Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and avoidance of AI-assisted content for gocek.org, gocek.net, gocek.com
Updated 9 July 2024.
This page describes information we collect, what we do with it, and what we don't do with it. This page describes
how you may use the information. This page describes our preference to avoid AI-assisted context creation.
"We", "us", "our", etc., refer to the administrators and authors of the content on the domains listed above.
The "gocek domains" are gocek.org, gocek.net, gocek.com.
"You", "your", etc., refer to users and readers of the content.
None of the original texts (pages, articles, etc.) on the gocek domains are generated by AI-assitsted techniques such as
those using a Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT). The web pages and articles here are written by humans. A human may
perform research while writing the content and that research may be AI-assisted, but the final texts are human-curated.
Third-party content referenced or otherwise associated with our content (such as blog comments from third parties)
may be AI-generated, but we will attribute our sources as appropriate and when possible. Some images may have been created
with AI assistance, but only for artistic purposes, and they do not claim to represent actual people.
There are no deep fakes here.
Personal information is requested in the course of processing blog comments and LHS music requests.
Web server logs report each hit from an IP address, although this is not correlated with individuals.
See below for information on specific types of personal information.
Personal information is never
displayed on the web sites nor distributed to third parties. Authors of blog
comments may choose to insert personal information into the body of their
comments, and that information would be displayed. In this respect, an email
address entered into a text box for email addresses is "different" than the
same email address entered into a text box for arbitrary comments, so users
need to be careful about how they provide personal information.
Email addresses are generally optional, but may be provided with blog comments or obtained from received
messages or used with LHS music requests. Like any internet user, if we receive
an email address, it may be saved in a private folder. Email addresses may be used to discuss
and update comments with their authors, or to answer questions sent to us.
Support for Gravatar and OpenID
are planned, with which email addresses may be used. We may contact others in
the course of maintaining the sites. Blog comments are saved in data-stores
separately from original blog content. Content and comments are merged into the
blog display pages as the pages are opened by readers. The comment data-stores
are on the Internet, but the locations are not published. Email addresses, when
available, are encrypted within the data-stores and can be decrypted by us for
the purpose of privately discussing issues and modifying site content.
Email addresses are never displayed on
the web sites nor distributed to third parties. Authors of blog comments may
choose to write their addresses within the body of their comments.
It is possible to extract demographic information from web server logs. It's interesting to see that the sites
receive visitors from all over the world. Demographic information is not
correlated with individual visitors, nor used for any particular purpose. We do
not share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our
partners and advertisers. We publish total "page views" for some time periods,
but not in a way that could implicate individual users.
Third party services such as OpenID may be used to authenticate users when entering blog comments.
Ultimately, blog comments can be entered anonymously, but authentication is performed to provide a level of
trust. When someone signs a comment, that comment seems more trustworthy.
Contact us if you think someone has used your name to leave a blog comment.
The reliabilty of authentication, particularly OpenID, is imperfect but it's better than nothing.
Announcements, newsletters and other communications:
We currently produce no emailed "generic" communications. Expect only personalized messages, such as if a
visitor asks for news about a specific topic.
Our software products are downloadable for free either from the sites or from other software download sites such as
sourceforge.net. You may be asked for information by third-party sites in order to download software, but these third
parties do not share registration information with us.
Although you get what you pay for, and you don't pay for our software, we would be happy to hear about your
experiences.
Currently, no fees are charged. We are not responsible and do not expect compensation for anything that happens (good,
bad or otherwise) as a result of using the software.
The forum and its user database have been deleted, and registrants were notified by email on November 12, 2007.
Some forum comments were migrated to blogs. In some cases, email addresses associated with forum registrations were
migrated to the encrypted portion of a blog comment data-store, as described above.
Information entered with blog comments is saved into data-stores separate from the original blog content.
The locations of these data-stores are not published. Email addresses are encrypted within the data-stores.
We do not maintain a registration database. No personal information is shared with third parties nor used for
unsolicited commercial purposes.
Customer service: Help may be requested. We'll help you in any way we can. There may be ways in which we can't help.
Service providers: We use www.HosTek.com
to provide web hosting services.
