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Fine Print Friday: Google’s Advertising Policies

by Graham Martin on April 8, 2011 · 1 comment

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…ot collect, sell, or share your personally-identifying information from the advertising cookies without your express consent. For the purposes of providing ads through Google’s AdWords program, the ads are based on your search terms; for non-Google websites, the ads are based on the content of the page you are viewing. Interest and demographic information are retained to focus advertising to your preferences, but you can alter the interest …

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Ruh-Roh, Raggy!

August 19, 2011
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It seems as though the page you’re looking for isn’t here. I suspect it’s due to one of these little green monsters that keep running around and eating my computers. Whatever the case, you can click here to go back to the home page, you can search for what you are looking for in the search box up and to the right, or you can send me a message telling me what you were looking for and that you are upset with the green monsters …

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Can Yahoo! UK’s Email Terms and Conditions Update Bind Third Parties?

July 19, 2011
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…rd party’s choice to use either the United States Postal Service or UPS to send a package; it’s a statement that no matter which shipment method you use, the management at the building where your parents live will search the package before it’s given to them. Since the third parties have no control over the address at which their parents live, or the policies of that building, they cannot opt out of anything to prevent the searc…

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Fine Print Friday: Facebook’s Service and Privacy Agreements

March 5, 2010

…der, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available information and are not able to be limited via your normal privacy settings. You can restrict the ability of people to find these things via search by going specifically to your search privacy settings, but these will not be addressed through the changes you make in your general profile information privacy settings. (PP, third bullet) 6. Transaction Information: …

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Google’s New Privacy Policy: What Does It Mean For You?

January 27, 2012
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…e device you are using, your location, the operating system you are using, and information from cookies, among other things. Of particular interest is the information gathered through server logs, which includes your specific searches, telephone call information (such as number, duration, carrier, etc.), your IP address, information about your device (including system activity and hardware settings), and cookies that identify your browser or Goog…

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Fine Print Friday: Google Terms of Service

April 1, 2011
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In the past 13 years, Google has thoroughly inserted itself into our lives. Between its search engine, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Desktop, Google Earth, Google Voice, and all its other fantastic (and free) products, Google has become indispensable in most of our lives. Concern is regularly expressed, though, about the access Google has to our personal information, content, confidential information (such as sensitive documents on Go…

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Fine Print Friday: Travelocity Airline Ticket Purchases

March 26, 2010

…t to the terms of both Travelocity and the airline from which they purchased their tickets. There are really two contracts at play in these situations: The customer agrees to the terms of Travelocity by using their service to search out and pay for the tickets, and the customer also agrees to the terms of the airline on which he or she will be traveling. This week I will look at the agreement made when a customer makes a purchase through Traveloc…

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