Our New Privacy Policy - You Own Your Data, and We Don't Sell It

https://everyme.com/blog/our_new_privacy_policy

by olivercameron • 14 years ago

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roopeshv7• 14 years ago

exactly like google's terms, minus the legalese

roopeshv7• 14 years ago

if you don't agree, reply. don't downvote

koeselitz2• 14 years ago

Well - you made a blunt statement that seems at the very least unintuitive without backing it up at all. The part of this policy that sticks out at me in this regard is this:

>> We do not sell your data to advertisers or any third parties under any condition. We don't make any tools that let advertisers access or sell ads on your data. We don't track you. The only stats we track are aggregated usage data across the site, and we only use this information for our own purposes.

Doesn't Google "let advertisers... sell ads on your data"? Doesn't Google track you? Honestly, this seems very different from Google.

jopt• 14 years ago

Surely google can't be credited with not selling data to advertisers?

roopeshv7• 14 years ago

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ please read "information we share" section

jnorthrop• 14 years ago

That is really a fantastic example of proper execution of full transparency. Privacy concerns are increasing and the best way to combat that is for the company to be fully transparent. But executing full transparency in a way that is meaningful to users is really difficult when it is hidden in a policy dense with legalese.

These guys are doing an excellent job of explaining what can be pretty confusing to an average user in plain and simple language.

nkwiatek• 14 years ago

Man, could these guys be riding Facebook any harder? Haters are most assuredly going to hate.

tuxidomasx• 14 years ago

Are privacy policies any more binding than terms of service? I rarely look at either as a consumer, and for most of my projects, i'm reluctant to even include them. My last ToS was "dont do anything you know you shouldnt do". I imagine popular sites/services might be under more scrutiny, but I still struggle with justifying even having policies or terms at all if they arent enforcable. Maybe its just a PR thing. Or plausible deniability for civil lawsuits and stuff.

vnorby3• 14 years ago

Before we wrote our new policy, I looked into this myself because I wondered if we could do without. In the US/Canada and some other places, it's not necessary to have a Privacy Policy (in the EU, it is) depending on what your site does. However, if a user is providing you with data, it is required by privacy laws to let the user know what you will do with it, what you are soliciting from them, and other basic things. For example, EU laws require that we alert the user that we use cookies to keep sessions for users, and how they may turn them off. I would love to have left out things that are obvious but we are required to include certain sections.

kyt• 14 years ago

I don't think the average consumer cares about their data being sold. There is a vocal minority of users that cares about online privacy, but I don't this isn't going to cause a mass exodus from Facebook. Seems more like a publicity stunt to me.

amirmc• 14 years ago

I doubt the average consumer knows how much data is even collected about them, let alone what happens to it. Viewed this way, one shouldn't assume that they don't care.

Also, it may well be a 'minority of users' who care about privacy at the moment but this may change over the coming years.

heliodor• 14 years ago

While this is all nice and fluffy, the company can switch its privacy policy whenever it wants and it's not going to tell you about it if it moves in a negative direction. They only tell you about it when it's a good PR move, like here. This applies to any site; I'm not trying to pick on this company in particular. I'm just pointing out that this is meaningless PR brownie points, so let's not get carried away.

tommi• 14 years ago

That's a very good point. I was looking for some kind of notice period for changes but this was all I found from the privacy policy: "If we ever make changes to our policy, you can easily see exactly what's changed on our Github page."

Tomorrow the policy might look very different.

simonbrown• 14 years ago

The avatar image is triggering a mixed content error. It also seems strange to display a 556x720 image at 25x25.

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