HosTek is obligated to view site information only upon request by us (the HosTek customer), and we would only
make such a request in case of catastrophic service problems. In such a case,
HosTek remains bound by typical confidentiality agreements.
We do not share personal information with HosTek, although our files reside on a HosTek controlled server.
Legal disclaimer: Gary Gocek is the sole owner of the information collected at gocek.com/net/org.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial
proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web sites. We reserve
the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files, on our own
or on our hosting service's servers. This information includes internet
protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze
trends, to administer the sites, to track users' movements around the sites and
to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. A web beacon is typically
a small, invisible image used with cookies to report browsing information to a server.
This site serves Google ads and is required
to state here that Google and third party advertisers may place and read cookies on your browser, or
use web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served. You can adjust
your browser to reject cookies. Google's use of the
DART cookie
enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Our site software does not currently
use cookies to maintain session information, but advertisers might. In general,
your access to site features will not be affected if you choose to configure your
browser to reject cookies. Even if you accept cookies, your browser will not
transmit personally identifiable information to advertisers while visiting this
web site. Your IP address might be transmitted. These
statements about cookies are boilerplate disclaimers. This site does not share
personal information with advertisers.
We employ advertisements delivered to our web pages according to page content.
Such services do not collect user information, but advertisers may collect information at their own web sites. We
do not share our user information with advertisers or ad servers.
Our Web sites contain links to other
sites that are not owned or controlled by gocek.com/net/org. We encourage you
to be aware when you leave our sites and to read the privacy statements of each
and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy
statement applies only to information collected by our Web sites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
You may comment on our blog (web log) content.
Personally identifiable information
you submit in the visible portions of your comments (excluding entries for your
name or email address) can be read, collected, or used by other readers, and
could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the
personally identifiable information you choose to submit to these pages. We
reserve the right to modify or delete comments for any reason. Modifications
and deletions will usually occur only in response to general service
termination or for users who use our services in a manner inconsistent with our
Terms of Service. Blog comments are not editable once posted. Contact us to request changes.
The security of your personal information is important to us.
Some blog articles accept comments
from readers. When adding a comment, an ID is requested. This ID may be a full
email address. This ID can be used by our web site software to access avatars
or to validate deletion requests. The ID is encrypted and stored with the
article comment. Article comments are stored separately from articles. IDs are
partially exposed when comments are displayed on the blog pages, but email
addresses are truncated to avoid exposure.
The encryption mechanism will never be exposed to outside parties.
In the event gocek.com/net/org goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another
company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.
You will be notified via prominent
notice on our Web sites for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control
of your personal information.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) managed by the US
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates the collection and distribution of a
child's personal information, and empowers minors and their parents to control information that is collected.
Our blog comment page collects names and email addresses for the purpose of operating the blogs. This information is
optional, and the blogs are not directed at children and the age of users is
not requested or known, so COPPA is not applicable. If a child under the age of
13 uses our sites and this becomes known to us, we will attempt to verify
parental consent or delete personally identifiable information. When COPPA is
not applicable, COPPA does not hold site operators liable when the age of
participants is unknown. Contrary to internet folklore, the participation of
children is not prohibited by law, but parental consent is required when the
site operator learns that information has been collected on a participant under
the age of 13. Our content is not directed at children but is family friendly,
so given the safeguards of COPPA, children are not automatically discouraged.
COPPA requirements generally apply even though COPPA does not apply to our sites.
Since COPPA does not apply and we don't expect child participants, COPPA details are not provided here (parents
may follow the link above to the FTC's site).
Contact us: Email address,
Street address and phone.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us. We get a lot of
spam, and if you send an email note with a subject like "blog", your
email will not likely be read. Use a descriptive subject like, "Delete my
gocek.org blog comment." Collect calls will not be accepted. US Mail
correspondence will be accepted, but a stamped and addressed return envelope
(or an email address) is required for a reply.
Terms of Use and suggestions for use of content on the gocek domains
Policy on avoiding AI-assisted content creation ... Privacy policy
Policy on avoiding AI-assisted content creation ... Privacy policy
Reusing content from the gocek domains: Unless otherwise noted, site content (text, images, etc.) is copyrighted
by Gary Gocek. See the acknowledgements page for Christian symbols.
