowing what my visitors are interested in helps me to decide what to research and post about. Also, it’s really nice to watch that visitor count go up every day. Gives me a reason to put in all the long hours that I put in here on the site, slaving away at my computer until late into the night. 🙂 I’m sure that the stat counter is some kind of data miner, how could it not be? But it’s pretty benign, I think, and you’d be hard pressed to find a website that doesn’t have one installed somewhere.

  • About Cookies

I don’t really know much about cookies, I have no clue as to how they are actually installed on a site, or how to get them, or anything about them. I do know that cookies allow my web browser to fill in my name and address on some forms, and I do know that google uses cookies like crazy! So, at first I assumed that my site probably did have cookies… but when I checked for cookies at the cookie checker, I came up with ZERO! So, if you don’t believe me, try it for yourself. And if it says I have cookies… Jeez! I am so sorry…would you like some milk to go with them? LOL… but seriously… you can disable cookies somewhere in your web browser settings.

  • But Wait There’s More

I didn’t know just how important it was to be super specific, technical, and detailed a privacy policy needed to be, so I found an example of a pretty good one, and posted it in all it’s glory here: Privacy Policy. I do hope to get a link to the new privacy policy page on each of the mini sites… but there are so many of them, that it will take me a while to get that done.

Three New Things!

We have three new mini sites up and running. How fun is that?

Over on the Fun Stuff pages, we have It’s A Cat Astrophe. Cats are what the internet was made for, don’t you know? So Come on over for lots of feline fun. It has memes, art, funny and cute pictures, stories, lore and lots of other cool stuff. Enjoy!

In the Healing Outside the Box section, we have Alternative Therapies. It’s an eclectic collection of different healing modalities and techniques. It might be worth checking out, who knows, you might find something interesting and useful!

But Wait ~ There’s More! Yes, it’s Totally Random. Who knows what you might run into on that little mini site. It’s full of odds and ends, useful and totally useless ideas and information.

Current News

It’s been a while since I posted here, so this is a small update.  My winter depression took me by surprise this year, and got the better of me early on. Usually I’m better prepared. So, I’ve spent the last several weeks being depressed and playing the Sims. I realized it was time to put the game away when I was trying to think about my favorite tree… and the only trees I could visualize in my mind were trees from my game.

What I love about the Sims is that I can make my people do what they need to do in order to be happy. It would be so great if I could do the same for myself in my real life, but the part of me that makes me do things I don’t want to do appears to be broken. Sigh…

Anyway, I’m back posting again. So much more is still to come, and I’m looking forward to filling up all the pages with cool and interesting stuff which will hopefully be useful to those of you who visit my little piece of the world wide web.

A Small Annoyance

So, now that there’s been a WordPress Update, the settings for the Popular Posts widget have changed, and I’m going to have to go through EVERY little site and fix it… sigh. Perfection is so elusive! I do intend to get there though, at some point.

 

Just Checking In

No major problems, no big updates, just a short note to say that things are perking along pretty smoothly. As usual, the Magick and Mystery sites are getting a lot of traffic, and I work hard to continue to add new content there. The Healing Pages are not getting as much attention as I would like to give them, I have added some new content, and I have so much more that I haven’t had time to upload… sigh.

The Inspirational Pages are coming along. I did add a bunch of quotes to Way Cool Quotes, and The Prosperity Project is getting ready for another 30 days beginning on Nov 15. I did add some memes and some pictures to the Fun Pages, trying to stay caught up with Halloween.

I hope I get some thanksgiving pics and memes uploaded pretty soon. The rest of the pages are just waiting for me to have more hours in the day, more days in the week, and more energy and brain power… So. Enjoy the site. I hope you find something interesting and informative!

This is Important

Net neutrality is a very important issue that we don’t hear much about… but there’s going to be a vote that could change everything you will be able to do online. If you value your freedom to surf and explore, and if you are tired of what is already a constant and persistent stream of propoganda, you might want to do something to preserve a free internet.

Not convinced? Watch this!

So, if you want to do something about it, here’s a link to a page to check out: Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

The Latest News Update

I feel like I’m always “in the weeds.” Never enough time in the day… never enough days off… Halloween is coming, and then Thanksgiving and Christmas, and a whole new year!

I have been so crazy busy trying to keep up with the Book of Shadows, Pagan Calendar, the Prosperity Project, and my “real” life, that I haven’t even thought about taking the time to post an update.

Some of the little mini sites haven’t had updates for several months… sigh… and I haven’t felt compelled to stay up until 3 am working on them because they aren’t getting much traffic anyway. It’s a catch 22. The sites that get a lot of traffic also get a lot of attention from me… which brings in more traffic. The sites that don’t get many page views per day, also don’t get many updates from me… which gives even less of a reason to visit them.

Yesterday, though, I did notice that the More Cool Pictures and Meme City have been getting some traffic, so I uploaded more memes and more cool pictures.

So, that’s the latest news update.

Oops!

Looks like the Way Cool Pictures theme was broken in the move, and I just now realized it. The content is still there, it just wouldn’t load. It’s back up, and now I’m having to redo the widgets and the other miscellaneous stuff that comes with the theme.

Big Update

We have been working behind the scenes to migrate shirleytwofeathers.com to an updated hosting platform. Once all the busy work is complete, we will be a secure site. Naturally, this has not been easy. Apparently, this site is unusual and complicated and Go Daddy technicians have had to do the migration manually.

The SSL certificate has been approved and applied, but everything isn’t quite done yet because now there is a doppelganger site. one with the https and one without.  Also, I have to reconfigure all my FTP settings, and possibly redo some of the feeds… not sure about that yet. So it will be a little while before I can calm down.

Also, I have been unable to get new themes to upload to the various little mini sites that I have been working on this week. I went on theme-a-thon and made a bunch of new ones and was all ready to add several new websites… but ALAS.. they will not upload and I don’t know if it’s because it’s a secure server now… or if it’s some other reason. So… I am freaking out a little bit. LOL.

Hopefully soon all the kinks will be ironed out and it will  be business as usual.

A Small Adjustment

I have added a drop down menu to the nav bar at the top of all the main pages. It’s just a small tweak, I know, and I think it makes everything easier to find. So, now I am really feeling antsy about getting all the main areas up and running. There is so much good stuff, and I just can’t get it uploaded fast enough… sigh.

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