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This applies to all users: Third party advertisers may send cookies. Please consult their privacy policies for more information. Your IP address is stored when you: a) vote in a poll, b) visit an article, c) visit a content page (/view.php/...), d) download a members only file. It is stored for us to develop unique view statistics and non-unique view statistics. Results are aggregated and we have no such code that allows us to 'follow' the path. Visits are not timestamped. A poll vote only logs your IP Address and the poll you went to. An article visit logs your IP and the article id. A content page visit logs the section, subsection, and the page along with your IP. A members only file download adds the filename and your IP to the database.

We reserve the right to make modifications to this policy without informing end-users, as it is not feasible to send out hundreds of thousands of e-mails regarding trivial changes.
Intellectual Property Issues
Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero are the property of VALVe Software, Ritual Entertainment, Vivendi Universal, and/or Sierra Entertainment.