If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web site, read pages, or download information, Modest Alternatives will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. Modest Alternatives automatically collects and stores the information that the Urchin stats package collects including:

the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of the host from which you access the Internet, whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP);
the browser type and version you are using to access the site;
the operating system and version you are running on your machine;
the date and time you access our site;
the pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page);
and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.

Modest Alternatives uses the summary statistics to help make the site more useful to visitors (such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors) and for other purposes such as determining the site’s technical design specifications and for soliciting paid advertisements by providing traffic statistics.

If you choose to provide Modest Alternatives or an editor with personal information, through an e-mail or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through the Web site, we use that information to respond to your message. We don’t share it with anyone unrelated to the maintenance of this site.