Privacy Statement

All personal information, including email addresses and exercise results, is stored on our web server in a password-protected area, and is not made public. Access to this information is available only the information provider (you), and to staff of Creative Technology, the University of Victoria, and Halfbaked Software.

We do not, and will not, disclose any such information to any third party or other company for any reason, except where such disclosure may be required by a law enforcement agency. In particular, we do not sell or give any information about hotpotatoes.net account holders or students to any other commercial body, whether for commercial exploitation or for any other purpose.

If you have any queries or uncertainties about issues of privacy and confidentiality on hotpotatoes.net, please contact us.

Cookies

The hotpotatoes.net system uses a "cookie" to store a small piece of information on your computer. The information stored in this cookie does NOT include your name, password, or any other personal information - all this information is stored securely on our server.

Some companies misuse cookies in order to btain and share information about users, and to track peoples' movements between different websites. But the information stored in the hotpotatoes.net cookie cannot be used to track your browsing in any website outside hotpotatoes.net, and it cannot be used to transmit information about you to anyone - not even us! It is simply an identification number which is allocated to you when you log in, and is discarded when you log out. It does not represent any risk to the security or confidentiality of information which we store about you.