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Technology Stocks : EFAX.com - easy-to-use fax-to-email technology -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bluejeans who wrote (559)	3/17/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Islander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1197

Thread: Has everyone fully read the privacy clauses in the EFAX contract? If you have, post your comments. My understanding is that EFAX can use your personal info and then sell this information to net marketers, and also, via your computer's 'signature' and 'cookies', also track where you go on the web. They can then sell this info as well..to answer the question of how EFAX plans to (try to) make money.....True or false? Personally, I find it scary, if not reprehensible, as most who sign up probably never read the Privacy Clause in entirety..Do your own DD. I am doing mine and here is an excerpt from the Privacy clause: >> Your privacy is very important to us. However, we collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you as part of the normal operation of our site. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. As described below, some of your personally identifiable information is disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties. By accepting the user agreement, you expressly consent to such use and disclosure of your personally identifiable and other personal information. Information About You We ask you to provide information when you register for the eFax.com services. This information includes your name and email address, while other information such as mailing address and phone number remain optional. It is eFax.com's policy to respect the privacy of its members. Although we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party, we may, in certain cases where you access our site from other third party sites, release your email address to such third party. We do not disclose certain pieces of information, such as your password, PIN, or eFax number at all. We may aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information to third parties in aggregate for a number of business purposes, including running and enhancing the services, but in these situations we do not disclose to other entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. Also, we may use information about you to provide you with ads or offers from advertisers that we think may be relevant to you, but in these cases we do not disclose any personally identifiable information about you to third parties. In the course of using our site and our services, we automatically track certain information about you. This information may include the number and source of fax transmissions, the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address. We use this information in the normal operation of the site and we may disclose this information on an aggregated basis. We currently do not use cookies on our site, although we reserve the right to add cookies at a later time. Among other reasons, cookies could allow us to require you to enter your password only once during a session. Cookies can also help us provide advertising which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may be required to reenter your password multiple times during a session. <<<<<<<<< BIG BROTHER???