I have a private website for family & friends in memory of a child I
lost.  I use to be able to look at the stats page and know how many
times it had been visited by people that are important to me.  In the
last few months, the visit count has been highly excessive and it
appears that the two addresses below are responsible.  In addition, the
site indicates there are visits from the countries listed below. 
Could you explain what is going on that would account for this?  I
live in the US and do not know anyone in these countries. It really
feels like an invasion of my privacy and it is very disturbing.

ns1.hispanoplacesenelaire.com
f2.90.5646.static.theplanet.com

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Canada  
Switzerland  
Germany 
Taiwan 
Seychelles

This might be down to internet search engine bots, on my website
http://www.kent-electricians.co.uk, It is aimed at Kent in the UK but
I get hits from all over the world due to the search engine bots.

Also I have noticed a rise in bots that are looking for emails, they
search a page for email addresses and then use them for spam purposes.

These may account for some of the rises in stats and some of the countries.

If your site is only intended for your friends and family then you
could tell the search engines not to index your pages.

Create a file in notepad called robots.txt

The contents of the file should be:

User-agent: *
Disallow:/

Upload the file to your web server in the root directory.

If you have PHP available with your hosting company then you can
easily redirect any visitors with an IP Address outside the US to
another web page.

Or for best security create a member login page, and just give the
people you want to give access to a password.

If you want a very basic member login system and your hosting company
supports PHP then I can provide you with the code to add to your
pages, or I can sort it out for you.

Let me know through the contact box on the WebConsultancies.com website

http://www.webconsultancies.com/contact

Mention Google Answers so I remember that I said I'd do it for free

Hope this helps