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Does iFriendsV2 sell or trade my personal information to other companies or websites?
No. iFriendsV2 is occasionally
contacted by third parties who, for marketing purposes, want to purchase our
mailing list and other sensitive customer information derived from our database
of more than two million customer accounts. Although there is no law forbidding
iFriendsV2 from selling such information, the trading of which is an extremely
lucrative business (well over a million dollars per year in potential revenue
to iFriendsV2), iFriendsV2 is serious in its commitment to protecting your personal
privacy. We have never sold such personal information about our customers to
outside parties -- not even once -- and we don't intend to.
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What kind of information does iFriendsV2 collect about me?
As a general rule, iFriendsV2
collects only three kinds of information about you: (1) information that you
voluntarily provide to us or authorize, such as your name, address, credit-card
and other account information as submitted on the iFriendsV2 Membership
Submission Form, (2) "Log information" about the areas of iFriendsV2 that
you visit, that are accessible from the general internet environment, and (3)
private correspondence, such as the contents of e-mail messages you exchange
with iFriendsV2.
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Can the fact that I am a iFriendsV2 customer
or visitor get into some database somewhere, such that other parties could find
out?
Sadly, this possibility
exists, in both the online and offline worlds, for every company you do
business with, even if the company itself follows iFriendsV2' self-imposed
practice of not selling or trading your personal information. For example,
every credit-card transaction you engage in, from online web sites to the
corner gas station, is stored in databases outside of your control, and outside
of the control of merchants like iFriendsV2.
In the online world, one type
of important "transaction" that you engage in is when you click a
link from one website to another. When you do so, both the original and
destination websites have the opportunity to log the identification of both
sitenames. For example, if you use a search engine such as Yahoo! to find books
about Harry Potter, and click a link to an online book store such as
Amazon.com, both Yahoo! and Amazon.com may record the fact that you left Yahoo
to visit Amazon, and in particular, record the area of Yahoo! you were
in when you clicked the link. (In this example, Amazon may record an address
such as "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=harry+potter" in its
database, an address which reflects your preferences in books). In other words,
whenever you click on a link from another site to go to iFriendsV2, the
originating site may record the fact that you visited iFriendsV2.
Another important issue to
understand is that when you visit iFriendsV2, your internet connection travels
through several "hops", and at each such "hop", any
company, individual, or government agency with access to the hop has the
opportunity to record the information that passes back and forth between you
and iFriendsV2. For example, if you surf iFriendsV2 while at work, your employer's
computer network is typically the "first hop". Your employer may log the identity of every web site you visit, including
iFriendsV2. Similarly, if you surf iFriendsV2 or any other website while using
America Online, AOL has an opportunity to log the identity
of each website you visit, including iFriendsV2.
At the end of the day, your
only protection against "middlemen" logging your information is industry
self-regulation and government regulation that either forbids or regulates the
practice.
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What about encryption? Can't you use a "secure server" and therefore prevent everyone in the middle from "listening in"?
While encryption will indeed
"scramble" the transmission between your internet browser and
iFriendsV2, the address of the web pages themselves, as they appear in a company's
server logs, are not encrypted. Think of it this way: If you use an ordinary
telephone line to call a friend, and both you and the friend speak in a special
code language unintelligible to others, you have succeeded in
"encrypting" your call. However, the information in the telephone
company's logs, i.e., the fact that "555-162-1161" called
"555-162-6232" at 2:05pm on Sunday, July 9, is *not* encrypted. Web server logs work the same way.
Therefore, even if the communication is encrypted, the name
"iFriendsV2.net" could still appear in the server logs of a website
that you leave to visit iFriendsV2.
Whenever you transmit
sensitive, personally-identifiable information to us, such as your credit-card
information, the transmission is completely encrypted by our secure servers.
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Does iFriendsV2 outsource to other companies
any privacy-sensitive functions such as management of its customer email
system, web hosting, bulletin-board, or its e-commerce platform?
Because iFriendsV2 is committed
to safeguarding the integrity of your personal information, we have elected to
not use such services, despite the fact that they are reasonably-priced and vastly
simplify the management challenge of running a large and complex website
operation.
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