Privacy Statement
Erowid is a strong supporter of individual privacy and we will do everything we can to safeguard information about our visitors, contributors, and members. Erowid does not, and will not in the future, sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected at our site, including membership forms or email lists.
Visitors
Many people ask whether simply visiting Erowid can be cause for concerns about privacy and security. One of the primary things to know is that we get more than 30,000 visitors a day (more than 600,000 a month). There is safety in numbers. Our visitors span the spectrum from users of psychoactives to law enforcement, educators, chemists, physicians, and parents. Visiting Erowid does not imply anything in particular about the visitor.
As with almost all websites, temporary logs are kept which identify some information about our visitors, including the I.P. addresses of machines being used to access the site. Our web logs are not available to the public. These logs allow website administrators to see how many people visit the site, how many pages have been accessed, which pages are accessed most frequently, and what links are leading people to the site.
Standard logs (including ours) also track which pages are visited by each I.P. address. This information is important for us to have because it allows us to catch denial of service attacks (for example, individual I.P.s accessing hundreds of thousands of pages per day). This is obviously an area which concerns people and we take great care to make sure this information can not be used to compromise the privacy and security of our visitors.
Submissions
Because standard web logs track which pages are visited by each I.P. address, we have created several systems by which submissions (experience reports, images, etc) are considerably more difficult to track to a specific individual. For instance, when an image is submitted, the file write time is automatically changed so it will not be possible to determine who the submittor is by comparing the submission time to the web logs.
All submissions can be made pseudononymously and contact information is not publicly displayed unless specifically requested by the submittor.
Members / Contributors
Information collected about members (such as name, email address, physical address, and credit card information) will never be shared with anyone. We do not share mailing lists with any other organizations. Additionally, there are a number of ways to make anonymous contributions.
Use of Cookies
Erowid uses cookies in a few areas to allow visitors to set personal viewing preferences. For instance, when viewing experience reports, each visitor can set how many results they would like to view per page. If set, this information is stored in a cookie.
Removal of Indentifying Information
If you have previously submitted information to Erowid and would like to have your name or contact information removed from the submission, please let us know. Over the past six years we have incorporated several independent collections of information into our archives. Some of these archives may display names or contact information without the permission of the author. We are happy to anonymize submissions, though we will need to be able to verify that you are the original submittor.
For more information about online privacy, visit :
Visitors
Many people ask whether simply visiting Erowid can be cause for concerns about privacy and security. One of the primary things to know is that we get more than 30,000 visitors a day (more than 600,000 a month). There is safety in numbers. Our visitors span the spectrum from users of psychoactives to law enforcement, educators, chemists, physicians, and parents. Visiting Erowid does not imply anything in particular about the visitor.
As with almost all websites, temporary logs are kept which identify some information about our visitors, including the I.P. addresses of machines being used to access the site. Our web logs are not available to the public. These logs allow website administrators to see how many people visit the site, how many pages have been accessed, which pages are accessed most frequently, and what links are leading people to the site.
Standard logs (including ours) also track which pages are visited by each I.P. address. This information is important for us to have because it allows us to catch denial of service attacks (for example, individual I.P.s accessing hundreds of thousands of pages per day). This is obviously an area which concerns people and we take great care to make sure this information can not be used to compromise the privacy and security of our visitors.
Submissions
Because standard web logs track which pages are visited by each I.P. address, we have created several systems by which submissions (experience reports, images, etc) are considerably more difficult to track to a specific individual. For instance, when an image is submitted, the file write time is automatically changed so it will not be possible to determine who the submittor is by comparing the submission time to the web logs.
All submissions can be made pseudononymously and contact information is not publicly displayed unless specifically requested by the submittor.
Members / Contributors
Information collected about members (such as name, email address, physical address, and credit card information) will never be shared with anyone. We do not share mailing lists with any other organizations. Additionally, there are a number of ways to make anonymous contributions.
Use of Cookies
Erowid uses cookies in a few areas to allow visitors to set personal viewing preferences. For instance, when viewing experience reports, each visitor can set how many results they would like to view per page. If set, this information is stored in a cookie.
Removal of Indentifying Information
If you have previously submitted information to Erowid and would like to have your name or contact information removed from the submission, please let us know. Over the past six years we have incorporated several independent collections of information into our archives. Some of these archives may display names or contact information without the permission of the author. We are happy to anonymize submissions, though we will need to be able to verify that you are the original submittor.
For more information about online privacy, visit :