Please conform to "fair use" guidelines and don't repost large portions of site content. If you think that your
own content has been unfairly copied onto a gocek domain, please contact us (see bottom of this page) and we'll remove
infringing content or improve the acknowledgement.
The textual content of the 897th/3562nd WWII veteran tribute pages is
mostly public domain material from the US Army or other historical sources.
Pictures stamped with a name such as "gocek.org" come from private collections
of the veterans, and these are not to be reused without permission. We are always
on the lookout for more 897th/3562nd information, and we can share background
information not on the web site, so please contact us.
It is the intent of the gocek domains to provide family friendly content.
Sometimes, dynamic content from external sources is unpredictable. We can't be
held responsible for external content, but if you see something offensive, let
us know and we'll make changes.
Our software is free, and you get what you pay for. We'll do our best to
respond to bug reports and feature requests, but we accept no legal or financial
responsibility for losses on your part.
Link exchanges: Please contact us if you wish to trade links between your
site and ours. Your pages should be family friendly (even if the pages are not
intended for young readers). Your pages should not use too many annoying
advertising gimmicks like pop-unders and such.
Note on rehosting of others' content: We frequently insert links to other
web sites in our content on the gocek domains, but web content can be fleeting. Pages
and media and whole sites disappear. In some cases when one of the links goes bad,
it is possible to scrape the lost content from archive.org and rehost it here on
our sites. We figure if archive.org can rehost everyone's content, we can at least
rehost complementary content that faded away because some guy didn't want to pay
the domain registration fee. We do try to find alternate links, but sometimes the
content just fades away. If you see your content on the gocek domains, contact us with
any concerns.
Download a single picture: Here's
what you do, if you're using a Microsoft browser or Firefox. Operations will be
similar on Chrome and other browsers.
Find the picture you want to download to your own computer. Many of you reading this note are interested in Christian Symbols. On that page, search for an image to display small-size images (thumbnails), then click on a thumbnail to open a window with the full-size image. You can print this new window. For pictures that are not Christian symbols, simply find the picture you want to download.
If you want to download the image file, position your mouse cursor over the middle of the image. Click and release the right mouse button. You'll get a popup menu. Select "Save Picture As..." ("Save Image As..." in Firefox.). This pops up the Save Picture (Save Image) window that allows you to select a folder into which you'll copy the saved image file. Personally, Gary likes to select Desktop.
Click the Save button on the Save Picture (Save Image) window.
Find the picture you want to download to your own computer. Many of you reading this note are interested in Christian Symbols. On that page, search for an image to display small-size images (thumbnails), then click on a thumbnail to open a window with the full-size image. You can print this new window. For pictures that are not Christian symbols, simply find the picture you want to download.
If you want to download the image file, position your mouse cursor over the middle of the image. Click and release the right mouse button. You'll get a popup menu. Select "Save Picture As..." ("Save Image As..." in Firefox.). This pops up the Save Picture (Save Image) window that allows you to select a folder into which you'll copy the saved image file. Personally, Gary likes to select Desktop.
Click the Save button on the Save Picture (Save Image) window.
Display a gocek image on your own web page: Here's an example of HTML markup to display a gocek.org
image from the Christian Symbols page on your own page:
The border=0 attribute removes the ugly blue border that normally accompanies linked images, but the link is still there so that we get credit for your use of our site's bandwidth. If you really wanted to, you could download the image to your own file system and still link the image back to gocek.org.
You can also add something like:
to adjust the size of the displayed image.
The point here is that we pay a host for space and bandwidth, and it's OK to use the images from the gocek domains, but we ask for a link to gocek.org in return. The link should not affect your own page's appearance.
<a href="https://www.gocek.org/christiansymbols/"><img
src="https://www.gocek.org/christiansymbols/images/image.jpg"
border="0"></a>
The border=0 attribute removes the ugly blue border that normally accompanies linked images, but the link is still there so that we get credit for your use of our site's bandwidth. If you really wanted to, you could download the image to your own file system and still link the image back to gocek.org.
You can also add something like:
width="125" height="521"to adjust the size of the displayed image.
The point here is that we pay a host for space and bandwidth, and it's OK to use the images from the gocek domains, but we ask for a link to gocek.org in return. The link should not affect your own page's appearance.