TheHopefulRealist.com is the personal website of Robert MacNeil Christie, PhD, author of At the Edge of illusion: Facing the New Great Transformation and other publications. This site is maintained for the sole purpose of providing information, updates, analysis, and general communication related to the changing conditions and human responses as we move deeper into the Anthropocene, and for exchanging ideas, information, and perspective with persons who visit the site.
Your privacy is critically important to us.
It is this website’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to thehopefulrealist.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “thehopefulrealist.com ”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Thehopefulrealist.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our site’s visitors use the website. From time to time, Thehopefulrealist.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Thehopefulrealist.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on blog posts. Thehopefulrealist.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Your Name and Email
We do not store your name and email on our site. If you sign up to receive newsletters using a form on the site, the information is securely stored at our mail service, whose compliance is certified in accordance with the EU-U.S./Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks.
Aggregated Statistics
Thehopefulrealist.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Thehopefulrealist.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Thehopefulrealist.com does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Thehopefulrealist.com uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Thehopefulrealist.com uses cookies to help Thehopefulrealist.com identify and track visitors, their usage of the site and their website access preferences. Thehopefulrealist.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to thehopefulrealist.com use of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Thehopefulrealist.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in thehopefulrealist.com ’s sole discretion. Thehopefulrealist.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
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