Our Privacy and Other Policies

We're rabid about privacy. We hate it when people violate our privacy, and as a result, we wouldn't dream of violating yours.

To that end, we promise that:

We don't use cookies. Not now. Not ever. (However, some of the services we use, such as Google Adwords, Google Analytics and Doubleclick may.)

We don't collect or save any information about our visitors that can be connected to a specific person, except for those people who subscribe to our mailing lists or our pamphlets.

Beyond our privacy policies:
We're child and family friendly. We carefully monitor our content and our links to assure that neither are offensive. We screen our advertisers (if any) to make sure they are child and family friendly as well. (However, we cannot follow all their links, nor do we have control over their privacy policies.)

We only discriminate against rude people. And as soon as they stop being rude, we stop discriminating against them.

Deep linking:
Sure. Go ahead and do it. Our policy is to avoid changing our file names. In those cases where we feel it necessary, we leave the old file in place as a redirector to the new one, so your viewers will still see something. Feel free to save pointers to your favorite recipes here. We'll try real hard (with no promises) to keep them around as long as we're on the Internet. (We may have some problems with this as we migrate the site to Joomla. Still, we'll try.)

Copyright issues:
We take copyrights seriously. All the material on the Sourdough Home web page is copyrighted by the owner of the site, Mike Avery. We hope you will use our material to further your baking endeavors. However, if you want to use it for anything other than your own baking, please send me a note through our "Contact Us" page. Permission will be routinely granted for non-commercial, credited, use of our material.

Some of the recipes on this site have been modified from other published works. In all cases, we have given credit where credit is due and encourage our readers to purchase these wonderful resources. We believe our use of these materials falls into the category of "fair use." If you are the copyright holder of these materials and you do not agree, please drop us an email through our "Contact Us" page and we will stop using your material at once.