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Official Beyond Hogwarts Privacy Statement

1. Personal Information

The email address of each user who posts a message on Beyond Hogwarts is kept on our system to allow us to assure that posters are real people.

Email addresses of posters are never displayed anywhere on the system.

2. Information Disclosure

Email addresses of Beyond Hogwarts users or any other personal information about users and their site usage statistics never be sold or otherwise disclosed to any outside party.

3. Use of Cookies

Beyond Hogwarts may sometimes employ cookies to facilitate the operation of special features of the system.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are not harmful or dangerous, they cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer, or divulge information about you against your wishes. If they desire, each user can disable cookies in their own browser, doing so not adversely affect the usage of our site, other than allowing special features that use them to function correctly.

Currently, Beyond Hogwarts uses cookies to remember your "Last On" date and time, so next time you visit the site, you can tell which are the newest discussions and comments.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Beyond Hogwarts uses third-party ad companies, including Google and DoubleClick DART, to display ads on our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your browser based on your visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. They do NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Beyond Hogwarts has no control over these third-party cookies, and we do not have access to the information they may collect.

Any inquiries about this privacy statement should be directed to

This Privacy Statement was last updated April 2, 2009.