Comments on: Pageonce: Simplify The Internet http://tutorialninjas.net/2008/08/03/web-tool-pageonce/ Killing the repetitive questions, one at a time. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:44:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Quax http://tutorialninjas.net/2008/08/03/web-tool-pageonce/#comment-90177 Quax Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:54:12 +0000 http://tutorialninjas.net/?p=572#comment-90177 I am a little astonished to find such a positive marketing-style "review" (w/o technical info) on your site... especially since I thought you'd be concerned about privacy issues... Now I should give one private company all my financial and social background? Really? Is this wise? Yes, there is a privacy statement... it is weak... of course they will cooperate with law enforcement, but they will do more, much more: -- We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our services, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may use or disclose your information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. If we believe it is necessary, we will share your information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or the security of our network or services, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law. Pageonce may aggregate transaction data and disclose such data only in aggregate and in a non-personally identifiable manner to third parties for marketing and promotional purposes (e.g. how many users responded to a particular offer). Aggregated information does not identify any User individually. We use information about which links have been followed and whether action has been taken on another party's web site to improve our offerings and to customize the Service. I am a little astonished to find such a positive marketing-style “review” (w/o technical info) on your site…
especially since I thought you’d be concerned about privacy issues…
Now I should give one private company all my financial and social background? Really? Is this wise?

Yes, there is a privacy statement… it is weak… of course they will cooperate with law enforcement, but they will do more, much more:

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We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our services, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We may use or disclose your information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

If we believe it is necessary, we will share your information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or the security of our network or services, violations of our Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.

Pageonce may aggregate transaction data and disclose such data only in aggregate and in a non-personally identifiable manner to third parties for marketing and promotional purposes (e.g. how many users responded to a particular offer). Aggregated information does not identify any User individually.

We use information about which links have been followed and whether action has been taken on another party’s web site to improve our offerings and to customize the Service.

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