About This Site
This site is maintained in the UK. Information appearing on this site should not be reproduced without permission of me, the site owner, however as long as you say please and put a link back here I'm unlikley to say no, but if there is anything you want to use, just mail me to ask me at this address: website.mail@madaxeman.com.
If you want to advertise, email me and I'm sure Madaxeman.com can come up with some sort of deal where I get free stuff and you get some ads. Or, if you want to use Google you can do so via:
The site is hosted by Zen Internet who seem very good - their online tech support has always been helpful to me when I need it, and so I'd fully recommend them if you want a reliable ISP and hosting service
EU Cookie Law and this site
A cookie is a type of information that a website puts on your hard disk in order to remember something about you at a later time. Cookies tends to record your preferences when using a particular site and are commonly used to rotate banner adverts, so the user receives different adverts based on previous website activity. This site has a few sections with cookies, almost all of them from third parties (ie not me - I have no real ide hwo it works TBH)
Read on to find out about how this affects you
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Madaxeman.com uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
the Cookies on Madaxeman.com help us:
- Make Madaxeman.com work as you'd expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you free content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve the website for you
- To enable the adverts on this site (for Amazon, eBay, Google & others) to do Affiliate Marketing and earn me small amounts of money each time you click on an advert or then go on to buy something. I'm not getting rich on it, and I do it partly to offset the cost of hosting the site, and partly because by adding in relevant links it helps make the site more interesting and useful. Anyways, if you buy anything through links from this site it won't cost you any more than if you bought it direct from Amazon or eBay - so it should be no skin off your nose.
Madaxeman.com does not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies used on Madaxeman.com below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of Madaxeman.com, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from Madaxeman.com you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that Madaxeman.com will not work as you would expect.
More about the Cookies on Madaxeman.com
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
Madaxeman.com uses cookies to make Madaxeman.com work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to Madaxeman.com
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use Madaxeman.com.
Third party functions
Madaxeman.com, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Madaxeman.com includes the following which use cookies:
- YouTube - Privacy Policy powers the videos on Madaxeman.com
- Google - Privacy Policy
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter there are sharing buttons on Madaxeman.com.
Cookies are set by:
- ShareThis - Privacy Policy provide us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package
- Twitter - Privacy Policy
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
Madaxeman.com uses cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited Madaxeman.com, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when Madaxeman.com isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve Madaxeman.com. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Madaxeman.com uses:
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards such as Your Online Choices
You can learn more about online advertising at www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies here although we would prefer that you didn’t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.
Madaxeman.com uses:
- DoubleClick - Privacy Policy owned by Google. The DoubleClick DART cookie allows Google to serve up ads on this site based on the types of other sites you visit where Google may have tracked you (the information they collect does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number, in fact they don't identify users personally or use personally identifiable information to display interest-based ads - you are just lumped into a group of "surfing fans" or "potholers" and they serve relevant ads on that basis). This essentially means you may see adverts on this site which relate to your work, or other hobbies and interests in addition to ones about wargaming, moddeling and history. I am NOT tracking your general internet usage, and I do NOT have access to this information, it's all a Google thing. You can learn more, or opt out of the use of the Google DART cookie programme entirely by visiting this Google site.
Banner Adverts
We fund Madaxeman.com by showing adverts as you browse Madaxeman.com. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specialising in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalise the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.
If you send me your email address or register for parts of this site, I won't give that info to anyone else, promise.
The more detailed technical bit is that parts of this website use cookies as part of the traffic monitoring system for me and the advertisers on this site, including stuff from Facebook (read their Privacy Policy to see how they embed stuff on this site to make it easy to link it to Facebook, and change your settings or get a browser plugin like Disconnect Me if you are uncompfortable with that), Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google") and Statcounter, a similar service provided by www.statcounter.com. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Statcounter and/or Google on servers in the United States or UK. They will all use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity (visible to me) and aggregating it for other website operators, and providing me with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. They may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website (you will get some irrelevant adverts, and you won't be able to add comments to the photo directories basically). By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google & Statcounter and some others in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
The 10mm & 15mm photo directories run on more FREE software called Coppermine. which is very clever as well, and is quite easy to set up, as long as your ISP gives you an SQL database. The WIKI runs on TikiWiki, which again is free and again uses its own cookies to speed up login if you set up an account.
