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Guestbook

So many people kept writing me and asking me for a guestbook to sign, that I finally broke down and added one.

To view it, just click on the link.

To sign it, just fill out the form.

How Old Are You?

Promoting Your Site

One benefit of signing guestbooks is to promote your own site. That is a good,  win-win proposition. The site owner gets feedback and the signer gets a bit of exposure too.

But there is something called "guestbook spamming". Guestbook spammers travel guestbook to guestbook, dropping their graphic banner or button into hundreds of other people's guestbooks. But they don't offer anything substantive in their comments. Their comments are identical site to site for every link you leave. They haven't even reviewed the site. Instead, they are just using guestbooks as cheap advertising. This is just poor netiquette.

Please don't misunderstand. I'm not opposed to you promoting your site. I'm opposed to people signing guestbooks for the sole purpose of promoting their site. Site promotion should be an added bonus, not the primary motivation.

I don't want to seem rude, but now, when you sign my Guestbook, the United States government says that I must ask you - - -

How old are you?

If you tell me you are 13 years old or older you can sign my guestbook and tell me anything. If you tell me you are 12 years old or younger, you can still sign my guestbook, you just can't tell me as much.

(By the way, you don't have to tell me your age to view my guestbook. And, if you don't answer the question, I'll presume you are at least 13 years old.)

If You Tell Me You Are Less Than 13 Years Old

A law called COPPA went into effect in April, 2000. The United States Government doesn't want me to collect "personal information" about "children".

"Personal information" includes:

  1. Your full name (you can use your first or last, but not both)
     
  2. Your email address
     
  3. Your website URL (at least, I consider it "personal information" even though the rules don't)
     
  4. Any other personal information that would let someone identify you.

If you tell me you are less than 13 years old, and if you also violate these rules, I must delete your posting. If I don't delete your posting, the Federal Trade Commission might try to fine me $10,000!

 

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Click here for this site's
COPPA Child Privacy Notice.

   

COPPA Cabana
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Information Practices

COPPA (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) requires that websites post "prominent links" to a notice of how they collect, use, and/or disclose "personal information" from children.

This guestbook provides the opportunity for a people to post "personal information" as defined by COPPA. So, I am posting this notice on this page to comply with that law.

Rather than attempt to obtain parental permission and maintain the wazillions of records required by COPPA, I just don't permit postings from anyone under 13. If I somehow discover that someone under 13 has posted, I delete the posting.

COPPA Child Privacy Notice - Click to view this site's COPPA Child Privacy Notice

Click for my
COPPA
Child Privacy
Notice.

For more information on COPPA and this site's COPPA Child Privacy Notice, click here or on the "Kidz Privacy" graphic above or on the "COPPA Child Privacy" button on the right.

This page created:
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Tue, 15.Aug.2000

Last updated:
22:44, Sat, 28.Jan.2012

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NOTICE - SITE UNDERGOING EXTENSIVE RESTRUCTURING - This particlar page has not yet changed. Some other pages have. The page and main menu are being widened; failing links are being identified/removed and the HTML is being corrected/revised to better use CSS Structures. I appreciate your patience while this effort proceeds. Completion was originally estimated for December 2011. However the lengthy illness and recent death of my mother (20.Jul.2011) has caused me to reestimate completion for Jul.2012, gods willing and the creeks don't rise. Please email me about any errors you detect or questions you may have.

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