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December 09, 2005
News: Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us
I’m sort of done caring, but Yahoo! just bought del.icio.us. Congratulations Yahoo! on your latest acquisition of another little smidgen of cool.
Why I sort of still care: Thusfar, del.icio.us has remained completely free of any advertising. Could this possibly continue under such a high-overhead roof as Yahoo!?
Here for comparison sake, I am posting the current “Privacy Policy” as stated on del.icio.us. Let’s come back to this in a little while and compare, shall we?
Privacy Policy At del.icio.us, we respect the privacy of the users of our website and services and are committed to protecting it. We have created this policy to demonstrate our commitment to you and to help you understand it.
We may collect personal information, including email addresses, when individuals register to use the del.icio.us website and services, post a link to the del.icio.us website or submit questions, comments or bug reports. We may also, at times, collect our users' IP addresses and information regarding our users' use of our website and services. We may use such IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, track movement within our website and, if necessary, deny service in accordance with our Terms of Service. We may also collect information related to the referring URL, access times and browser type. Unless required by law, we will not share our users' personal information, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and usage information, except in aggregate or anonymous form, with third parties.In order to offer and provide optimized and personalized services, we use cookies to store and sometimes track information about our users. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to a user's browser from a web server and is eventually stored on a user's computer hard drive.
Our services give you the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us. We will never automatically send you information/offers you do not want. You must choose to receive them.
Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. For that reason, we will not collect age information for users under 18 years.
del.icio.us reserves the right to modify all or some of this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post a notice on our website so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected unless we have received explicit authorization from the appropriate user(s) to do otherwise.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website or your dealings with this del.icio.us, you can send an e-mail, in English, to privacy@del.icio.us.
Posted by Andy Mott at December 9, 2005 04:51 PM
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